Yeah I agree with you there but I don’t think any communists really ever say they’re progressives outside of electoralism. What I want to do is get the liberal-left to stop using progressive too, or at least to label themselves as liberal-left in order to put it into people’s minds that the existing shit bags are the right and open up the field to the left of them more.
There is no way of stopping that from happening and those terms will therefore feel more and more meaningless as time goes by. We don’t need to reclaim these terms. We can just let them be taken by the libs to die in the dust of history. If liberals are claiming a radical term that means its a great to claim the more radical term. If ‘progressive’ becomes a meaningless liberal buzzword, let it be one. Take advantage of it.
Yeah I agree with you there but I don’t think any communists really ever say they’re progressives outside of electoralism. What I want to do is get the liberal-left to stop using progressive too, or at least to label themselves as liberal-left in order to put it into people’s minds that the existing shit bags are the right and open up the field to the left of them more.
There is no way of stopping that from happening and those terms will therefore feel more and more meaningless as time goes by. We don’t need to reclaim these terms. We can just let them be taken by the libs to die in the dust of history. If liberals are claiming a radical term that means its a great to claim the more radical term. If ‘progressive’ becomes a meaningless liberal buzzword, let it be one. Take advantage of it.