But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save Third World culture, no matter how barbaric, from neo-colonialism, than to support equality and democracy. People on the left would defend brutal dictators (Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Khomeini, et al.) simply because they opposed Western imperialism. As a result, all politics that were derived, no matter how loosely, from Marxism, lost credibility, and finally died in 1989. This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism. And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.


Ian Buruma What's Left After 1989?

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But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save Third World culture, no matter how barbaric, from...

But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save Third World culture, no matter how barbaric, from...

But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save Third World culture, no matter how barbaric, from...

But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save Third World culture, no matter how barbaric, from...