Last year, Chris Hedges advocated self-immolation as a way to protest the Gaza genocide. In his latest demoralized screed, he transfers blame for the crimes of the Israeli-Zionist state and capitalist imperialism to the entire human race. Gaza, he proclaims, proves the futility of any belief in the possibility of human progress.
It’s especially annoying when talking about imperialism, labor aristocracy and settler-colonialism. Many “leftists” have a hard time with nuance and understanding what “contradiction” means, I found.
The empire is not above using revolutionary/leftist sounding words and thoughts to lead people back into the fold and defang them.