The fresh Left Problems

The fresh Left Problems

Konrad HandSent by: Maruch on 2025-08-27 https://marucha.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/problems-new-old-left/

In the West (last time in England), the alleged actual left tries to break distant from the social-liberal mainstream and benefit from the phenomenon called "a rising wave of populism" – yet it inactive loses in this field to the fresh (?) right.

The blame is not only the late start itself, but besides the fact that this fresh left of old values are founded by people and groups formed over decades of degeneration of social democrats towards liberalism.

Normal language

Hence, right next to the supposedly fresh slogans, referring to the leftist roots and the real needs of the working class – simply there must be reservations that "no, no, we besides are in favour of climate, transgender and (predominately) immigration, only show concern that there are no more factories (if they were vegan)".

And at this time, the UK improvement in self-controlled local governments takes off abroad flags, ends the programs utransition Young people and issues regulations that prevent the closure of the same roads for months. Straight, clear, clear. Do you announcement the difference in feeling social needs and responding to problems?

Sure, the farage at the top are only ‘another Blue’, a different shade of tories, but on the bottom are frequently more normal, not activists decomposing accents between the life of penguins and the life of erstwhile metallurgists. In fact, the language of the fresh / old left is not suitable for communication with the electorate, and the way to regain credibility, as shown by the examples of Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany and George Galloway in England – it can be very long if it is not to lead in the same, social pre-hell.

Get distant from mainstream

This can besides be seen in Poland, where many candidates for the function of the actual left simply did not know and did not get free of mainstream issues specified as COVID, war in Ukraine, coal mining, restrictions for drivers or immigration. In the meantime, the example of the enthusiastic accession of the group, another than that, of sympathetic communists to the lockdown policy, shows how much to nowhere it is expensive.

Did masked communists someway benefit from their online rucksacking behind lockdowns, convince anyone that the pandemic was the responsibility of capitalists, the importance of communityism, and supposedly the best of post-communist China?

No, no 1 noticed, profit gathered the mainstream, and the distaste of the behaviour of any colleagues remained for longer. And so it is with almost everything that belongs to the package of the new, social-liberal left and what is vain to look for in the writings of the classics of socialism.

Lead the crowd, not follow it

Yes, socialism in Poland emerged due to the interest of noble children in fresh currents flowing from outside. And so, it was Polish nationalism that evolved from the pursuit of self-consciousness of individuals coming out of frequently plebe circles. At least these 2 currents took root temporarily in Poland, not just looking at the limitations of their sources, but uncovering common language, goals and values with masses.

It is besides actual that, like populist movements in another parts of the world, the large ideas of the 20th century celebrated triumphs not erstwhile they succumbed to mass tendencies, but erstwhile they could organize and direct them.

The deficiency of a clearly defined direction of change is precisely the weakness of modern right-wing populisms, which sufficiently reliably point out what they do not want, but poorly articleing what they seek. Their work frequently requires them to refrain from “making things as they were before”, while the “to be normal” itself may not be enough.

The left, paradoxically, could have more advantages in this respect, even though proposing a return to public services understood as services and a civilizational social cost, alternatively than as a origin of profit, while the right-wing mention to the principles of liberalism will always have a problem with specified setting up a case.

The same could happen, for example, with reindustrialisation, in Europe's realities actually impossible without the active function of the states, and thus with full employment and a scope of another issues that liberals have always been and are helpless in not admitting that the planet in which we live is simply a work of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Milton Friedman, alternatively than Antoni Gramsci and the company. And yet...

Population

And yet there is something that prevents the left from speaking and acting in specified a common sense, understandable to people. This is why so many hereditary Labour voters are voting in the UK present for UK Reform, not for much more reliable Workers organization of Britain or Social Democratic Party, and on the right there is no meaning specified spatters of the erstwhile National Front as Populist organization or others referring to erstwhile distributionism, Gilbert Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc.

Electoral credibility present is on the side of the populist right-wing post-liberal and neither left-wing reflexes of chessmen nor right-wing attachment to the principles of this state of affairs will change things.

In England, Jeremy Corbyn, who is now privately sympathetic, is the fresh old left, but already surrounded by an activist even more dogmatic than those that drowned Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany. Corbyna's organization has not yet been created, and it is already delightful with mass. Only:

– according to the Labourist tradition, it is more crucial to support union centres than individual membership,

– Trotskyist factions, which are genetically oriented for continuous verification and elimination, especially within the framework of the fresh movement, are already active in organisational matters. entrism.

It is characteristic that this time Nigel Farage seems to avoid his favourite sport, that is, throwing all members out of his own party, being himself secured as an indeterminate co-owner of the UK Reform. This is why blue people grow in the field as a average voice, even with Tory billionaires in Westminster.

Can Corbynovists win in the same play? The inclinations raised from Labour, as from socialist parties, will make this difficult.

So it is akin in Poland. By cutting off the large line of the discussion of work for over 35 years of the 3rd Polish Republic, it is simply impossible to build in Poland a different mass stream than the national populist one, associated with the right, as long as the colleagues from the left repeat "but let them put on masks and get vaccinated..., but let them sit on bicycles..., but let the peasants put on dresses..., but thanks to the windmills it will be colder ..." etc.

It is actual that not only in Poland, the right is contaminated by infantile economical liberalism, but in the case of the left, it is similar, only in terms of culture and especially language.

Second 4th of the 21st century

It is besides actual that the electorate is slow increasing up, which knows no another reality than transgender, climate disaster and platform capitalism. However, these youths, so far, voters of another system, i.e. in the West mainly Greens and various activist movements, and in Poland yet Together and derivatives.

The problem of uncovering a language with this group, either overexpressive or highly passive, stimulated, subliminally accepting the inprinted message and believing that all its problems are ADHD, a solveable next pill – will be the task of the second 4th of the 21st century.

At the moment, however, non-systemic environments have not even learned lessons from social and consciousness change after 2000.

Konrad Hand
https://aniowilem.pl