At least western progressives are finally turning against Dems/labour and other fake left parties.
I honestly feel like the biggest hurdle to the western left getting shit done is that everyone has been tricked into thinking that liberals/labour are left in any way. We get presented with "the two sides" when the reality is both major parties are aligned with capitalist imperialism and are therefore both agents of anti-left fascism when push comes to shove. I think the Biden admins inability to control the narrative on Israel and Palestine has opened a lot of people's eyes to that.
A lot of people are turning against them, but there is also the big problem that they keep winning. A few years back when at least vaguely left populism was on the march, you had Sanders in the US, Corbyn in the UK, the Australian Labor Party at that time was taking an unusually left wing platform to elections there, in Europe you had thoe parties like Podemos and whatever those sell outs in Greece are called. And not only did they all lose, but the recalibration towards hardcore third way neoliberalism in the aftermath was very successful. Biden won, UK Labour will win, the ALP was elected in Aus after swinging back to right wing politics. Definitely agree that soc-Dems are the biggest hurdle to rational policy in the West, but things will have to get a lot worse before we fall out of this pattern
At least western progressives are finally turning against Dems/labour and other fake left parties.
I honestly feel like the biggest hurdle to the western left getting shit done is that everyone has been tricked into thinking that liberals/labour are left in any way. We get presented with "the two sides" when the reality is both major parties are aligned with capitalist imperialism and are therefore both agents of anti-left fascism when push comes to shove. I think the Biden admins inability to control the narrative on Israel and Palestine has opened a lot of people's eyes to that.
And the moment Labour looks even a little bit more progressive, bam! Psyops media campaign!
We are trapped in class warfare and democratic means of escape have been removed.
Side note: had the sudden realisation that Corbyn is the first person I can remember that was directly discredited because they must be "hamas".
A lot of people are turning against them, but there is also the big problem that they keep winning. A few years back when at least vaguely left populism was on the march, you had Sanders in the US, Corbyn in the UK, the Australian Labor Party at that time was taking an unusually left wing platform to elections there, in Europe you had thoe parties like Podemos and whatever those sell outs in Greece are called. And not only did they all lose, but the recalibration towards hardcore third way neoliberalism in the aftermath was very successful. Biden won, UK Labour will win, the ALP was elected in Aus after swinging back to right wing politics. Definitely agree that soc-Dems are the biggest hurdle to rational policy in the West, but things will have to get a lot worse before we fall out of this pattern
Is this string of losses because the masses genuinely love capitalism so much, or that we are bad at reaching people who could be on our side?