>>2573130I appreciate it's annoying to get a short reply to a long post, but I'd rather not forget a novel thought: I think you blur together young idpol types with older serial-failures. A Tumblr SJW who went from girlboss feminism in 2016 to GDR apologism in 2026 may not be a model proletarian revolutionary, but they're clearly moving in the "right direction", while a dedicated communist from 1986 who, 40 years later, is further than ever from communism and mostly dedicated to endorsing the current government's social policies is clearly moving in the wrong direction.
Given the comparative recency of modern-style "identity politics" as such, it would seem premature to negatively judge the failure of the generation marinaded in it, particularly given they've developed in a much more politically mature way (from sectional interest, to intersectionality, to at least nominal class politics) than prior generations (who alternately believed in the lib dems, absolutely nothing, themselves, or salvation via foreign regimes that would ultimately die before they did.). Corbyn/Bernie were less of a failure than occupy, which in turn was less of a failure than the absolute stagnation of the post-soviet era (no matter how cool it looks when anarchists smash up Seattle), which in turn was less of a dead-end than most cargo cult CPSUs, which in turn were less of a dead end than…