I'm interested in learning more about the socialist tradition in different countries, so tell me about yours.
Is there a good genuine left-wing party where you live? Is the labour movement strong? Are most people skeptical towards capitalism? Are you expected to be laughed at if you say you're a Socialist? Beaten? Arrested? Are there any politicians active today that you feel genuine respect and admiration for?
Just to have a basis for comparison, let's take someone like Sanders as the line between "progressive" and "left-wing."
Oh and if you're in the US, tell us about your state instead. We all know about mainstream american politics but maybe fucking Mississippi or Kentucky or some other state has some interesting organizations that don't reflect the national politics.
Cooper Morris
That's an absolutely terrible map. I have no idea why they have included a few graphical symbols of various cultures and then apparently random labels for other countries. Like, why does Serbia get labelled and not Bosnia or Croatia? Seems arbitrary.
Samuel Torres
Maryland here. Before, I basically thought I was the only socialist in the state. Then, in many of the events/marches centered around this time, I met quite a few socialists/anarchists participating. It was nice.
Thomas Morales
Finland here. Being a 'socialist' here is completely possible, it's just that it means the same old heavy taxes, big government etc. And even the 'socialist' parties are knee-deep in idpol. I do think there is a possibility of introducing the concepts of worker coops (albeit there's no finnish term for them as far as I know) and workplace democracy at some point.
In any case, the finnish left wing is currently in a lousy state.
Mason Garcia
European "socialism" seems to be nothing but social democracy. This seems to be the way that evolutionary socialism inevitably fails; its parliamentarian leaders will always shy away from finally taking the revolutionary leap, and it eventually settles on being nothing but welfare capitalism. People in Europe, when being told what socialism actually means, will almost always say that it sounds far too extreme for them.
Chase Clark
What about the people? Is there a general socialistic, revolutionary sentiment that isn't being attended by the political parties, or are your radicals satisfied with welfare & feminism?
IDK why but I always expected Finns to be very left-wing.
Luis Ward
There is a somewhat-legit socialist party in parliament here in Denmark, though the idpol is leaking in a little. It's basically a coalition of a lot of smaller socialist parties, so you got some hardcore tankies and anarkids under the same roof. A lot of their politics are still watered down bullshit, though.
But at least they still have a violent revolution on their party programme
Brandon Fisher
I guess we kind of are. I think workers realize they are being exploited, they just don't really know how, and so they don't really know what to do about it and so the only thing they can do is cling to their government programs.
Jaxson Morris
Same deal in Denmark kinda. It's funny how when you talk some of the lower-class workers who vote for the nationalist party here, they sometimes start sounding a little like socialists.
