{"id":603,"date":"2005-02-20T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T16:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larshvidberg.dk\/?p=524"},"modified":"2005-02-20T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T16:42:05","slug":"en-respektabel-venstreflj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"En anst\u00e6ndig venstrefl\u00f8j?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Min ven, Jens Troldborg<\/strong>, sendte mig en artikel fra det amerikanske venstrefl\u00f8js-magasin Dissent<\/a>, der er lige s\u00e5 gyldig i dag, som den var i for\u00e5ret 2002, hvor den f\u00f8rst blev trykt. Artiklen, der er skrevet af magasinets medredakt\u00f8r Michael Walzer<\/strong>, handler om den amerikanske venstrefl\u00f8js reaktioner p\u00e5 11. september-angrebet og krigen i Afghanistan, men den kunne s\u00e5dan set lige s\u00e5 godt handle om (dele af) den danske venstrefl\u00f8j og deres forhold til Irak-krigen. Det er et forhold som Walzer beskriver som ‘pathological unwillingness’ – en sygelig modstand imod at g\u00f8re noget konstruktivt imod fx Al Qaeda eller tyranner som Saddam Hussein, og en manglende stillingstagen til de positive konsekvenser af amerikansk (og dansk) magt: Hvorfor synes SF og Enhedslisten fx at det vigtigste problem i Irak lige nu er at f\u00e5 de danske tropper hjem? Venstrefl\u00f8jens ideologiske apparatur er simpelthen ikke l\u00e6ngere tidssvarende, og Walzer opfordrer til at finde alternativer til den gammelkendte, selvretf\u00e6rdige positur, hvor man med foldede arme og bestemt mine siger “NEJ!”<\/p>\n

L\u00e6s artiklen: Can There Be A Decent Left<\/a>. Udvalgte godbidder:<\/p>\n

Ideologically primed leftists were likely to think that they already understood whatever needed to be understood. Any group that attacks the imperial power must be a representative of the oppressed, and its agenda must be the agenda of the left. It isn’t necessary to listen to its spokesmen. What else can they want except . . . the redistribution of resources across the globe, the withdrawal of American soldiers from wherever they are, the closing down of aid programs for repressive governments, the end of the blockade of Iraq, and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel? I don’t doubt that there is some overlap between this program and the dreams of al-Qaeda leaders-though al-Qaeda is not an egalitarian movement, and the idea that it supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is crazy. The overlap is circumstantial and convenient, nothing more. A holy war against infidels is not, even unintentionally, unconsciously, or “objectively,” a left politics. But how many leftists can even imagine a holy war against infidels?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

There is no deeper impulse in left politics than this enlistment; solidarity with people in trouble seems to me the most profound commitment that leftists make. But this solidarity includes, or should include, a readiness to tell these people when we think they are acting wrongly, violating the values we share. Even the oppressed have obligations, and surely the first among these is not to murder innocent people, not to make terrorism their politics. Leftists who cannot insist upon this point, even to people poorer and weaker than they are, have abandoned both politics and morality for something else. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Min ven, Jens Troldborg, sendte mig en artikel fra det amerikanske venstrefl\u00f8js-magasin Dissent, der er lige s\u00e5 gyldig i dag, som den var i for\u00e5ret 2002, hvor den f\u00f8rst blev trykt. Artiklen, der er skrevet af magasinets medredakt\u00f8r Michael Walzer, handler om den amerikanske venstrefl\u00f8js reaktioner p\u00e5 11. september-angrebet og krigen i Afghanistan, men den … L\u00e6s mere En anst\u00e6ndig venstrefl\u00f8j?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}