Ep83: Left Wing Culture War: Old Scars w Micheal Walsh

I welcome back the Homegrown Socialist as we take a step back form the impending crash for a discussion of historical splits in the left and their results. From taking Orwell to task for helping give communism a bad name, to the tension between revolutionary visions large and small. We also take on the question of a Left wing patriotism for what comes after smashing statues. What we don’t get to is actually solving sectarianism; something no one seems to have a good answer for.
Part 2 of this topic will be about terfs and class reducers

Links
We’re riding up a roller coaster hill
www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2020/07/16/stock-market-crash-2020-welcome-to-the-end-game
A ML explains how the self righteous worldview o do more harm than good.
www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/02/orwell-hitchens-and-the-hollow-self-righteousness-of-anti-communism
An explanation of what a ‘progressive patriotism’ would be.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/there-no-contradiction-between-patriotism-and-socialism
An attache of Lenin recounts him meeting with anarchist figure Kropotkin.
www.bolshevik.info/meeting-lenin-kropotkin-bonc-brujevic1919.htm