The reality is that if there weren’t such large swathes of the Western Left that were willing to embrace chauvinism and social-democratism and betray the international working class, no amount of repression would have succeeded in eliminating the real revolutionaries and so thoroughly suppressing class consciousness.
I wouldn’t consider those people to be of the “left”. They’re liberal reformists at best.
“left” and “right” are just relative terms, their meaning depends on the status quo.
In the US not hunting homeless people for sport is already progressive, thus “left”. Does that mean all yankee “leftists” are some kind of socialist? No.
I wouldn’t consider those people to be of the “left”. They’re liberal reformists at best.
“left” and “right” are just relative terms, their meaning depends on the status quo.
In the US not hunting homeless people for sport is already progressive, thus “left”. Does that mean all yankee “leftists” are some kind of socialist? No.