Socialism - the obituary

I wrote a piece some time back about the Death of Socialism. I updated it on this blog as the Death of Socialism v2.0. Michael Ledeen has now written the obituary.

Unable to either understand or transform the world, the Left predictably lost its bearings. It was entirely predictable that they would seek to explain their repeated defeats by claiming fraud, or dissing their own candidates, or blaming the stupidity of the electorate. Their cries of pain and rage echo those of past elites who looked forward and saw the abyss. There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision — global democratic revolution — into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

Now I'm having this ongoing e-mail argument with a lefty and I keep going back to the idea that the left of 40 years ago stood for deposing tyrants. He never has an answer for that. Ledeen has it right. The left is no longer progressive. At least in the way it once was. They now take what was once the conservative position. Leave the bad guys alone. It is expensive and it will just annoy them if we keep pushing for change.