El Opinador Compulsivo

Más sobre Bernard-Henri Lévy. Los contrastes entre la izquierda en EEUU y en Europa:

Today’s European left, by contrast, is a “creaky ruin” and a “corpse.” It is obsessed with “anti-Americanism,” and it tolerates a remarkable amount of anti-Semitism in the name of anti-Zionism. It embraces illiberal leaders like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela but scorns the “neo-liberalism” of Western Europe and America. For the American reader who pays little attention to the machinations and shifting orthodoxies of European intellectuals, such complaints may seem odd. But our left is different from their left. For Americans, wars among socialist sects are primarily of interest to academics and octogenarian readers of The Nation. We needn’t worry that a coalition government will have to appease a rump Communist Party, nor do any major newspapers, television networks, or high-circulation journals of opinion plump for green, socialist, or syndicalist candidates.