In all the literature produced since 9/11 on the acquiescence to Islamic fascism by some parts of the Left there have been very few theoretical explanations. Nick Cohen, a British social democrat who was an indefatigable critic of Tony Blair from the Left, put it this way: “The obvious conclusion to draw at the moment is that we are living in a rerun of the 1930s, and the liberal left is once again sucking up to tyranny.” Fleming Rose, the Danish cartoonist whose caricature of Mohammed forced him into hiding and elicited a bloody orgy of sadism and misery, ventured that the Left “somehow view[s] the Koran as a new version of Das Kapital and [they] are willing to ignore everything else.”
These are legitimate statements, and I agree with them, but a more lengthy and studious approach has been needed and has now been proffered. In the British online journal Democratiya, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., a visiting professor of American studies at UC-Santa Cruz, has written "The Post-Left: An Archaeology and a Genealogy." It is essential reading for people who doubt the Left has been unwilling to denounce Islamic fascism.
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