{"id":346745,"date":"2018-02-04T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/world-is-burning-while-western-left-is-quarrelling\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T07:41:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:41:34","slug":"world-is-burning-while-western-left-is-quarrelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/world-is-burning-while-western-left-is-quarrelling\/","title":{"rendered":"World is Burning while Western Left is Quarrelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It really is a shame, and it is tiring, but it is actually nothing new: there is now total disarray amongst those countless \u2018progressive\u2019 and \u2018semi-left\u2019 Western intellectuals, publications, movements and political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Cowardice, bloated egos, lack of discipline and intellectual pettiness are often to blame, but that is not all.<\/p>\n<p>It is now absolutely clear that the Western <em>left<\/em> lost patently and shamelessly. It has almost no power, it has no courage to fight or to take risks, and it counts on no real political following in Europe, North America, Australia or New Zealand. \u2018The masses\u2019, those proverbial \u2018oppressed masses\u2019, have lately been electing and voting in various semi-fascist populists, unapologetic right-wing demagogues, and mainstream pro-business brutes.<\/p>\n<p>Entire Marxist \u2018theoretical certainties\u2019 have been collapsing in front of our eyes. Or at least they have been in the West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>To a great extent, what is now happening is absolutely natural. The European <em>left<\/em> betrayed as early as in the 1980\u2019s, by becoming too soft, too undisciplined, too cautious and too self-centered. It put pragmatism above the ideals. It rapidly adopted the lexicon of the liberal ideological establishment, complete with Western perceptions of <em>human rights<\/em>, <em>democratic principles<\/em> and <em>political correctness<\/em>. It ceased to be revolutionary; it essentially stopped all revolutionary activities, and it abandoned the core element of any true left-wing identity \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/world-is-burning-while-western-left-is-quarrelling\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really is a shame, and it is tiring, but it is actually nothing new: there is now total disarray amongst those countless \u2018progressive\u2019 and \u2018semi-left\u2019 Western intellectuals, publications, movements and political parties. Cowardice, bloated egos, lack of discipline and intellectual pettiness are often to blame, but that is not all. It is now absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}