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Deconstructing the Hard Left
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"For some self-proclaimed leftists, the answer is all too simple: they like the fact that these words scare people off. Intellectuals have always been more inclined to profess their leftism, but not always for the right reasons. This is especially true in countries like the United States where leftists have had little access to power. The marginality of leftism appeals to many people who reject the status quo, not because they want to provoke change, but because they want to be different. To people who want to distance themselves from the masses, words like "ideology" and "reification" are the perfect way to repel all those 'normal' people who comprise the 'masses'. These are the worst kind of 'self-marginalizing' leftists, for they marginalize themselves — consciously or not — out of a desire to distinguish themselves from the same people they are supposed to be helping."
- Charlie Bertsch and Joel Schalit, Bad Subjects, Issue #26, May 1996
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