QUOTE: I quite agree with this formulation:
"Without getting talmudic about it, I see a distinction between 'of the left' and 'on the left'. I'm happy to say I am 'of the left' in that most of my ideas and attitudes are informed by a set of enlightenment and post-enlightenment principles you identify. I'm less comfortable these days with saying I'm 'on the left', as (a) it's not clear to me what I'm signing up to, and (b) large swathes of people who identify as 'on the left' are not people I would march with."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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