is a little like saying that the Maoist guerrillas of Peru’s Shining Path are cognate with the Democratic Leadership Council.
Well, the Democrats really don't have access to the arms yet or the necessary hinterlands populated by subsistence farmers.
The Left may hate the United States above all other countries but, ironically, there is no uglier charge the Left can make than that someone is "anti-government." Since the American Left (unlike that in every other country) is dedicated to ensuring a monopoly on firearms by the authorities and regards anti-government sentiments as inherently reactionary, I doubt there will ever be a Leftist anti-government revolt in the USA.
Add to the above the further irony that the bastion of the American Left is among coastal bluebloods and who regard anti-banker subsistence farmers of the heartland to be "Nazis" and you really have a picture. Put the two together and you begin to suspect that maybe David Rockefeller really is Secretly Behind Communism (though he's getting kinda old to be very hands-on these days).
The left is both of these people. They are on the side of the Shining Path and the Mohammedan crazies and they are all for strengthening the government we have. Their affinity for the various "rebel" groups is related to most of those groups' totalitarian possibilities, I think. This group or that group is the one who will get it right when they take power. With the arabs, they just believe they are useful to put the Crats back into control of this government. The Left sees The Great Sweep Of History and cannot see beyond their noses.