That the left-wing political aspirations of yesteryear were raised to the pinnacles of success by generations of selfless, heroic activists, let there be no doubt. However, in the aftermath of this tremendous, historic victory – a breakthrough for Humankind – who is galvanising the political left today, where is the bond that unites its movements, the only chance it has to survive and present a credible alternative for a governance which respects basic human rights today?
Defining the political Left and Right
In broad terms, we may say that today’s left stands for “nurture” while the right follows what it claims to be the laws of “nature”. Nurturing involves creating mechanisms for protecting the rights of people, whoever they are, it involves creating mechanisms for guaranteeing social equality, which naturally involves a degree of economic interventionism by the State.
Nurturing means government interventionism (after all, what is a government elected for?), it means the implementation of checks and balances to make sure that a clique of elitists does not govern an economy, it involves a high degree of responsibility in economic planning, which passes by a naturally highest possible profile designated to a spatial planning ministry (today relegated to minor secretary of state status in most countries). Nurturing means guaranteeing basic human rights to education, healthcare, housing, employment, leisure activities and a decent retirement pension.
The excuse that human activity should be governed by human nature is the most basic error expounded by the Right, seized upon by criminal elements within all human societies which try to rule through division, symbolic control and coertion. The “nature” approach tries to justify the most base, animal instincts in governance, as in the law of the jungle, from which Humankind, driven by the Left, has been trying to escape for centuries.
The “nature” or “rightist” approach tries to protect the vested interests of the moneyed or propertied classes, hiding behind theories of individual responsibility (within a heavily loaded famework); laissez-faire, without placing the proper checks to guarantee equality; privatization, heavily weighed in favour of capitalist elitists, favouring outsourcing (an excuse for cutting jobs and limiting employment contracts) and basically creating all the conditions for a domination of society by those who hold all the keys to wealth and power.
Failure of the Left
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