Some more bits from the summit, showing that the Left has slid completely off the rails. You can pick your own jewels out of this article, but this was my favorite:

These two items are almost in the same paragraph...

Among the first foreign leaders to arrive in Johannesburg was Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in defiant mood about his policy of seizing land from white farmers and redistributing it to landless blacks.



His Information Minister Jonathan Moyo blasted former colonial power Britain for suggesting mismanagement was behind a looming famine, saying farmers were simply starved of rain: "God is not something in the control of the British...You cannot define the success of the land program by the drought."



And...

Mbeki's African National Congress (ANC) was a prominent target of the many landless black South Africans who marched in red T-shirts. One of their leaders, Jonas Apolisi of the Social Movements Indaba, accused the ANC of being an "imperialist power" for failing to redistribute land in South Africa.



"If the ANC doesn't do what people ask it to we shall shut it down like we shut down the apartheid government," he said.



In other words, please ruin us like Mugabe has ruined his nation. If the Left has one overwhelming characteristic, it is a total inability to learn from experience.