Why is the “left” left out of the truth tellers’ websites?
Why is the “left” left out of the truth tellers’ websites?
I have observed something fascinating over and over again when I am taken to websites in my search for truth that provide convincing details about the crimes taking place around the world, and specifically in the United States. The details that these sites provide are more accurate than those found on the liberal, or progressive, sites, even on those of the radical left.
Overall the analysis that these sites present is sound. But, when it comes to the traditional anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and anti-fascist traditions, we are informed up front that Marxism is dangerous and bankrupt, that socialism is an unmitigated failure, that Lenin was a paid agent of the Zionist bankers, and that Mao Zedong killed millions to satisfy his perverse need for domination.
The assumption in most cases is that anything from the “communist” tradition, from the socialists, is flawed and dangerous.
But, I ask, even if Lenin and Marx got so much wrong, can’t we still learn from them about how to organize people, how to plan a revolution? That would be, after all, the most scientific response, no? No one gets it all wrong and we should draw on all sources for ideas and inspirations as we go forward to create a great synthesis appropriate to this moment.
But that possibility is excluded from almost all of the conspiracy websites that give such valuable content.
At this point, I smell a rat!
These conspiracy sites are telling us what is wrong, but attributing it to ancient evils festering in the Vatican and smoldering among the Free Masons, to the conspiracies of the Zionist bankers and the evil rites of the devil worshippers.
The conclusion seems to be that there is nothing one can do but pray to Jesus for salvation. Nowhere do these sites help you to link up with others, or put together a platform to organize you into a unit capable of giving and carrying out orders. There is no command system offered and no instructions for how you can build one yourself.
The more I see of these conspiracy websites, the more convinced I am that they want you to dismiss Lenin, Mao and others from the start as “nonstarters” and that they want to make sure that you never, never, never, start reading their books, or figuring out how class, capital and ideology are linked, or learning how to motivate, to organize. and to lead working people in a mass struggle.
No, the protectors, perhaps the funders, maybe even the administrators, of so many of these oracles of truth seem to be under strict orders to make sure that no one figures out how to actually organize and carry out a revolution.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. The sin of Marx, in my opinion, is that he accepted capitalist extractive economics and only thought it should be better distributed. But his analysis is helpful. Mills also addressed class issues, so the discussion of class is not exclusively leftist. Rather we have just been deprived of a critical tool for analysis--made blind on purpose.
Hi, I'm a reader from Eastern Europe, and we share the same frustration with the Western alt media. It is a regular frustration, and not a small one, to witness otherwise perfectly intelligent and well-informed people throwing the baby with the bathwater when it comes to the old left and Marx in particular. *
Through the past two decades of regularly finding myself in a minority of one, one who doesn't perceive leftists or communists as evil incarnate, or Marx as an inverted Santa Claus, my reflections led me to this notion about what's it all about:
The strict organisation under which these people operate does exist, - and it is as large as society. First, one is born in a family in which all the adults have been subjected to anti-communist propaganda all their lives. Then, one tries to find their place among the peers, whose families have also been subjected to the same propaganda. Virtually everyone of your friends, potential friends and life partners, treats the matter as settled as that that the Earth rotates around the Sun. It must have become a part of the American folklore, just like the apple pie and the Christmas turkey. It's long ago moved from matters treated with reason, to matters of common taste, courtesy. The desire to conform can be more effective than a self-conscious system of controls.
Or, so runs the imagination of the author of these lines, who has never set foot in the Americas.
(*) There are, though, rare exceptions to the right's aversion to leftist ideas, and this one may owe its existence to ignorance of history : ) "freedom cells" https://www.freedomcells.com/
Regards,
D