Bemoaning the lack of progress from the European left is one thing- they are shite and mostly ineffectual, I agree. Violent uprising probably isn't the answer, however entertaining the idea might be. Genuine working class representation is the only way the world will progress but its stifled so easily that only a genuine cult of personality would allow it to happen here. A socialist trump-style figure who does not give one fuck.
But the self-righteous obsession with ancient historic tests renders most points invalid at this point, don't you think? I mean, Situationist International and all that shit is almost 60 years old now. Oh lets undertake some subversive acts- what did it achieve. Absolutely nothing.
Until your idealistic revolutionary ideals modernise themselves or there is a conceptual awakening amongst "left" digital terrorists etc- all real battles are digital now and not fought in the streets, whether pacifist or violent, take your pick- then clinging to historic ideas that pre-date the internet, or assuming your criticisms are somehow more valid because you can cite what happened in 1972 are just as ineffectual as sleepwalking into police assault so you can protest being assaulted by the police.
In one hand we have a dismissal of the Iraq protests- I agree, they did nothing- as living in the past and then dozens of paragraphs from old cunts who are irrelevant now.
The "right" is light years ahead of any labour movement in terms of media (social and dying print) and until the "left" are able to realise that then there won't be any progress.
But for all the furore and anger you're showing here,
@thirdform - however admirable it may be- your points of reference are as dated as the ideology that the "left" attempts to utilise.
Modernisation is the only route.