http://www.arena.org.au/2009/11/a-new-left-forming/ the website of left political, social and cultural commentary Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.arena.org.au/2009/11/a-new-left-forming/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Robert Verdon Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:42:01 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=734#comment-200 Why leap aboard the train of social democracy / Ruddism when Second International parties have been derailed all over Europe recently? Why ignore socialism or equate it with Stalinism ('communism')? Why cling to the obsolete and anti-democratic 'twin-party state'? 'Why not get beyond self-dividing nationalism and market eternalism? Western hegemony on the planet is dying, and very likely all of the concerns raised in the above article (by everyone named) must find their place — or not — in a new revolutionary situation to be siezed by the world's proletarian majority . Why leap aboard the train of social democracy / Ruddism when Second International parties have been derailed all over Europe recently? Why ignore socialism or equate it with Stalinism (‘communism’)? Why cling to the obsolete and anti-democratic ‘twin-party state’? ‘Why not get beyond self-dividing nationalism and market eternalism? Western hegemony on the planet is dying, and very likely all of the concerns raised in the above article (by everyone named) must find their place — or not — in a new revolutionary situation to be siezed by the world’s proletarian majority .

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