We’ve written about this before: I really do think some on the Left (red and green, with a big overlap these days) are toying with outright violence in a way not seen in the ‘democracies’ since the 60s and 70s, IRA and one or two other nationalist cults aside. For present purposes, I’m also minded to park the years of Islamist terrorism, terrible though they were, because they are not the phenomenon I want to focus on.
In the UK & Europe, normalising for the periodic outbursts the French have been indulging in for centuries, the modern flirtation with the political hard stuff has mostly been on the ‘green’ side of things, Andreas Malm and Roger Hallam being the best known promoters. (For the record, I’ve not read that either has actually advocated or specifically perpetrated anything more than vandalism to date). In both cases their logic goes: if we really think climate change is globally life-threatening on that scale, well, … – and they are not-so-subtly hinting at a lot worse than vandalism.
So now someone in the Land of the Free and the Readily-Available Firearms has taken a real pop at Trump. More detail to follow in due course, no doubt; but a round from a rifle that clips an ear is an astonishingly close shave. (Mercifully, most people don’t have much idea what a rifle-bullet wound looks like.)
What’s the next stage in this slow-motion escalation? Of course, many on the Left would adduce ASBO-level racist behaviour on the Right as being a long-running form of political violence: “you started it“. The pro-Gaza crowd contains some whose behaviour is increasingly of the same kind – as many a Labour MP knows to their cost. (Again, I’m parking the outright Islamist terror wave.) Left/greens are inclined to say that globalisation etc (in the manner they’d frame it in their own doctrinal terms) is a form of violence against the masses: “you started it” again. There have been outbreaks of “communal tension” in Leicester which are echoes, albeit faint, of the Subcontinent where that phrase originates from. And in an extraordinary, chilling, but apparently fleeting episode, a column of drilled and uniformed black folk took to the streets of Brixton a few summers ago. Political football? Here’s a quick-off-the-mark piece from the Graun this afternoon.
That 2020 Brixton episode, and how it was evidently quashed quietly but effectively & with great dispatch, might be a signifier that peaceful politics may be expected to prevail hereabouts, even in these fraught times. Ditto the non-followup to the 2011 riots that seemed to have some political pregnancy at the time; and the significant lack of traction for XR / JSO / IB et al. But it’s simmering, with a certain type of “desperate”, would-be planet-saving green evidently harkening to the likes of Malms and Hallams. Is the USA sui generis in its gun-based lunacy? We can only wait with a high degree of trepidation.
ND
Source:
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/07/political-violence-greenleft.html
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