Thesis: The right-left dichotomy is false because only the right exists.
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 4:16 pm
A short bit from Στενή Αυτοάμυνα @Obscureobjet that makes a good point
Thesis: The right-left dichotomy is false because only the right exists.
Explication: as right and left are categories inherited from the
French Revolution, and as this revolution is utterly irrelevant to monopoly capitalist society, their survival in that society presupposes
a regrounding on categories of relevance to its structure and issues. The right found this regrounding: it's called fascism. The left,
on the contrary, has been invested in a long term struggle to unground itself from communism. Therefore it is a category with no reverent.
Empirical demonstration: in 2010, the right wing of SYRIZA split from the party into DIMAR. However, this demonstrably didn't leave behind
a "left wing". Today, many former SYRIZA members denounce SYRIZA as right wing, but there's absolutely no reason why Varoufakis or Lafazanis
are more "left" than Tsipras. In short, once you remove the right from the "left" you find out that you got the right and the right.
Only within a genuinely communist movement can right, centre and left have meaning as categories. Outside it, they are utterly meaningless.
The above applies to societies fully subsumed within the structures of monopoly capital and should not be generalized globally.
The Latin American left, for example, has nothing to do with the farce that calls itself the left in Europe.
Thesis: The right-left dichotomy is false because only the right exists.
Explication: as right and left are categories inherited from the
French Revolution, and as this revolution is utterly irrelevant to monopoly capitalist society, their survival in that society presupposes
a regrounding on categories of relevance to its structure and issues. The right found this regrounding: it's called fascism. The left,
on the contrary, has been invested in a long term struggle to unground itself from communism. Therefore it is a category with no reverent.
Empirical demonstration: in 2010, the right wing of SYRIZA split from the party into DIMAR. However, this demonstrably didn't leave behind
a "left wing". Today, many former SYRIZA members denounce SYRIZA as right wing, but there's absolutely no reason why Varoufakis or Lafazanis
are more "left" than Tsipras. In short, once you remove the right from the "left" you find out that you got the right and the right.
Only within a genuinely communist movement can right, centre and left have meaning as categories. Outside it, they are utterly meaningless.
The above applies to societies fully subsumed within the structures of monopoly capital and should not be generalized globally.
The Latin American left, for example, has nothing to do with the farce that calls itself the left in Europe.