Well, Cait has her comments box up again, maybe for awhile this time, so I will do a comment. One thing about her, she gets into topics that are actually worth commenting about.

I am concerned with the last two paragraphs in this article. That is, about how any “left” movement always seems distracted; disrupted from outside by obvious secret police operations, and from within by all the mentally unstable nutcases whom people do not think they have the right to tell to shut up and get lost.

I am going to write much more fulsomely about this sometime soon. There is so much to write about now, I have limited energy and I have a lot of other stuff going on in my life at the moment. My thesis will be that all this problem with left movements is from the lack of a plot. People have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.

This is ultimately a problem with the revolutionary left, going back to the old time Marxists. They are totally focussed on overthrowing capitalism, but do not know what they are going to replace it with. This is the big error of Marxism; we just eliminate capitalism and we’ll wing it from there.

No, you have to have fully worked out what you are going to put in place of the old order. When you have this straight you will understand how to actually overthrow capitalism, permanently. I believe that most of the internal and external disruption will also disappear. Police infiltrators will immediately ‘out’ themselves and look ridiculous.

What is exciting about these times is that the ideas for a post capitalist world are now there. It just needs some people to put it together into a coherent program. This was what was missing back in the 1970s; will people grasp it now?

This is what interests me and repels me about Cait. She is like the 1970s over again. All that has to happen is that everybody becomes all beautiful and spiritual and mindful and so on, and everything will happen magically. It didn’t work.

People soon get tired of things that do not go anywhere. The forces of darkness regrouped and got part of the ‘flower powers’ to buy into neoliberalism. And so we got the 1980s and all that followed.

Enough said. tr