Wrecking the Left

The "gentrification of the left", its takeover by onetime mildly reformist and social democrat parties in most of the West,  representing the comfortable upper middle class, a project in which the CIA and its allies has been wildly successful, has killed its radical and revolutionary message, notes Diana Johnstone, in this interview with Chris Hedges, and we certainly agree. Identity politics has always been something of an obvious fraud, a con game foisted on the unsuspecting masses to kill class struggle consciousness when it is most desperately needed.