Daily Archives: April 4, 2012  The Left Which is Not One, Part
3, Part 1: Anarcho-liberals, Liberal Reactionaries, Neo-
Keynesian Pseudo-Leftists, and Occupy  These consist of two
conversations held between “communists” (of a few different
varieties, Marxist and Non-Marxist) about Occupy. I have edited
them and changed some names to pen-names. I, however, am not
altering the arguments. My own gloss is that while I thought
Occupy was a movement of hope, my fears that the left wouldn’t
not take it’s inevitable failure as a wake-up call to break with
a lot of the prior models of politics and offer a real political
alternative seems to have been confirmed. That said a lot of the
“self-critiques of Occupy” but its left-liberal all-stars are
vapid.  The participants in this discussion range from British
Trotskyists who lived in China for a while to Iranian American
Syndicalists to heterodox Canadian Marxist to American Zizekian
scholars to American expatriate living in Asia and Europe. All
of us have some first hand