The 'modern Left' becomes increasingly reactionary and pathetic

“On the Barricades” s06e15
This week we have two releases of “On the Barricades” where hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski discuss with Arto Artinian, our returning guest and friend who is a Bulgarian-Armenian professor of sociology working at a college in New York.

This second installment is an in-depth discussion of “the Left”, which currently has become quite the opposite of its classical meaning of those who organize for progress. Where do Leftists stand and where do we go from here? How do we move past the current pathologies, sectarianism, vile libertarianism, the culture and toxic role of the NGO cliques, pessimism, etc? How do we connect with the masses and get back to the concrete problems that regular people face in this time of intensified crisis?