I know I've been through several cycles of dooming on this, but when does the left finally return?
And how do we get old-school left ideology back into the center of gravity, not just a fringe?
And how do we get old-school left ideology back into the center of gravity, not just a fringe?
Very little of what the 20th century left advocated is still even mentionable.
Left-wing politics in the last century was rife with rhetoric about the inherent injustice of classes, the proletariat, socialization, economic planning, economic democracy and co-operatives etc.
Left-wing politics in the last century was rife with rhetoric about the inherent injustice of classes, the proletariat, socialization, economic planning, economic democracy and co-operatives etc.
Clement Attlee (the post-war Labour prime minister) wrote in 1937 that he wanted to see a classless society and a de-commodified economy that went beyond capitalism.
Even Jeremy Corbyn couldn't say that in public, he would be tarred and feathered and burned at the stake.
Even Jeremy Corbyn couldn't say that in public, he would be tarred and feathered and burned at the stake.
Has right-wing ideology really won?
Going on the Attlee example, the former centrist wing of the Labour Party in the 1940s is now the far-left of Labour, politically and ideologically.
That is so fucked and I hate it.
Going on the Attlee example, the former centrist wing of the Labour Party in the 1940s is now the far-left of Labour, politically and ideologically.
That is so fucked and I hate it.
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