Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused.

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.