- 28 Dec 2014 16:36
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The left in the West has disavowed practically all of its values and has come to represent not the interests of the working classes, but increasingly those of the upper-middle class. The left that you pine for is dead. It has been infested with an endless empty abstract egalitarianism and the ideology of human rights best exemplified here.
Since the ancient ideas of 'citizenship' and 'democracy' and actually participating in public life mean nothing any more, there aren't citizens, but only persons born with natural inalienable rights. If human beings have these inalienable rights, these ideologues ask, why can't we extend those same equal rights and personhood to animals? 'It's only fair', they say.
Elsewhere, Decky wrote:This has nothing to do with the left, don't smear us with these silly middle class crusades that pass for politics in the modern age, do you think Kier Hardie would have done this, Uncle Joe Stalin, do you think the struggling masses living one payday to the next give a damn about this? It is just rich people with no problems of their own looking for something to moan about.
The left in the West has disavowed practically all of its values and has come to represent not the interests of the working classes, but increasingly those of the upper-middle class. The left that you pine for is dead. It has been infested with an endless empty abstract egalitarianism and the ideology of human rights best exemplified here.
Since the ancient ideas of 'citizenship' and 'democracy' and actually participating in public life mean nothing any more, there aren't citizens, but only persons born with natural inalienable rights. If human beings have these inalienable rights, these ideologues ask, why can't we extend those same equal rights and personhood to animals? 'It's only fair', they say.