Monday, August 9, 2010

The Lefticon

Agency castration: A state of mind that views historical change with terror and anxiety, and has a radically pessimistic and deeply reactionary view of Human agency. The hidden goal of therapism and those who practice it. The common view that all we could do in the anti-war movement was riot in the streets or submit was a product of agency castration.

Anti-humanism: A state of profound self hatred that expresses itself as a desire for the extermination of your own species, usually dressed up as some form of environmentalism. Members of the earth liberation front celebrated the outbreak of AIDS because of their anti-humanism.

Anarcho-hoboism: A street culture of Anarchism that glorifies illiteracy, homelessness, alcoholism, narcotic addiction, living under bridges, eating out of trash cans, refusing to bathe, and owning as many dogs as possible. Most gutter punks are anarcho-hoboists.

Apparat-chic: A style of dress and behavior that is fashionable on the socialist side of the protest ghetto. Fellow travelling as mindless consumerism. A leather jacket with a hammer and sickle on it is apparat-chic.

Botskyism: A heretical deviation from leftobotism in which one mindless program is replaced by another that has even less public support or relation to political realty. Socialist action is botskyism, as it is a purged deviation from the leftobot Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and is even more marginal.

Cause-jacking: Using a cause that has public support to push a cottage industry sectarian agenda that has nothing to do with it. Speeches about Mumia at anti-war marches are cause-jacking.

Disposable radicalism: Modern consumerism, in all its toxicity and emptiness, dressed up as a form of "revolutionary" politics. Buying a Che t-shirt is an act of disposable radicalism, as is wearing it to a protmar.

Feminoid: A degenerate form of feminism that claims to liberate women while uncritically accepting the most sexist and reactionary cultural stereotypes about them. The claim that reason is a "male construction" is feminoid.

Intellectual pacifism: A fear of debate and disagreement within the left so paralyzing that it is often indistinguishable from a mute acceptance of the status quo. The world social forum has failed to address the crisis of meaning on the left in large part because of its culture of intellectual pacifism.

Holocaustalgia: A tendency among socialists to look back on the "good old days" when eastern socialism was busy murdering millions of people and the western left was a puppet of the KGB. Sam Macy of the WWP often engaged in holocaustalgia.


Leftbotomized: The precipitous intellectual decline that often follows long term residence in leftyworld. This is different from being leftarded in that the person was not idiotic to begin with, and the process is, in theory, reversible. The staggering decline of Stan Goff's ability to write, as demonstrated by comparing Full spectrum disorder and Sex & war, is a clear sign that he has been leftbotomized.

Leftobotic: A form of leftism that mindlessly follows a failed program and is completely unable to observe current conditions or intelligently adapt to them. The anti-war movement is leftobotic

Leftology: A type of leftism, mainly conspiracy theory, that is so stupid and delusional that is is difficult to tell from Ufology. Trutherism is a leftology.

Leftyworld: The alternate cultural universe that most members of the "radical" left live in. Only members of leftyworld believe that socialists represent "the people".

Loserism: Valorizing failure as morally superior to victory. Glorifying people or political programs that are complete failures. Ralph Nader's racist comments about Obama were motivated mostly by his bitter loserism.

Marxist-lennonist: The politics of left wing celebrities, mostly rock stars. The ideology of the music video. Rage against the machine is marxist-lennonist.

Multi-level marxism: A type of leftism that has more in common with Amway than anything else. The ISO is known for its mult-level marxism.

Protmar: A protest march organized by stalinoids. The entire cultural milieu of stalinoid protest marching. Any artifact or practice of the stalinoid protest march. Selling unreadable maoist newspapers is very protmar.

Saddamism: The glorification of foriegn leaders or regimes who oppose the United States, or the west, despite the fact that their ideology is a type of fascism and they murderously suppress there own left. Support for the Iranian regime (as opposed to the Iranian people) is a species of saddamsim.




Sectocide: Politically self-destructive behavior, usually in the form of purges or party splits. The circular firing squad. Historically motivated by real differences or struggles for power, today it seems to be motivated by the need to turn your aggression against the person standing next to you on the barricade because no one else will take you even remotely seriously. The split in the WWP during the 2004 election was sectocidal.

Stalinoid: A style of politics that resembles stalinism in its exterior forms and paranoic pathologies, if not in its political contents. A degraded and stupid survival of Stalinism. International ANSWER is stalinoid.