So what’s the ultra far left?

by nemo on August 31, 2008

The premise of this blog is to look at the question of ideology, theory, and politics in the light of the eonic effect, whose mainline theme is the correlation of emergent liberalism in the early modern. It is an opportunity to reexamine the emergence of modern freedom in the light of a new kind of historical theory, and in that context the sudden shift to the far left in the nineteenth century has a documentary significance for that study.

The ‘ultra far left’ is simply the ‘left shift’ visible in the dynamics of modernism. After the spectacular failures of the revolutionary left via Leninism it is appropriate to simply move with the ‘left shift’, instead of regressing backwards, or rehashing the stale and almost defunct ideology of Marxism. It is useful to see the ‘ultra far left’ as an integration from the far past to the far future, and beyond that to nature of ideology in the context of the whole of civilization, with a question about the future.

Thus, the ‘ultra far left’ is left of Old Marx/Engels, it seems, but has at first no real meaning.

It is useful to reexamine Marxist theory (and liberal philosophies of history) to see where it goes wrong, on theory. On practice, the left of the nineteenth century performed a world historical task in its embrace of working class movements. So it is the philosophy of history, certainly no science, that animates Marxism that needs a closer look.

So the ultra far left is so far left one begins to see Zoroastrian halos around one’s lightbulbs in dinky working class flats.

Perhaps we will have to settle for better bibilography.

You can call off the Feds, plots against the dot.gove are turned off by default til furthe notice.

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