diff --git a/content/notes/e855e.md b/content/notes/e855e.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aeda222 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/e855e.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +date: 2026-03-20T15:08:26.666Z +mpSyndicateTo: + - https://bsky.app/profile/svemagie.bsky.social + - https://blog.giersig.eu/ +aiTextLevel: "0" +draft: true +mpUrl: https://blog.giersig.eu/notes/e855e/ +permalink: /notes/e855e/ +--- + +**How Identity Politics Keeps Left Parties Legitimate Without Economic Power** + +Left parties, having abandoned substantial economic promises since the 1980s–90s, shifted to social justice causes that don't require taxing the rich. + +This strategy trades tangible public goods (healthcare, pensions, infrastructure) for low-cost cultural wins like gay marriage and symbolic gestures. + +Symbolic activism (flags, rhetoric, calling out racism) preserves a party’s moral brand while avoiding costly redistributive policies. + +Corporations benefit because these surface-level commitments provide PR cover without changing exploitative labor practices. + +The result: electoral signaling that costs little politically but fails to address structural economic problems, weakening class-based legitimacy. + +--- + +Snipped from WHAT IS POLITICS? - Why the “Left” is full of Cancel Goblins, Stalinist Gooners, D.E.Idiots and Post-Modern Tallywankers. + +https://share.snipd.com/snip/4aa3e604-7d2d-4bff-8a3b-cfd31b684648?tl