Might have been simpler just to say, "old left" But "Old Left" is already taken, as is "New Left." Branko Milanovic's conception of "paleo-left" is somewhat different from "Old Left," which focuses on economic issues than the "New Left," which focuses on social justice issues. If you are interested in the Left, the post is worth reading. In the US, the political meaning of "left" is Democratic Party and it's factions, liberal and progressive. Progressive is supposedly "far left," but in terms of world politics it is center-left, while liberal is center-right. There is no genuine left in the US on the political spectrum. Even the actual socialists are mostly history in American politics, whereas there was an American socialist party at one time. Although it still exists, it hasn't run a presidential candidate since 1956.
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What is a paleo-left agenda?
Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality, senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
He's referring to the Alternative Left.
ReplyDeleteTheir Facebook page is still up:
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America does not have a far left movement.
ReplyDeleteOur far-right are Fascists.
Our center-right are extremist nationalists.
Our center-left are classical conservatives.
Our far-left are moral centrist moderates.
Any objective political compass would place politicians like Sanders or Warren barely left of center.
A real far-leftist movement would be advocating for forced property seizure of the Capitalist Ruling class by the Working class.
Instead our far-left is like "don't let people die in medical poverty, please"
A paleo-left agenda is simply leftism without "woke" excrement.
ReplyDeleteToday the excrement rules.
To its critics, they are referred to as the dirtbag left.
ReplyDelete^ Woke critics
ReplyDelete"If you are interested in the Left"
ReplyDeleteNope, there's nothing more off-putting than polluting yourself with an extinction cult.