From Darwiniana, Reverse gear dialectic….
In the middle of all the pundit comparisons to the era of FDR and the great depression, it is forgotten that that period had a behind the scenes driver in the surging left, the second to third Internationale, what to say of Boshevism soon to be Stalinism. The contemporary scene has nothing of the kind, except the echo of now failed leftist ideologies.
Public discussion of socialism ought to be a constant in liberal societies. Instead it has been so discredited by its Marxist hijackers that public discussion of issues suffers.
Lenin’s Tomb links to an historical materialism conference, with all the usual recombinations of jargon and refuted, or challenged theory.
These statements are not knee-jerk left bashing, merely the observation that there is no real left in our time-frame. The fall of communism should have led to a thorough critique of what went wrong, and yet still almost thirty years later Marxism chugs along, blocking a new left, and taking up the energy needed for a defining left.