That Matt has the kind of insight he has into the left is just amazing, really. It’s very difficult to have a handle on if you haven’t actually seen it. I have, having been inside these circles as a teenager. The completely unscrupulous murderousness is spot on, and it was the same thing back in 1968.
My “cell” was a crazy marxist/leninist mix. I didn’t really like to get too close, the kadres were heavy drinkers apart from the mental stuff. And you didn’t get to the top without vomiting all over the place. So it was paranoia (has anoyne seen that strange car parked for six hours), drunken stupor, dreams of killing this or that, and the odd rape when the inner circle got some stupid woman paralyzed with booze and ideology.
Observing occupy and the others, it’s amazing how much things stay the same. Anyway, that cell’s organization was central and very well known. Today. that organization has top politicians and influence agents all over.
Sounds familiar.
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints." - Barack Hussein Obama