Monday, September 14, 2020

The mainstreaming of David North


So I've been reading World Socialist Web Site, the publication of David North's "Socialist Equality Party", formerly known as the Workers League. For decades, the Northites were considered to be one of the crazier outfits on the far left, even a borderline cult. However, I noticed something strange when I browsed their web zine...

The SEP claims that Trump is "fascistic", the worst president in US history, that he is preparing to launch a civil war, and wants to end democracy. The COVID pandemic is painted in apocalyptic colors. The SEP supports the lockdowns. Climate change is another apocalypse. The Northites support the BLM protests (or Antifa riots). The Trump supporter in Kenosha who killed two criminal Antifas in self-defense is called a "murderer", while the anarchist in Portland who murdered a Trump supporter in cold blood is apparently a hero. 

Yes, you got it. *The Northites sound like any other leftist or liberal*. The hysterical cult has gone mainstream! 

OK, maybe not entirely. In contrast to other heroes of the color revolution, the SEP doesn't support Biden. They don't even support Sanders. Instead, they have their own presidential candidates. They are also opposed to "identity politics", the 1619 Project and toppling Lincoln's statues. In addition, they take a hysterical line internationally, as well. Apparently, Boris Johnson is "fascistic", while Justin Trudeau secretely cooperates with the far right?! 

Even so, I must say that the mainstreaming of the International Committee of the Fourth International and their traditional doom-mongering feels so 2020! 


6 comments:

  1. Men i denna recension lyckades North faktiskt ganska så bra. Recensionen var övertygande. Så övertygade att när den var aktuell delade även "mandeliter" den på Facebook. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/19/tele-n25.html

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  2. Har läst. Det verkar som att historien fortsätter att förfalskas i Ryssland. The "Putinist school of falsification"?

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  3. North undviker ju "Security and the Fourth International" i den där recensionen...

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  4. Det var väl en väsentlig förutsättning för att "mandeliter" skulle dela den på Facebook. ;-)

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  5. Har Spartacist League infiltrerat SEP? Se artikeln "Once more: What has happened to the #MeToo witch-hunt?" på SEP:s sajt WSWS.

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