1. In many circumstances, the "new left" is far more damaging to communism than outright rightists, because of its tendency to render the broader left powerless and also push normal people towards the right when there's a lack of a significant worker's movement.

2. Starting in the 1960s, a new hedonist counterculture rooted in the petty bourgeoisie arose that, with the help of the CIA's cultural programs, got conflated with genuine communism, feminism, and national liberation.

3. This counterculture explains the general tendency for western leftists to embrace transgression for its own sake. The "new left" responds to social injustices not by dealing with their root causes, but simply by running towards the opposite direction.

4. When Marxists and feminists correctly identified problems with the institution of marriage, the "new left" began to embrace "free love," which, after many decades, has not successfully "fucked away" the patriarchy.

5. While people understand that the war on drugs is an excuse to funnel poor people (mostly Black men) into the prison-industrial complex, the "new left," for some reason, thinks countering prohibition is best done by the glorification of drugs,

6. ignoring the fact that those in power have used drugs as a means to corrode communities through addiction and power struggles within the drug trade. Hedonistic decadence has never liberated anyone, and it never will.