How far back did he send American leftist movements? Before him Jimmy Carter was talking about more programs, working with the USSR and socialism lite equivalents. Then Ronald Regan comes in, introduces crack, reignites the red scare and perma fucks all relationships with leftist ideology. To the point where the Democrats regressed hard and socialism would be a dirty word until the 2020s. Even then it’s still only used by the most radical mainstream politics.
Jimmy carter was an imperialist dog who should have been told to face the wall, I don’t care if democrats liberals are starting to demand more imperial super profits and gay drone pilots
Reagan didn’t do it, Capitalism failing to keep up socialism-lite in contradiction with the profit motives of the bourgeoisie did it.
It’s actually incredibly lucky for the US that they were able to weaponise oil prices against the USSR around the same time, because SocDem’ism was over either way and the West, in the continued Cold War, would have had to confront 2008 with an intact Communist world.
>great man theory
Reagan is a product of a the death of american revolutioanry socialism, not the contrary.
>>2667418Then educate me. How did it die? Because it seems to fast that one minute, America is lighter on socialism then instantly regresses decades when the 80s happen. It was every institution too, something that didn’t happen during other eras of leftist regression where there would always be a couple of stubborn nails refusing to change
Reagan didn't kill the New Deal in America. Reagan didn't establish a half century of liberal hegemony.
That was Carter
The left set itself back by falling for every single bit of brazen COINTELPRO since the 1950s, abandoning materialism for smug elitist "good fucking person" and ostracizing the general working class for college students and HR professionals and complete rejection of pragmatism and playing the game for personal purity.
The Western Left went through the same declines everywhere, not just the US
Yankleft was already dead by the time of Reagan.
Reagan didn't destroy the American left, he saved it.
Prior to 1980 the US left was in shambles. Labor unions were thoroughly anticommunist, Maoists were busy killing themselves because of Dengist counterrevolution, stagflation had discredited social democracy and the student movements had collapsed. No one could agree on anything and no one had any real vision for social revolution.
Then along comes this charismatic rightoid named Ronald Reagan who sweeps the elections and seems to represent everything wrong with America. Anti-Reagan sentiment was like Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. The Popular Front with the Democrats is revived as leftists pour into the Rainbow Coalition for Jesse Jackson. Everyone in the mainstream media pours hate onto the Reagan administration. Communism and Marxism are forgotten as everything is reduced to anti-imperialism, anti-militarism and critical support for the Ayatollah, or the Taliban, or Noriega. The worst tendencies of the US left were cultivated in the 1980s, and only got worse after the USSR collapsed, discrediting socialism and leading to 15 years of post-left anarchist nonsense that only died in 2008.
>>2667514America was always this post-left anarchoretardation nonsense. America never had a proper left.
>>2667479You aren't gonna mention how every "socialist" movement became nationalist retards since the 60s?
Carter was the reason soviets went into afghanistan. Zbignew was his nat sec advisor. Operation cyclone started in July of 79, soviets went in December.
Same this with gorbachev. It was andropov that laid the groundwork for gorby. If he did not die young, you would see him try to deng xiaoping the ussr.
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