Left is the New Right is the New LeftMarx’s concept of a class struggle has been so influential that people don’t realize that sometimes those revolutionary classes won, and became ruling classes. And then in turn fought the subsequent revolutionary classes.
In fact, they often did.
This chapter from
The Network State helps explain so much of my political confusion when I compare the politics of today with that of 30 years ago. I may have to start calling Republicans the "left" and Democrats the "right".
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