re: #108 Sharmuta

I’d point out that any real opposition to these guys has to come from the Right.

Consider the case this way - mainstream political movements can tolerate wide diversity of opinion and still serve as cohesive expressions of political tendencies of their nations. Revolutionary movements, however, cannot; by their very nature, they seek to overthrow the order of things, and so their participation in non-revolutionary politics must be understood merely as a sort of tactical move, a way to get their foot in the door.

The American left dealt with the revolutionaries on its fringes by largely taming and co-opting them, to the extent that former bomb-tossers and anarchists are now the subject of a certain amount of hagiography and even a sort of sly and ironic idolization (witness the Che shirts, the iconography harking back to Mao et al). The American left now faces revolutionaries on its right flank. What will be done with and about them is yet to be seen.