{"id":184405,"date":"2019-12-13T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184405"},"modified":"2019-12-17T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:28:59","slug":"why-the-left-is-dead-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=184405","title":{"rendered":"Why the \u2018Left\u2019 is Dead in the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Dec 13, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Introduction — Dec 13, 2019
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Following his party\u2019s catastrophic defeat, humiliated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced this morning that he would discuss with the party its need for a \u2018process of reflection\u2019 and promised that he himself \u201cwill lead the party during this period to ensure this discussion takes place.\u201d <\/strong><\/h5>\n
I will not hold my breath waiting for Labour to overcome its most acute problems. As a first step toward a recovery I would advise Corbyn and his caricature party that instead of <\/strong>suspending and expelling<\/strong><\/a><\/span> party members for reading yours truly, instead of <\/strong>expelling MPs<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for supporting my right to make <\/strong>a living as musician<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, or spending <\/strong>hundreds of thousands of taxpayer<\/strong><\/a><\/span>s<\/span> money trying to appease a<\/strong> foreign ardent right wing Lobby<\/span>.<\/strong><\/a>, the Labour partly\/hardly should instead make my work compulsory reading for its members and leadership. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
In this commentary from<\/strong> February 2019 <\/strong><\/a><\/span>I explain why the Left is dead in the water and why Corbyn\u2019s Labour is a symptom of the total disaster that is the contemporary Left. <\/strong><\/h5>\n

Why the \u2018Left\u2019 is Dead in the Water <\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Gilad Atzmon<\/strong> — Feb 28. 2019<\/h2>\n
It seems that there is not much left of the Left and what remains has nothing to do with \u2018Left.\u2019<\/h5>\n
\u00a0Contemporary \u00a0\u2018Left\u2019 politics is detached from its natural constituency, working people. The so called \u2018Left\u2019 is basically a symbolic identifier for \u2018Guardian readers\u2019 \u00a0a critical expression attributed to middle class people who, for some reason, claim to know what is good for the working class. How did this happen to the Left? Why was it derailed and by whom?<\/h5>\n
\u00a0Hierarchy is one answer. The capitalist and the corporate worlds operate on an intensely hierarchical basis. The path to leadership within a bank,\u00a0management of a globally trading company or even high command in the military is of an evolutionary nature. Such power is acquired by a challenging climb within an increasingly\u00a0\u00a0demanding system. It is all about the survival of the fittest. Every step entails new challenges. Failure at any step could easily result in a setback or even a career end. In the old good days, the Left also operated on a hierarchical system. There was a long challenging path from the local workers\u2019 union to the national party. But the Left is hierarchical no more.<\/h5>\n
\u00a0Left ideology, like working class politics, was initially the byproduct of the industrial revolution. It was born to address the needs and demands of a new emerging class; those who were working day and night to make other people richer.\u00a0 In the old days, when Left was a meaningful adventure, Left politicians grew out of workers\u2019 unions. Those who were distinguished in representing and improving the conditions of their fellow workers made it to the trade unions and eventually into the national parties. None of that exists anymore.<\/h5>\n
\u00a0In a world without manufacturing, the working class have been removed from the consumption chain and demoted into an \u2018under class.\u2019 The contemporary Left politician has nothing to do with the workless people let alone the workless class.\u00a0 The unions are largely defunct.\u00a0 You won\u2019t find many Labour politicians who have actually\u00a0worked in factories and mixed with working people for real. No contemporary Left politician including Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders is the product of a struggle through a highly demanding hierarchical system as such a system hasn\u2019t really existed within the Left \u00a0for at least four decades.<\/h5>\n
In most cases, the contemporary Left politician is a middle class university activist groomed through party politics activity. Instead of fighting for manufacturing and jobs, the Left has embraced the highly divisive identitarian battle.\u00a0 While the old Left tended to unite us by leading the fight against the horrid capitalists rather than worrying about\u00a0\u00a0whether you were a man or a woman, black or white, Jew or Muslim, gay or hetero, our present-day \u2018Left\u2019 actually promotes racial differences and divisions as it pushes people to identify with their biology (skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, Jewish maternal gene etc.) If the old Left united us against the capitalists, the contemporary \u2018Left\u2019 divides us and uses the funds it collects from capitalist foundations such as George Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute.<\/h5>\n
\u00a0The British Labour party is a prime example of this. It is deaf to the cry of the lower classes. It claims to care \u2018for the many\u2019 but in practice is only attentive to a few voices within the intrusive Israeli Lobby. As Britain is struggling with the crucial debate over Brexit, British Labour has been focused instead on spurious \u00a0allegations of \u2018antisemitsm.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0It is hard to see how any Left political body in the West even plans to bring more work to the people. The Left offers nothing in the way of a vision of a better society for all.\u00a0 It is impossible to find the Left within the contemporary \u2018Left.\u2019<\/h5>\n
\u00a0Why has this happened to the Left, why has it become irrelevant?\u00a0\u00a0Because by now the Left is a non-hierarchical system. It is an amalgam of uniquely ungifted people who made politics into their \u2018career.\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0Most Left politicians have never worked at a proper job where money is exchanged for merit, achievements or results.<\/strong>\u00a0The vast majority of Left politicians have never faced the economic\u00a0\u00a0challenges associated with the experience of being adults. Tragically such people can\u2019t lead a country, a city, a borough or even a village.<\/h5>\n
The Left had a mostly positive run for about 150 years. But its role has come to an end as the condition of being in the world has been radically transformed. The Left failed to adapt. It removed itself from the universal ethos.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The shift in our human landscape has created a desperate need for a new ethos: a fresh stand point that will reinstate the Western Athenian ethical and universal roots and produce a new canon that aspires for truth and truthfulness as opposed to the current cancerous tyranny of correctness.<\/h5>\n
My battle for truth and freedom involves \u00a0some expensive legal services. I hope that you will consider committing to a monthly donation in whatever amount you can give. Regular contributions will enable me to avoid being pushed against a wall and to stay on top of the endless harassment by Zionist operators attempting to silence me.<\/h5>\n
To assist Gilad with a donation scroll to the foot of the source page<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

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