thesaker | A very brief and quick look at the post USSR Western “left” reveals
that it did everything BUT stick to its original principles and ideals.
To elaborate, we must look at certain examples; beginning with the
highly controversial subject of refugees. The “left” in the West
continues to uphold the principle of aiding and welcoming refugees, and
this is good and ought to be applauded. However, the “left” does not
even seem to question how those refugees have become refugees in the
first place! Whilst it is a fact that most refugees are in essence
political refugees who have been displaced due to wars inflicted upon
their countries, mostly seeking regime change, the Western “left” seems
to turn a blind eye to this reality. Even worse, when the Western “left”
gets democratically elected and assumes power, it does not try to
reverse the course of events that create refugees.
It gets even worse. Take the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as examples.
Both wars were initiated by the “right” wing Republican American
President GWB. However, his partner in crime in Iraq was Britain’s
Labour leader Tony Blair; who was meant to be from the Western “left”.
And whilst the Australian Labor Party (ALP) can hold its head high
because it was an ALP Prime Minister (Gough Whitlam) who bailed
Australia out of the infamous Vietnam War, other ALP administrations
have followed the USA into wars without too many questions asked about
their legitimacy and whether or not they conform with the foundations
and principles upon which the ALP is based.
Such views and politics have nothing to do with the original “left”
values of promoting freedom, supporting the oppressed and working
towards social justice; none what-so-ever, and quite the opposite, if
anything.
And even though APHEDA, an organization sponsored by Australian trade
unions, supports and sponsors humanitarian projects in Palestine, the
current ALP leader Bill Shorten has recently described Israeli PM
Netanyahu as a friend.
The contradictions within the Western “left” are not the result of a
deliberate attempt to create confusion, but rather the direct outcome of
loss of identity and soul, and an inability to reinvent itself in the
post-USSR New World Order era.
A proper reinvention process requires new ideas, but instead of
undergoing a serious process of soul-searching, the Western “left”
shopped around for existing populist issues to capitalize on.
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