I'm an Individualist Libertarian otaku who is pansexual! One liberating aspect of “leaving the left” is realizing how self-isolated people in radical left politics truly are (talk about esoteric!). It was not aimed at altering the minds of other people or persuading them to act differently. You know, the more I think about it, the more hypocritical every word that flows from your keyboard becomes. Anarchists–at least anarcho-syndicalists and anarcho-communists–were overwhelmingly supportive of the Bolsheviks, even after Berkman’s and Goldman’s writings were published. Bookchin, Dolgoff and Peirats wrote their books to make a political point, which is fine. From this brief exchange it’s obvious that neither one of us is going to change the other’s opinion so that isn’t my point. They are certainly relevant to people on the ground in those countries but the impact here is insignificant outside of the rad-left. Yes, the radical left’s thinking (like almost everything else) has taken a nose-dive since 9-11. • Ideology is ‘an interrelated set of ideas that in some way guides or inspires political action’ (Heywood, 2002) • ‘An ideology is … Oddly, over at my blog, the semi-colon has aroused one of the more vigorous debates it’s seen in a while. Like I said: The problem with the old “hard left” was a surfeit of ideology. I’m sure you’re aware that most working-class folks have no interest in living the squatter/fregan lifestyle. Lots of land has been liberated from the cattle oligarchy in Chiapas, and the seizure of peasant lands for airports, golf courses, computer centers and the like has been effectively halted by Zapatista-inspired local insurrections elsewhere in Mexico. Libertarians are beloved of charts that place individuals and ideologies along two intersecting axes: left/right and libertarian/authoritarian. Whether they know it or not, people use political ideas and concepts whenever they express their opinions or speak their mind. 3.3: Political Ideologies. Of course the farms and factories were forcibly expropriated from the capitalists, and I wholeheartedly support this. Polcompball (246 Ideologies) Türk Siyasi Partileri. The CNT did engage in forced collectivization and other unsavory methods–including forced labor. After all, I didn’t mention anything about useful idiots or fellow travelers. Lecture: Comparison of Political Ideologies Begin this chart as we introduce the contemporary U.S. ideologies. Main article: Anarchism. Fascinating discussionFascinating comment thread! You are painting with pretty broad strokes there, buddy. Woo-hoo! The globalization elite have arguably (though perhaps not entirely—still no MAI!) Doubts were raised in anarchist groups in Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, France, and Italy. 1. The Bookchin text is practically a hagiography. Look at how people labeled you in the recent Ron Paul post. I’m an Orwell fan too. (Note correct spelling, BTW.)”. What is ideology? http://brockley.blogspot.com/2007/10/folk-music-folk-music-trad-jazz-and.html Political commentators and pundits. Then hop on a plane to Chiapas or Venezuela or the World Social Forum so you can play revolutionary! The flirtation with the likes of Ron Paul, Slobodan Milosevic, clerical jihadism—all exponents of the right—indicate that what we today call the “radical left” isn’t really. For example, an individual may be considered “conservative” on foreign policy issues and “liberal” on domestic issues. How to read? As Hayek argued, “The recognition of property is clearly the first step in the delimitation of the private sphere which protects us against coercion.”. No problemWorld War 4 Report is almost a one-man operation (me being the man), tho not quite. Presidents of the United States. Normally, we would start with vocabulary, but in essence, the ideologies are the vocabulary of 3.3, so let us look at the ideologies. This is evident by the sources they each use. Share. The Euston Manifesto is a mire of self-important, muddle-headed equivocation. As far as the anarchists and rad-lefties speaking out against Dolgoff and the Cuban libertarians all I can say is look at the man’s papers. My fascist scale is: 2.8 . WORLD IDEOLOGIES EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS FEUDALISM You have two cows. Another thing to consider is the Spanish cause was not incredibly popular among anarchists outside of Spain. But this didn’t happen. Collective noun for the ideologies which demand the redistribution of political power and economic leadership to the 'common people'. Right represents Capitalism. In both cases we are talking about political goals that will not be realized in either of our lives. I suggest that you brush upI suggest that you brush up on paying more attention to content. That’s one of the main reasons the numbers of international anarchist volunteers pales in comparison to those the Communists. Again, this should be painfully obvious. How you interpret this information is up to you. Equivocating on that may be very fashionable right now, but it is precisely what opens the door to the populist right’s attempted leveraged buy-out of what’s left of the left. The most popular is the Nolan Chart, which uses the terms “liberal/conservative” and “libertarian/statist.” (You can place yourself on the Nolan Chart with this “World’s Smallest Political Quiz.”) The above chart, designed by Mitchell Halberstadt in the San Francisco Bay Area, is in my opinion superior, allowing the viewer to place him or herself more precisely. Plus, when you actually start to examine positions on specific issues things get more muddled. Many small municipalities now have the legal right to self-government in their own languages and according to their own traditions across Mexico—something that was unheard-of before the Zapatista uprising. In short, he was acting out a fantasy. Yes, on the one hand CNT militants certainly resisted Communist attempts at destroying the anarchist collectives. Copy link. This ideological filter provided a great deal of clarity and order and made the analysis of events fairly simple (capitalism and imperialism are to blame!). - Has two dimensions and that is he goals and methods, where with every desired goal there is a corresponding method. Idiot Left, &cAt one time, our politics would have been very close but I’m much less prone to placing the primary emphasis for the world’s problems on capitalism these days. But above all they circulated the DDG in all of the libertarian milieus to which they had access, in this manner creating confusion first and doubt later in regard to the MLCE…. And apart from muddle-headed quasi-anarchists like the Yippies (much as I love ’em), who are these supposed anarchists who uncritically embraced Fidel? A system predicated on limitless growth cannot be sustained on a planet of limited resources. I smell revisionismI know you weren’t intending to be ironic. As NC says, there have always been plenty of idiots on the left who have gone along with reactionaries and totalitarians. So, a liberal government does not usually practice socialism, nor does an absolute ruler follow liberalism. Rococco Left is a good term – for those of you who don’t know what Rococo means, the first image google throws up is this one of a cock and balls, which is pretty apt – basically it’s overblown, decorative, baroque. View Ideologies Chart.pdf from SOCI 4320 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. In contrast to your portrayal, the above-mentioned movements have been effective, largely untainted by apocalyptic nihilism, and for the most part working-class or subaltern in their composition. For those on the outside, we can see how pointless the behavior is. 2 8 Randian Anarcho-Capitalism/Friedmanite Anarcho-Capitalism. CHAPTER 2 Political Ideas and Ideologies ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point is to change it.’ KARL MARX, Theses on Feuerbach(1845) PREVIEW All people are political thinkers. Why this is the case is an interesting question to ponder. Now, there are true progressive thinkers who post here from time to time and I have already learne3d to enjoy their posts, many of which are completely contrary to my personal philosophies. Most of the current examples you provided were international (Zapatistas, etc.) It’s from Frank Fernandez’ Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement: http://www.ainfos.ca/04/feb/ainfos00400.html. You call yourself “progressive” and an “anarchist” among other “rebellious” terms to tout your credentials as fighting for the rights of this group or that group, but all I am seeing from you is “I’m right and you are wrong, and you are an oppressive sack of shit if you don’t go along with me.”. If you think this website represents the “dimwitted homogeneous status quo,” you’re pretty far out in right field. However, I have a bit of dyslexia when it comes to single letters and dobule letters, and I blogspot isn’t very good for spell-checking! But when you’re in the mix, it really seems like marching with cool puppets or running a zine library is making a big difference in the struggle for social change. It’s all there for you to see with your own eyes. Dolgoff was far and away a lone voice in the wilderness. In your case I suspect you see the political tendency you identify with abandoning its principles and behaving in a reactionary manner (or something along those lines). In some cases (JG, thanks for the engaging debate) that was what I found. They didn’t do too badly at the Edinburgh G8 summit in ’05, and we’ll see how they do Hokkaido this year. Profile intro set to be updated soon eventually! Polquiz. The Political Compass test placed me deep within the “libertarian left” field, as I anticipated. (I only use the past tense because now they are legal homesteaders.) But as I grew older and acquired more knowledge I began to see the first two books for what they are, polemic rather than history. By participating in a violent anti-war demonstration, he was in no sense aiming at coercing conformity with his view — for that would still have been a political objective. But in all the examples you cite, there were significant libertarian-left dissident currents that didn’t go along with the totalitarian bullshit. He reasoned that virtually all human political action can be … In other words, Seidman did original research, in archives, to come to his conclusions. What I saw as a political act was not, for my friend, any such thing. That’s what makes Seidman’s book different from these three and in many ways superior. Political Ideologies - Generally refer to a set of ideals, principles, institution , or large group that explains how society should work, and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order. In either case they can both be assigned somewhere along a political compass, but really environmentalism and religiosity (plus no doubt other values) need their own axis to be expressed meaningfully. totalitarian system that persecuted, imprisoned, and shot their Cuban comrades.. I still hold a great deal of affinity for the classical anarchists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The 2003 Aymara uprising in Bolivia got that atrocious gas pipeline canceled. When you look at the behavior and slander of the broader radical Left, the treatment he received was shameful. That’s the sad part. When “centrism” and “moderation” mean ending welfare (“as we know it”), getting us into NAFTA and the WTO, and bombing foreign countries, I prefer to remain a radical, thanks—or I would, if all these idiots weren’t giving the word a bad name. On the anti-Stalinist left tradition you both point to – Bookchin, Dolgoff, Orwell, Goldman, etc: I’m not sure it helps to claim EITHER that it was so totally marginal as to be the exception that proves the rule of the left’s accomodation to totalitarianism OR that it was a big and robust enough movement to absolve the left of this charge (to stereotype both your views). I’ve listed them all below, so you don’t have to be confused by the chart. Political Ideology: Crash Course Government and Politics #35. Get over the spelling/grammar thing. https://www.dummies.com/.../quick-definitions-of-political-ideologies-the-isms Its whole point was what it did for him. That’s why I call it the “idiot left,” though pseudo-left might be even more accurate. Anarchism. Dionne, Jr., chapter 10, “Politics Without Government: The Rebirth of Libertarianism”, page 277 There are four sets of beliefs (political ideologies) held by Americans. Hence the rush to support Ron Paul, or the casual acceptance of Lyndon LaRouche originated conspiracy theories in the left public sphere, or the number of leftist websites which link to the paleocon antiwar.com, or the support for far right groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, etc etc etc. You can find most of these ideologies on Polcompball Wiki but here's a brief rundown on the bottom tier; INGSOC: A fictional ideology based on 'The Party' in George Orwell's 1984. That places me in the “libertarian left” category but just barely. Not intended to be ironicThose examples were not intended to be ironic. Breadtube / Breadtube adjacent. But I need to admit the New Centrist is a one-man operation. These days anarchism—-and radical politics in general-—is largely the domain of college students and the middle-class. It can be viewed as … Egoism. I considered myself a pluralist when I was an anarchist but I was pluralist in my openness to other forms of anarchism: individualist, mutualist, collectivist, syndicalist, communist, etc. The folks at New Centrist argue that Ron Paul is not truly libertarian but “paranoid populist”—a distinct “style in American politics” first identified by Richard Hofstadter. It’s because we know a dead end when we see it and that dead end is found on the radical lefitst road not the capitalist road. So I see “communitarianism” and “individualism” as being fundamentally united, not opposed. The squatters here on the Lower East Side in the ’80s got the Tompkins Square curfew rescinded for three years at least, and held back the wave of gentrification long enough for many of them to get the homes they carved out of abandoned housing stock through their own labor legally recognized. Is centrism the answer? But filtering information in according to this lens inevitably meant a lot of important information was getting filtered out. American workers by and large *did* learn the lessons of Russia and Spain and Cuba. It is ridiculous to equate Fidel with Stalin (however much the former may emulate the latter). All these (anarchist) scholars explicitly say the collectivizations were not forced, and that those who chose to work a small parcel as “individualists” were permitted to do so. And what it did for him was to provide him with a fantasy — a fantasy, namely, of taking part in the revolutionary struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. It is true the movement never quite equalled the power and effectiveness of Seattle, but big mobilizations continued at every globalization summit at least through the Genoa G8 summit in the summer of ’01. in the United States. You yourself have ironically cited the late anarchist Sam Dolgoff’s work documenting repression of independent labor militants in Castro’s Cuba. The former used illegal coercion to initiate collectives, and the latter used it to destroy them.” (126) (see Michael Seidman Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War. I went through a period of this and eventually “left the left.”, Idiot-left is good. SOCIALISM You have two cows. As to debating the (de)merits of the centrist label I’m certainly open to discussion. Why Rococo? Things aren’t working out the way you want at home? I like “trad left” too (see here: http://brockley.blogspot.com/2007/10/folk-music-folk-music-trad-jazz-and.html. 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