Notes On Contemporary Politics

[poliphilo]

1. I have it on what seems to be the best authority that the Russians had nothing to do with hacking the US election but- what the hell- people will believe what they want to believe.

2. Funny how  "fake news" is always what the other side puts out.

3. The word "fascist" should be struck from the political lectionary. Fascism was a political movement of the inter-war years.  Calling  a modern politician a fascist is just another way of living in the past and avoiding engagement with what's really going on.

5. Boris Johnson said some truthful things about Saudi Arabia and was dumped on by his boss- which tells you all you need to know about the bred-in-the-bone wickedness of government.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We need to develop a new political vocabulary. The old terms- left, right, conservative, socialist, fascist, Marxist- no longer apply.

[matrixmann]

I don't think that's the point, they still suit pretty well.
But, what I think needs to be reconsidered: That politically "left" always equals "politics made for the people". That's not right. On the left side, what is considered deeply as "left" these days in mainstream understanding, it's just another class of corrupted elite that learn and teach at their universities, NGOs and advocate groups whatever they want, even if it doesn't suit real circumstances anymore.
You don't have the classic movement of the workers anymore in their place that works for the interests of those and for the interests of the poor which have no lobby.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The old parties of the left were rooted in an organised, industrial working class that no longer exists.

[matrixmann]

But the poor, the sick and the rejected still remain.