Crossover post from AADThis thread is dedicated to the absurd folly of the New Left and their modern followers. The more I think of it, I consider their influence on politics to be entirely negative or almost entirely so. The cult of sincerity, of 'THE NEED FOR PRINCIPLES', and of course the fetishization of revolution all date in their contemporary forms from the 60s and 70s (of course all these things in general have long origins in politics, perhaps dating from Romanticism which the New Left and counterculture clearly borrowed so much from, but the particular iterations you see now have roots in that period. Exhibit A: Occupy Wall Street. Exhibit B: Bernie Sanders for President! (Sanders, of course, being an ex-hippie)). This is, to my technocratic soul, a bad thing. So I've created a watch thread to ridicule it.
To start off, and going back to the 70s, here's an article on the Black Panthers:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/25/whitewashing-the-black-panthers.html. I recommend you read the whole thing, but here's just one quote and not the worst of it
Also many of those involved are now, how predictably, university professors or involved in academia in some way. A good argument for firebombing academia tbh.
