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Remain In Hell Without Despair
@daphnelawless.com

No matter how much you yell at me, this happened. Greenwald, Dore, Khachiyan et al. were influential on the 2010s Left and pulled many towards pro-Russia, anti-anti-Trump politics, even fascism. Pretending they were never seen as "on the Left" is memory hole shit buttondown.com/Fightback/ar...

buttondown.comThe Red-Brown “zombie plague”: how fascist ideas are becoming popular on the Left – Part 1Image by Rafaela Gaspar. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in May 2018. We reprint it now as part of a series of key perspective...
Remain In Hell Without Despair@daphnelawless.com

But that's actually the problem. Actual Leftists got their analysis from Greenwood and Dore, adopted them into "the Left" and thus got pulled Right

Remain In Hell Without Despair
@daphnelawless.com

Quick question, is Aaron Maté still on the Left or am I an asshole for raising that question? Because all your fave Left academics were citiing him as an authority on Syria even 5 years ago bsky.app/profile/post...

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Aaron Maté says that the 2014 Revolution Of Dignity in Ukraine that led to the ouster of Yanukovych, was worse than the Jan. 6 insurrection. "The U.S. cheered on that ouster rather than... defend democracy in Ukraine, and that's a major reason why we're in the mess we're in."

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