"That is why the first thing the postmodern left did was to start renaming everything: from sex or gender to the way we refer to certain races. It is fair to admit that they won the battle of the dictionary."
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"A 20th-century leftist might have debated how much the state should intervene in citizens’ lives. A postmodern leftist only debates how far the transformation of society and the minds of each individual citizen should go. It’s as if they have gone from being bad economists to being bad psychoanalysts.
"Gender politics, rewriting history, multiculturalism and open borders, or abolishing the police were issues that used to be addressed by a small group of leftists we called the “far left.” In both the United States and Europe, these issues are now the central agenda of left-wing parties, starting with the Democratic Party, perfectly caricatured today in what AOC represents. (RELATED: The Marxist-Islamist Alliance Feeds On DSA Naïveté)
"The 20th-century left, the left of class politics, was profoundly wrong about everything, but the contemporary left, the left of identity politics, is simply insane. The revolution that socialists entrusted to the proletariat of the last century, they now intend to carry out with an army made up of trans people, immigrants, people of fluid and intermittent sexuality, and ordinary Americans who are suddenly fascinated with Islam. Sometimes, when I watch the woke army struggling to form a uniform line, I don’t know if I’m looking at real soldiers or just at a circus. (RELATED: You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics)
"A curious observation: leftists never try to convince informed and free people; they always go after those they consider dependent and malleable. Just as yesterday they went after the workers, and especially the blue-collar workers and those who, a priori, are less intellectually qualified, now they’re going after the freaks, those who don’t know their own identity, and those who urgently need to see a psychologist.
"In comparison, the blue-collar workers at least had the dignity of labor and an ethical foundation vastly superior to that of this brainwashed mass of followers of postmodern progressivism. Perhaps it’s time to pass a law (Good Lord! Am I asking the government to solve something? What have I become?) that prevents political parties from seducing those with obvious mental problems with Gnostic rhetoric. If you think about it, by gathering the mentally ill, the left has become one of those infamous cults from the 90s where one idiot managed to get a thousand fools to give him money, offer him sexual favors, and later commit suicide without killing him. (RELATED: From Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Samuel Moyn: What Happened to the American Left?)" . . . More...
Itxu Díaz is a Spanish journalist, political satirist, and author. He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario Las Américas in the United States, as well as a columnist at several Spanish magazines and newspapers.
