The “reactionary anti-imperialists”
“Reactionary socialism… half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future.” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart’s grown brutal from the fare; More substance in our enmities Than in our love… W B Yeats The left is defined, grouped and regrouped, and redefined again and again, by responses to major events — for example, to the October Revolution of 1917. The left is now undergoing another redefinition, around its responses to the series of wars that began with the Kosova war of 1999 and continued...