one thing about the left-right spectrum: it has been such a long, long slog and i am so so tired. it's just sadly fatiguing to watch the repetitions. really it's a century and a half of the same. there's always a revival of leftism in progress: new waves of intellectual marxism from adorno to zizek to pikkety - hardt and fucking negri, here to save the day - new revivals of radical unionism or something. each time it has its energizing quality: a revival of the inspiration. but each time it's harder to get it up, really. i swear, it's still ripples of 1848, itself a ripple of 1789. nothing has been so thoroughly explored and exploded historically or intellectually; the left-right spectrum is still an etiolated version of that now, for some reason. if you can't think in some way outside that, you can quiet down now; i already know what you're going to say. man the phrase 'late capitalism' is very...grueling. likewise "neoliberalism'.
little leftist and rightist totalitarians have devoured millions of people in their projects. one great contribution that they made together to history is the "cult of personailty", which you'd have to say is at least very funny.