The aim of David's Political Substack is to say the sort of things a radical left would say if it existed. These bear little resemblance to the mess dished up by the reactionary pseudo left which does indeed exist but only in a state of rather putrid decomposition.
Here are some key positions:
Support for the Maoist view that the proletarian revolution requires a protracted period of struggle to transform society and the individual, and to ensure that the state does not change from a revolutionary to a reactionary force. The demise of regimes that have turned into their opposites is not to be lamented. There was nothing worth rescuing from the Soviet empire when it collapsed 35 years ago. The same can be said for present-day China, Cuba and Vietnam that badly need bourgeois democratic revolutions;
An opposition to "anti-imperialism" which started out as something progressive but turned into something totally reactionary, in particular, because of its support for highly dubious regimes in the "South" and its failure now to distinguish between aggressor and non-aggressor powers;
Much like the 1930s, the major powers are divided into non-aggressor bourgeois democracies on the one had and fascist aggressors on the other. A genuine left in the former would be working with others to put the maximum pressure on their leaders to pursue a ramped up policy of collective security and provide unstinting support for Ukraine. The battle for democracy and victory against tyranny are important pre-conditions for proletarian revolution;
Opposition to the green movement and support for economic growth. The success of the proletarian revolution requires advanced industrial development on a global scale. Coexisting with and harnessing nature depends on increasingly more advanced technologies; and
Opposition to identity politics. It converts concern about discrimination and oppression into something absurd and toxic, and prevents the open discussion of views that we need in order to acquire clear understanding of the issues. It gives the far right a field day.
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