Chapter 22, Part B, Reactions and Consequences.

Copyright (c), 2024, Thomas P. Kratman, Harry Kitchener

We talked briefly above about potential responses by the Left to an RWDS campaign, whether centralized or self-starting. We will explore this in more detail below, but it is probably worth noting that the US Left is actually no such thing. It is a divisive, self-hating, chaotic phenomenon, built on an ideology formed by tenured professors and largely espoused by upper-middle-class (in US terms, i.e. not working class), White people from the professional classes (with some representation from equally upper-middle-class persons of color). It is in no way a mass movement and it is hard to imagine anyone giving their lives in battle for, say, trans rights or CRT.

Compare and contrast with what Harry (who is, with Tom, a massive Lenin fanboy in a practical, albeit not a philosophical, sense) is pleased to call ‘proper Leftism’. This, whether Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist or even Maoist, *is* a mass movement. It is organized, disciplined, views the whole as greater than the individual and does enthuse the broad mass; it does encourage its adherents to identify what they have in common, what interests they share and how to seek advantage for the disadvantaged. It has mobilized the masses, fought – hard – for its beliefs and has, at its core, a desire for equality, for – to coin a phrase – helping the helpless, feeding the starving, clothing the naked and defending the defenseless. It strives towards a society without enormous disparities of income and accommodation, without unemployment and homelessness and which gives due respect to labor and the laborer, as well as to the writer, the artist and the professional.

It doesn’t work, of course, it never has, but it’s hugely romantic and, above all, honest – as opposed to the niminy-piminy, irritating and offensive maunderings of what calls itself the Left nowadays.