Global Leftism Map

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Neh, they tend to sell the fuck out and become neoliberal SocDems the moment they get any seats.

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But haven't all left parties, either they sell out as neoliberals (which I don't view as "SocDems") or become Stalinists? Well that or get overthrown like Salvador Allende by right wing agents. This seems to invalidate everyone then.

The guy includes Portugal and Spain after all, which have the average European far left parties (Communists, Die Linke style parties)

Explain these

Also India has large swathes under Maoist control

It does. The Left is basically dead in this day and age. Merely saying you're a Socialist whilst actually being a neoliberal isn't good enough to actually make you Left wing.

I wouldn't call the left "dead", it seems stronger than its been in a long time.

But this metric also invalidates stuff like the USSR and Maoist China and everyone whos ever called themselves a socialist ever

Unless you think only hardcore leninists or stalinists are "left wing".

People like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and stuff like Podemos are certainly vibrant left wing figures and movements, left wing social democracy anyway

You don't have to be a Leninist, you merely have to advocate worker's control and ownership over the economy. That's literally the core purpose of the Left, despite what all the modern propaganda says about muh big government, muh identity politics and muh social services. SocDems haven't even pretended to pursue this goal for many decades now, so I fail to see how their movements will bring about any sort of change whatsoever. At best they'll delay the neoliberal degeneration of public services.

If being utterly irrelevant and not even close to seizing control of even the most pathetic nation on earth means it's stronger than it's been in a long time, that should tell you enough about the modern Left. The USSR & Co was a good attempt, but mostly ended up as a bureaucratic mess of government control and worker alienation. Would still be more hopeful about the future living in a state like the DDR than I am now.