Left Apostasy is a favorite spectacle of the ruling class. 9 times out of 10 the star Apostate is a sleeper spook, or was always a fascist or other right wing sort who for fashion and opportunity’s sake — in the postwar heyday of Communist ideological hegemony — was pretending to be left, progressive or communist for professional advancement or just to have interesting friends.
Ignazio Silone, I was once broken hearted to learn, when in my American isolation I didn’t know anything of his later career, had been all along a US payrolled spy. So his slo-mo apostasy was revealed in a new light, as the gradual and incomplete shedding of a disguise. Curzio Malaparte was probably just one really weird guy. Gide’s back and forths were characteristic of bohemia of the day and impacted by personal spats and fascinations; I feel Max Gallo was real while it lasted. It’s significant that one of the contenders for Great American Novel (Invisible Man) is a spectacle of its authors irresistible apostasy (though Paul Devlin has convinced me there is something else going on there, and I really must reread it to see if I agree), and another, Catch-22 by a convinced New Deal populist leftist whose apostasy to reactionary cynicism was so seemingly natural and slow that his fiercely Marxist-without-self-knowledge masterpiece has been quietly demoted as if it were a matter purely of artistic judgement and academic fashions. Like and unlike him, commie Langston Hughes’ failure to deliver any apostasy at all decidedly impaired his American reputation until the Rampersad hit bios some 35 years ago, which ushered in a meaningfully post USSR revival. Eric Ambler is kind of distressing, as is Auden, as is, worst of all, E. H. Carr. I don’t suspect any of those Brits of anything but the swing to the right fully explicable as insufficient personal or other sources of resistance to the tide pulled by the moon of class and political climate. The big wave of apostates of ‘56 on is divided in three — most interesting to me the Communists who tried their darndest to remain Communists and pursue communist projects despite the break with the USSR, among them many colossal artists, intellectuals, political militants, which on the surface seemed wholly and solely precipitated by the “crimes” of the tanks which were actually saving Eastern Europe from the early Nazi counterrevolution (the greatest sin in the eyes of the Aestheticized Resistance is to see this with political clarity), but was probably more profoundly an effect of the weakening of the international ties from Kruschev’s revisionism by a thousand cuts — but the main story there is just exposed opportunism of the clerks in conditions of new pressures and rewards.
A little index card for later: the ruling class sponsors pundits who like to say Claudia Jones was ostracized by the CPGB because of racism. She was actually a major leader with enormous influence on the development of Communism in the US and, after being deported, in the UK, who was mildly ostracized, but not expelled (because of her stature in the party as a militant, theorist, and comrade) for refusing to denounce Stalin. [attach hedge]
The left apostasies of this month’s Niche Media Psyop just seem so ludicrous, trivial, squalid in comparison; of course they are. [advance hedge disavowing the dehumanizing language here, to strengthen it as presumed unavoidable] I’m going to be dealing in this post with nasty little errand boys, lampreys, Renfields, lickspittles.
But the ruling class programme they serve really dwarfs in ferocity, strength and peril to us that served by those intellectuals of substance like, oh, Lucille Ball, who has the gravitas, honestly, of a Moses, in comparison to these people.
So: what’s this? Yes: there was big propaganda campaign in mini major media and soc media launched recently that has reconfigured the niches and networks of the ersatz marketplace of ideas that is the little hamster run of the spook pundits —
— reminds me of the ground floor of the old old Bendels, on 57th street, designed architecturally to house all the departments (shoes, hats, furs, perfume) in separate little shops, only missing the plate glass, on a dollhouse Paris street.
Wait: It’s all Bendels!
It’s been happening for a few weeks it seems while I was distracted by the last one, a small wave of the Shitzek armies — Vighi, Desmet, whom I am getting to. But in this post I will make a detour to note this new thing, not really unexpected: Cory Morningstar, who seems to be leader of a Larouche/oid cell, paused the innuendo and dogwhistling and openly declared herself AN ENEMY OF THE LEFT.
Around the same time it seems one of her protégés, Alex Gutentag (another personal parasite of mine, like Vighi) also declared war on the left, as part of a new magazine Compact, named after the popular Fascist German pub of Jurgen Elsasser, in which a roster of mostly open right wingers announce a crusade against Liberalism and the Left. The dominantly openly right gang includes one famous right winger in Rettikle Lefthshists “Stalinist drag” Slavoj Zizek himself, the breifly “renegade” Reaganite libertarian Glenn Greenwald, the spooky fascist NickLandian race realist Nina Power who was launched by Shitzek, Alex Callinicos and the SWP, and Sam Kriss who defies all descriptive categories that don’t begin with an M an O an S another S an A or a D.
So connecting the dots in their own style here, without making associations explicit and meaningful, is tempting me, just for mockery — but I’d better not. I want to go back to Syriza in a bit; many of this gang are veterans of that murderous swindle, and Morningstar announced her conversion to Blumenthal sect, on a public live stream conference of covid con dissidents, with a grand gesture of affilitation with them, a ceremonial initiation pledge consisting of bashing the left and blaming uppity poc’s “identitarian” sin as its lethal essence and satanic corruption. (These are also vererans of the Maidan “color revolution,” and the apology for the Odessa pogrom and massacre.) But later.
What I’m going to discuss here first is how Cory Morningstar a few months ago began to lay the groundwork for her lock and load onto a different fake left niche, performed a Shitzekian pretzel twist of branding, and then stepped down stage holding hands with Max Blumenthal, of all people — he had seemed to be plagiarizing her, with signifiant adjustments, to recuperate the apparently muckraking dossiers of stuff-on- the-internet she was compiling, but I guess they might have been collaborating on this all long — to declare their alliance in a War on the Left.
“The Left is the Enemy.” — Azov Battalion
“The Left is the Enemy.” — Cory Morningstar
“Socialists are the enemy of the working class.” — Alex Gutentag
“All that remains of America’s ‘left’ are the laptop class that constitue the purity police.” - Cory Morningstar
“The Left only cares about racism.” — Slavoj Zizek
“The Left makes everything about race.” — Cory Morningstar
“They [Marxists] try to make everything about race.” — Max Blumenthal
“The Left betrayed the working class.” — Cory Morningstar
“Left means nothing but betrayal.” — Cory Morningstar
Zelezniy in Ukraine bans all left parties as traitors.
“The Left is a vaccuum. It’s done.” — Cory Morningstar
“We will show you how to do decommunization.” — President Putin
“Don’t be a tanky.” — the Intercept
“The Left betrayed the working class for identity politics.” — Cory Morningstar
“The left is a fucking vacuum. That's it for the left. They betrayed the working class. They stand for nothing. What are they good for. What are they good for. They're not anti-war. They're not anti-imperialists. They're not for bodily autonomy. My body my choice is gone, I mean what good are they for? All they are is now an arm of capital. That's it. They lobby for windmills and technology that ruins the earth that destroys the earth that destroys life. They lobby for pharmaceutical that destroys you know in this way we're seeing a lot of vaccine injuries, and this whole white supremist idea that we know what's best for Africa, you know, Colonialism, that mentality, is being propped up again, this whole green fourth industrial revolution, omplete imperial like a rebooting of colonialim and imperialism and The Left is pushing and pushing it, there's no talk about what the energy is used for, there's no uhm opposition to the military, no focus on the military, no focus on industrial uhm you know the industrial economy, versus you know there is just so much being lost here, I mean i think the left is you know the left is a complete write off. And it only serves now, it's the enemy. the collaborator. And I will always stand. And you were talking about being hated. The good thing about it. I don't care who hates me. I really couldn't care less. And that is a gift, because then you can write. I will always stand with the working class, with the peasantry, with the indigenous people with those fighting, who are impoverished and oppressed by our common enemy, the ruling class. Like I can't believe that people are siding with the oppressor over our brothers and sisters. It makes me want to ball my eyes out. I mean its disappointing but I've also been writing about it for such a long time and the psychology behind it, I mean this wokeness. I mean people are more interested in their sort of branding of who they are on social media, then they care about the people. do anyway its a time to sort of recognize that and get past that and accept that for what it is. Recognize that the left has become an arm of capital. and they're the collaborator. the enemy.” — Cory Morningstar
Immediately after:
“But more insidious than the right that's an arm of capital because they feign anticapitalism [CM nods] they wear it on their sleeve, they belong to an alphabet soup of socialist organizations whose members could fit in i dont know a laundromat, they claim to be often anti imperialist, that's part of their branding, but this is the ultimate mask-off moment, [CM nodding] where they demonized the truckers strike as a bunch of what they call petty bourgeois owner-operators, you know they use Marxist, crude Marxist theory to paper over [CM nodding] what their real intentions are, which is for a brutal police crack down and a security state repression of protest against an agenda they support. And what they support is masking 2 year olds endlessly, banning people from society and public places for refusing to take an MRNA injection, possibly every five or six months as we see in France, fully vaccinated keep being unvaccinated we see that in Israel to, they stand for soul and livelihood destroying lockdowns, that have led to more deaths than they prevented [sic], they stand for keeping children indefinitely out of school and against the government's obligation to educate poor children, they've stood consistently for those and they stand for placing the unvaccinated in camps. Noam Chomsky called for that and found a lot of support on the left for those comments. And that is what actually took place in places like Australia and there was no opposition from the official or organized left to that. They stand for all those things but they don't want to say it, and they certainly don't want to debate those issues in the open.” — Max Blumenthal
"The year 1789 has been erased from history” — Goebbels
Note the Hitlerian technique of just listing and listing the outrages to wind you up against the scapegoat. (This is the notorious cut / paste dossier form of Morningstar’s interminable blogs, and now of Gutentag’s parasitic posts as well). In course of it you are to simply be roused to murderous fury and to forget to ask if blame is being cast in the right place.
"Like the People, I call by the despised name Jew, all money changers, all unproductive parasites living on the substance and work of others. Jew, usurer, dealer, are synonyms as far as I am concerned. May people have called it a crime to have nailed the name of a people still living as a label to an evil profession, I reply: it's not up to the whim of a writer to alter the value of an expression consecrated by usage, and of which I can't find a better, in my native tongue, than Jew, to designate as witheringly as I wish." - Toussenel
Working Class and Left are presented as MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE TERMS. This is a very simple reboot of JEW and Working Class as mutually exclusive. Morningstar builds the Left with the same imagery her predecessors built the Jews. Nice shoes, wealth, arrogance, disguise, control of media. Sophistication and education while the working class is simple and ignorant (the Left have "laptops;" the working class in Canada don't.) It’s all boilerplate.
Both Blumenthal and Morningstar have ignored challenges to debate these comic rants live streamed. As Blumenthal has rejected all other requests to debate, over the past dozen years.
What this is, is the fascist imposters posing as lefts, Max Blumenthal majorly, Cory Morningstar his accessory, taking their own bloody murder weapon, the bloody knife with which Blumenthal sawed the heads off Syrian POWS, and planting it in this guy’s luggage.
And this guy’s
And this guy’s
Their mission is to make sure no left politics emerges to lead the people’s unavoidable resistance and fight back. They’re preparing the ground for and atmosphere for pogroms.
Lots of pogroms.
Max Blumenthal is the individual on earth most guilty on all those counts they Hitlierianly list, and he is not a left at all of course. He’s a Clinton gang spook. Cory Morningstar, his new Odd Couple Road Trip Mismatched Buddy, has been serving as the sparring partner of this same white-rite rant she is now herself delivering, from the psyop mag Jacobin, self-styled The Leading Voice of the Left, for years: she performs the poster child for this identity politics that betrays the working class for its petty particularist projects like sacred burial ground protection from public infrastructure. They each give each other excuses to attack the masses with whom they have nothing to do but to assault, plunder, terrorize, and eventually exterminate.
These pundits are like a bunch of vicious, incontinent dogs released to fight to the death in your kitchen while your kids are eating. You’re invited to bet on which of them takes the worst beating while they’re all competing to tear your babies apart.
It’s the social media version of the US’ Syria strategy: sponsor a dozen rival gangs of terrorist throat-slitters, have them call each other heretics, take and lose and retake villages, each shelling the same village, the same civilians, the same legit Syrian military, repeatedly, helping each other rape and rob, thus destroying the same society that they are all The Enemies of, which is Their Enemy, on the pretext of hunting the other. And so achieving a total laying waste without the Shock and Awe bombing. They want to lay waste to the left politics of the masses, the liberation struggle, the revolutionary struggle. They want to salt that earth, create a taboo. They can’t quite declare this, tho they are working up to it. And so they claim it is harboring The Left - ISIS - the Jew. Maybe even the Nazi. They say: the masses are harboring Max Blumenthal. Or Glenn Greenwald. Or Rachel Maddow. The Left. The Enemy.
This is a social media black op. The War On The Left declared by the right after the false flags they carried out in media.