The Post-Partisan Emporium

This is a three part article from 2017 that I came across today.  A few may object to some of his views, but he has an interesting analysis of how and why the old left, with it's emphasis on class, labor rights and economic fairness, was usurped by a new left based on identity politics and the cult of victimhood.  He also provides a decent explanation of what is meant by "Cultural Marxism", or what he calls "Biological Leninism". BIOLOGICAL LENINISM Part 1 It's 100 years now since the Russian Revolution. The Soviet Union. Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Leninism. It's been 100 years already, but you realize how present the whole thing remains when you look at the press these days. People are still praising or damning the revolution. As if it mattered anymore. As if it were something more than history. As if the left and right of today had remotely anything in common with the left and right of Lenin's day. I won't praise Lenin, an evil man. But great me...

Thanks to ozarkmichael for writing this essay... Lenin's Disdain: The 1920 pamphlet on the relationship between Communists and the Proletariat.     by OzarkMichael In 1917 the bold Putilov factory workers (whose strike in 1905 spread throughout the nation and almost toppled the Tzar twelve years earlier) went on strike for better working and living conditions. This 1917 strike helped start the Russian revolution, the eventual result of which was Lenin and his Bolshevik party seizing power.   Two years later, in 1919, even though the Bolsheviks have gained power, the working conditions were worse instead of better for the Putilov workers. They did not have enough food rations, so once again the bold Putilov factory workers went on strike. They wanted the same rations as Bolshevik party members, or at least as good as Red Army soldiers. In response Lenin ordered a massacre of the workers by his newly formed pet agency, the Cheka, so 200 workers were shot without trial pour ...