Thomas Riggins's Blog

Political and cultural commentary based on a world view shaped by the works of Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Averroes, Maimonides, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sartre and Bertrand Russell "What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious."-Wittgenstein

Friday, November 11, 2022

LEFT-center versus CENTER-left

Once again the "center" ends up aiding the right when push comes to shove. Those on the left who still think we have to "follow the center" to get to victory should learn from this election their opportunism may have flipped the House to the very right they claim to oppose. The left should always maintain the most advanced (realistic) positions and when working with centrist forces not be uncritical but argue for the advanced positions in a non disruptive, but principled, way. Those on the left who continue to cave in to the center and fear to stand up for principled positions will only isolate themselves and help the right. It's LEFT-center unity, not CENTER-left unity.