L’esquerra des de 1945: cap a un moviment neofeixista

Andrei S. Markovits: The European and American Left since 1945
Dissent Magazine, Winter 2005.
(Reproduït a FrontPage Magazine, 27/01/2005: The Transformation of the Left into a Neo-Fascist Movement, i en versió francesa, a UPJF.org: Évolution de la gauche vers un mouvement néo-fasciste.)

I cannot think of two more potent wedge issues that define inclusion and exclusion on the left today. In a hierarchy of key items defining what it means to be left in contemporary Europe and the United States-pro-choice, abolition of the death penalty, equality in marital arrangements and official recognition of gay and lesbian couples by the state; progressive income tax; economic and social justice; support for third world claims against the rich first world; multilateralism as opposed to unilateralism; legalization of marijuana; and on and on-opposition to Israel and America figure at the very top. If one is not at least a serious doubter of the legitimacy of the state of Israel (never mind the policies of its government) and if one does not dismiss everything American as a priori vile and reactionary, one runs the risk of being excluded from the entity called “the left”.