“Lewico, if you truly want to accomplish your goals – make a deal with the right!” – more frequently than usual I have been gathering with this kind of appeal. possibly that's due to the fact that the right abruptly discovered the existence of an environment supporting the organization Together, so she had to deal with the cognitive dissonance that left-wing worldview doesn't necessarily mean sympathy for Palikot.
These appeals are not truly new. From my idealistic youth I remember discussions about the alleged "third itemIt’s okay. ” She was even expected to have a Polish precursor in the form of an ideologist. Stachniuk.
It was ridiculous then, and it's ridiculous now. due to the fact that what precisely would the left get?
The essence of the left-wing task is equality and emancipation. As a left, we want that what individual was born (the rich, the poor, the homo, the straight, in the country, in the city, etc.) as small as possible would find the quality of his life.
We besides want to give him maximum freedom, not only in front of a oppressive state, but besides in the workplace. Capitalistic exploitation makes us spend a life in a place where we are no longer free citizens, but a pusher of an employer.
Different types of left want to solve this problem. utmost (in modern times mostly post-leninian) would want to destruct the marketplace and traditionally understood democracy. Democratic socialism (i.e. organization Together) believes that this can be reconciled somehow.
Which side of the argument is I, I don't gotta explain. Historically, the top success in the implementation of these ideals has been achieved in the Nordic model, for me it settles the matter.
And now: what can a “understanding with the right” give us? The right even if it accepts egalitarianism, it simply limits it to nominal equality before the law. This inactive means that if you were unluckyly born into any excluded group (indifferent as excluded) – you are sentenced to compete “as equal as” with the kid of a bank president.
So is emancipation. What a paper freedom if in practice union or worker rights are to be restricted.
The right hand, alternatively of real emancipation or equalization, has to offer only the promulgation of dignity. The unemployed from the Pegieer village will not get real aid from the right, but a propaganda pride package from the ancestors winning at Kirchholm.
If that's all he's got to live, that's all he's got. But that's the point of the left, so he can have more, due to the fact that the pride of the ancestors of the children will not feed himself.
Sometimes I hear that together should support the Law and Justice, due to the fact that “Kaczyński is pro-social.” Lisiewicz appealed in the “Gazeta Polskiej” to “the joint depriving of the privileges of the ruling Polish caste”.
If I believed in Kaczyński's “prosociality”, I would have voted for the Law and Justice and not together. But I don't believe in her. As usual, it will confine itself to empty promises and “the publishing of dignity”. Senator Bierecki and president Morawiecki belong precisely the same to the ruling Polish caste, as the oligarchs have joined the Platform or the SLD.
History knows 1 kind of situation where the centreright can improvement close to the left. It's erstwhile socialists, unionists or social democrats are so powerful that the centre-rights stay to circumvent them from the left to win the election.
I have described many specified historical examples on the blog and in the publications. This is the casus. Finland, in which the Nordic model was not built by social democrats (mostly in opposition), but around them from the left Urho Kekkonen. It's Germany. Adenauera. It's America. Eisenhowera.
America is an interesting example, that Republicans have been seeking unionists, traditionally supporting alternatively Democrats for decades. Consequently, erstwhile unions were strong, Republican administrations were even more pro-union than democratic.
In 1980, AFL-CIO office supported Carter. Lane Kirkland (as it turned out, very right) he criticized Reagan's program saying that it will only be "cut taxes for the rich", and the "trickle down" model will not solve any problems of the average American.
The wind of history, however, was already blowing in a different direction, many unions on their own announced support for Reagan. Among them PATCO – air traffic controllers union. Reagan didn't accidentally start destroying the union movement from them.
Today, the Republican organization has the face of Donald Trump, not Eisenhower. This is how it ends erstwhile the left and unionists fall for the dignity rhetoric of the right.
