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Libertarians always try to co-opt the left. Why haven’t we learned from this?
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Libertarians always try to co-opt the left. Why haven’t we learned from this?

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Carl Beijer
Jul 13, 2019
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There’s a simple way to recognize how class struggle is demoted to a secondary concern among the US left: look at how we fight other forms of oppression, and consider how it would look if we fought capitalism the same way. Sometimes you see parallels – for example, in left organizations that exclude avowed capitalists just as they exclude avowed racists…

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