A while ago I talked about the Dutch socdem coalition Green/Labour and their party programme, which included a two state solution for Palestina, more money to NATO among other things.
Today the far right party FVD made their programme available, and it includes… peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, deprofitization of healthcare, political asylum to Assange and Snowden (not Manning, though, she’s trans after all), removal from EU and NATO.
MFW a far right party has LESS imperialist talking point than the ‘hope of the left’ lmao. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still fascist talks of anti-LGBTQ+ stuff and all. But fucking hell Dutch left get your shit together.
It’s unfortunately common and has been going on for a while. As “left” parties abandon the class struggle or anti-imperialism the far-right picks it up. What differentiates socdem parties from liberal parties these days? At least the liberals are consistent. The socdems will stab you in the back and claim they’re doing acupuncture. They have nothing special that sets them apart, they’re like all other parties with the same policies (austerity is good for you sweaty 😊 type), they’re just marginally better sometimes when they feel like it.
And it’s a failure of communist parties in Europe too to have been coopted by this same milquetoast brain rot after 1991 and abandoning all revolutionary points. Now for the most part we serve to bring the socdems, who have bigger parties, back to the left when they want to liberalize something.
Had socdems yell at me because I am not going to vote on the Dutch Green/Labour coalition saying I’m some sort of traitor. Like, what point of me being against NATO don’t you understand lol. ‘Yeah but you have to sometimes make concessions you know!’ Fuck off, maybe YOU should have some actual views for once .
They could just ignore NATO in their party programme, but no, instead they clamoured for more funding.
Western “left” Has no hope left. They have gone too far with identity politics and have purged anti imperialist Marxist people long time back. According to them LGBT politics is the litmus test for morally right or wrong. I didn’t see a single European commie party to condemn the action of NATO and Ukrainian government shelling of Donbass, maybe KKE did but it’s their usual trope to conflate Nazism with Russia government or "both side imperialists " . They should pack up from politics because they have become irrelevant. Meanwhile European right got all the major talking points, atleast for the sake of election they will say they are anti NATO or anti EU , nowadays AFD of Germany is also saying that they want to do business with China 🇨🇳. I think most NATO left and pro EU parties will be dead within 2 years with large recession incoming and with energy shortage
According to them LGBT politics is the litmus test for morally right or wrong
i mean, kind of? yes? but it’s not like be all end all either. supporting queer rights and being anti-imperialist aren’t mutually exclusive. i don’t get why they don’t understand this.
LGBT program with neoliberalism is always a failure , your cannot NGOize LGBT agenda then support neo liberalism in Eastern E./W.Europe . That’s EU left is all about. Obviously pro LGBT is good but hey why in Moldova the older and middle aged population are pro Russia and pro USSR and are against LGBT thing. It is not simply they hate LGBT (obviously older people do) but they associate LGBT with pro neoliberal parties that’s the problem .
what do you mean by “LGBT agenda” then? because that’s reich-wing language you’re using.
also, no one said anything about NGOizing queer rights or combining it with neoliberalism - i was talking about the western left/commie parties.
but they associate LGBT with pro neoliberal parties that’s the problem .
religious bias can also come to play. orthochristians especially aren’t known to be the most supportive when it comes to queer rights. i swear, there’s probably like 1 progressive orthochristians for every 100,000 progressive muslims, that’s how fucking reactionary it comes off as.
Manning’s sentence was commuted, she’ll be fine.
But I dont believe much of the economic rhetoric of the right ends up being implemented after elections. After all they’re allies of the capital.
It’s textbook fascism to claim leftist talking points but it’s wild to see it in real life now. And how the left is sitting the bed with it, with their MORE NATOOOOOO!!! sentiment.
The right has been wrapping their fascism is leftwing talking points from the outset. See NSDAP.
Somehow I knew what this post was going to say before I even read it.
perhaps there’s still a little hope left with Bij1 if Rebekka takes over. they were the only ones alongside Forum to vote in favour of a motion for independent inquiry into the Nord Stream 2 attacks. however a couple months later they did vote in favour of declaring the soviet famine a genocide so I wouldn’t put that much money on them being sufficient anytime soon.
