I decided to delete the recent comments that I posted here concerning Chris Hedge’s article “Surrendering to Authoritarianism” in which I voiced a rather critical perspective.
Well, you could have left up the post. And, well, the broken PT Barnum, Indian Removal Program, Enslaved One Quarter Citizen Monroe Doctrine Crazed American Broken Clock might be right twice a day. Maybe.
Psychosis of Whiteness, or White Psychosis.
The White Man's House is full of the Minyans, and the Jews of the Kissinger ilk have persisted, in front and behind the curtains.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Chris is famous, a celeb, so, attacking him isn't attack his readers or followers.
Hedges talks about the cult of celebrity, so he'd be not so willing to attack his attackers, that is, those in digital ink.
But again, we use the word war when Jews in Israel bomb, strafe, raze, implode, by tank, air, ship, when it is s mowing of the lawn 10,000 fold.
i have noticed that there are 2 kinds of leftists, mainstream middle class bourgeoise leftists and radical revolutionary leftists. The mainstream middle class bourgeoise leftists hate the oligarchy, hate both parties Democrats and Republicans, hate wars, are against zionism, racism, and oppression but some reason they are not in favor of a full communist-socialist government, a dictatorship of the proletariat, a violent radical overthrow of the whole US government, the US constitution and every thing that USA is right now to be totally changed by a sort of Soviet USA (A workers state).
I think that the reason why the mainstream left (Counterpunch.org, Chris Hedges, Democracy Now, Alternet, Thom Hartmann, The Young Turks, David Pakman, TomDispatch, Jeffery St. Clair, Noam Chomsky, The Nation Magazine, The Green Party, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Matt Taibi, etc) is not in favor of a radical change, is because i might think that most mainstream left organizations are funded by businesses, by local businesses (that even might not be part of the oligarchy) but those businesses that fund the mainstream left wouldn't want to see a full communist USA. So that's why some marxists call them "The Middle Class Left"
And then the radical left (Anarchists, marxists, trotskists, marxist-leninists, maoists etc) are all in favor of a radical change, (usually outside of elections), most radical leftists are impossibilists (meaning that social programs like medicare, medicaid and food-stamps do not lead to an 100% socialist system (a workers state) (a a system where poor and working people have power and the wealth of society is used in a planned and sustainable way to meet people’s needs.)
So that's why I try to read Chris Hedges articles but with a grain of salt. I try to be as radical as I can, i even support the anarchist-communist ideology of Proudhom, Kropotkin, Emman Goldman, Bakunin etc Because anarchists are correct in claiming that governments states have been invented with the specific objective of producing wealth for a tiny minority, while enslaving the majority. That's the real objective of governments (most people are not aware of that)
But even within the radical left (Trotskists, marxists, stalinists) there are many problems, sectarianism.
For instance i like to read the articles of the trotskist radical left website World Socialist Website, http://www.wsws.org they also have a party (Socialist Equality Party of USA) but for some reason I don't like them too much, they suffer from an excess of sectarianism, perfectionism, fundamentalism, arrogance, selfishness, etc. And real leftist, a real communist should be just like Jesus Christ (The best socialist of all time)
From my own point I think Emmanuel Pastreich is a lot more humble, and more close to the ideology of Jesus Christ than many mainstream leftists and than many radical leftists.
Humility, loving others more than your own self should be part of the behaviour pattern of every socialist, communist anti-individualism, anti-Trump activist
I think that the USA needs a sort of United Christian Front of salvation led by Emmanuel Pastreich with poor right-wingers betrayed by Trump and poor left-wingers and poor people in general, as an electoral option for the 2028 elections. But there is too much sectarianism in the left, and too much group-narcissism
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. With a Catholic mother and Jewish father, I do not present myself as Christian-nevertheless there is no doubt that spirituality, and prayer, is central in my own personal life. But for the most part, I do not discuss such matters. We need to be more human. The best I can do is to focus on making myself just a little bit better--even if I cannot escape from the class background, and the historical context, I was born into.
Indeed, the philosopher Nietzsche claimed that Jesus Christ was the original founder of socialism, and socialism, is literally the ideological son of christianity, and that the New Testament is a socialist manifesto. Most modern christians are not aware of the real origins of Jesus and Christianity, because I think that Jesus and The Bible has been expropiated and kidnapped by the right-wing, the capitalist oligarchic oppressors
Has something happened to make you take off some of the hard edges. For better or worse, you seem to be adopting more of a live and let live approach to things.
This is an error on your part. Hedges is an unrepentant medical tyrant. If you'd like to rewrite the commentary with more evidence than this column, by all means do so, but Hedges has said much that he needs to be held accountable for as a thought leader.
Frankly, I was 'ok' with your initial commentary but...I have to admit to a purist's view of many of these talking heads. Ignoring certain earth-shattering events (Israel Palestine/genocide/nine-one-one, etc.) are big red flags for me. You named some names- and I wholly agree with you pointing them out- there are others in the broader world (global) of journalism, as I am sure you know.
I will NEVER (!) bend, however, to the 'nobody's perfect' mantra that seems to be making the rounds in 'thoughtful' conversations these days. Hedges is one among many- Chomsky another and on and on and on.
Hedges definitely took on the mission of Chomsky to run interference for the Israel Lobby while seeking to maintain credibility by maintaining a gatekeeping approach. Chomsky's book about 9/11 was an extension of his downplaying the Kennedy assassination. Hedges avoids getting drawn into 9/11 realities as if his life depends on it. Emanuel readily goes there up to a point. The interactions between Netanyahu's core involvement in both the COVID and Palestinians slaughters is something I think current that needs some highlighting. Hedges is pretty much like an old codger set in his ways and it is rare that he says anything original and surprising these days.
Well, you could have left up the post. And, well, the broken PT Barnum, Indian Removal Program, Enslaved One Quarter Citizen Monroe Doctrine Crazed American Broken Clock might be right twice a day. Maybe.
Psychosis of Whiteness, or White Psychosis.
The White Man's House is full of the Minyans, and the Jews of the Kissinger ilk have persisted, in front and behind the curtains.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Chris is famous, a celeb, so, attacking him isn't attack his readers or followers.
Hedges talks about the cult of celebrity, so he'd be not so willing to attack his attackers, that is, those in digital ink.
But again, we use the word war when Jews in Israel bomb, strafe, raze, implode, by tank, air, ship, when it is s mowing of the lawn 10,000 fold.
Psychosis of whiteness is puritanical and judaic.
And so here we are:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/trump-niggerized-blacks-and-the-anal
I enjoyed that article.
i have noticed that there are 2 kinds of leftists, mainstream middle class bourgeoise leftists and radical revolutionary leftists. The mainstream middle class bourgeoise leftists hate the oligarchy, hate both parties Democrats and Republicans, hate wars, are against zionism, racism, and oppression but some reason they are not in favor of a full communist-socialist government, a dictatorship of the proletariat, a violent radical overthrow of the whole US government, the US constitution and every thing that USA is right now to be totally changed by a sort of Soviet USA (A workers state).
I think that the reason why the mainstream left (Counterpunch.org, Chris Hedges, Democracy Now, Alternet, Thom Hartmann, The Young Turks, David Pakman, TomDispatch, Jeffery St. Clair, Noam Chomsky, The Nation Magazine, The Green Party, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Matt Taibi, etc) is not in favor of a radical change, is because i might think that most mainstream left organizations are funded by businesses, by local businesses (that even might not be part of the oligarchy) but those businesses that fund the mainstream left wouldn't want to see a full communist USA. So that's why some marxists call them "The Middle Class Left"
And then the radical left (Anarchists, marxists, trotskists, marxist-leninists, maoists etc) are all in favor of a radical change, (usually outside of elections), most radical leftists are impossibilists (meaning that social programs like medicare, medicaid and food-stamps do not lead to an 100% socialist system (a workers state) (a a system where poor and working people have power and the wealth of society is used in a planned and sustainable way to meet people’s needs.)
So that's why I try to read Chris Hedges articles but with a grain of salt. I try to be as radical as I can, i even support the anarchist-communist ideology of Proudhom, Kropotkin, Emman Goldman, Bakunin etc Because anarchists are correct in claiming that governments states have been invented with the specific objective of producing wealth for a tiny minority, while enslaving the majority. That's the real objective of governments (most people are not aware of that)
But even within the radical left (Trotskists, marxists, stalinists) there are many problems, sectarianism.
For instance i like to read the articles of the trotskist radical left website World Socialist Website, http://www.wsws.org they also have a party (Socialist Equality Party of USA) but for some reason I don't like them too much, they suffer from an excess of sectarianism, perfectionism, fundamentalism, arrogance, selfishness, etc. And real leftist, a real communist should be just like Jesus Christ (The best socialist of all time)
From my own point I think Emmanuel Pastreich is a lot more humble, and more close to the ideology of Jesus Christ than many mainstream leftists and than many radical leftists.
Humility, loving others more than your own self should be part of the behaviour pattern of every socialist, communist anti-individualism, anti-Trump activist
I think that the USA needs a sort of United Christian Front of salvation led by Emmanuel Pastreich with poor right-wingers betrayed by Trump and poor left-wingers and poor people in general, as an electoral option for the 2028 elections. But there is too much sectarianism in the left, and too much group-narcissism
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. With a Catholic mother and Jewish father, I do not present myself as Christian-nevertheless there is no doubt that spirituality, and prayer, is central in my own personal life. But for the most part, I do not discuss such matters. We need to be more human. The best I can do is to focus on making myself just a little bit better--even if I cannot escape from the class background, and the historical context, I was born into.
Indeed, the philosopher Nietzsche claimed that Jesus Christ was the original founder of socialism, and socialism, is literally the ideological son of christianity, and that the New Testament is a socialist manifesto. Most modern christians are not aware of the real origins of Jesus and Christianity, because I think that Jesus and The Bible has been expropiated and kidnapped by the right-wing, the capitalist oligarchic oppressors
Has something happened to make you take off some of the hard edges. For better or worse, you seem to be adopting more of a live and let live approach to things.
Enjoyed your commentary. Dream on!
COVID-19 Military Operation in a bio- weapon Nutshell
https://open.substack.com/pub/sashalatypova/p/the-covid-dossier-updated-a-record?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
This is an error on your part. Hedges is an unrepentant medical tyrant. If you'd like to rewrite the commentary with more evidence than this column, by all means do so, but Hedges has said much that he needs to be held accountable for as a thought leader.
I think Chris Hedges is a CIA tool. I have no respect whatsoever for him at this point. You should not have retracted your critical assessment of him.
Frankly, I was 'ok' with your initial commentary but...I have to admit to a purist's view of many of these talking heads. Ignoring certain earth-shattering events (Israel Palestine/genocide/nine-one-one, etc.) are big red flags for me. You named some names- and I wholly agree with you pointing them out- there are others in the broader world (global) of journalism, as I am sure you know.
I will NEVER (!) bend, however, to the 'nobody's perfect' mantra that seems to be making the rounds in 'thoughtful' conversations these days. Hedges is one among many- Chomsky another and on and on and on.
Hedges definitely took on the mission of Chomsky to run interference for the Israel Lobby while seeking to maintain credibility by maintaining a gatekeeping approach. Chomsky's book about 9/11 was an extension of his downplaying the Kennedy assassination. Hedges avoids getting drawn into 9/11 realities as if his life depends on it. Emanuel readily goes there up to a point. The interactions between Netanyahu's core involvement in both the COVID and Palestinians slaughters is something I think current that needs some highlighting. Hedges is pretty much like an old codger set in his ways and it is rare that he says anything original and surprising these days.
Beautifully expressed! Thank you.