{"id":277,"date":"2003-12-12T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-03-18T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:34:20","slug":"why-ken-macleod-wont-be-in-the-pro-war-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2003\/12\/12\/why-ken-macleod-wont-be-in-the-pro-war-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ken MacLeod won&#8217;t be in the pro-war left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nKen Macleod has a long and interesting post up detailing why he isn&#8217;t part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2003_12_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#107076468337607417\"><br \/>\npro-war left<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nThis is why no argument so far presented could convince me to take the position of the pro-war left.<br \/>\nI admit to being one of those boring old ex-Trots whose thinking on war and peace was shaped, not only by the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and 1990s, but by the oft-invoked historical memory of the 4th of August 1914, when the War to End All Wars began, and a world ended. As my oldest surviving uncle once said: &#8216;I haven&#8217;t believed in God since the First World War.&#8217; Most of the left, Marxist and liberal and anarchist, backed one side or another in that war too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Macleod has a long and interesting post up detailing why he isn&#8217;t part of the pro-war left: This is why no argument so far presented could convince me to take the position of the pro-war left. I admit to being one of those boring old ex-Trots whose thinking on war and peace was shaped, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,10],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-movement","category-decent-left","tag-ken-macleod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}