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+**How Identity Politics Keeps Left Parties Legitimate Without Economic Power**
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+Left parties, having abandoned substantial economic promises since the 1980s–90s, shifted to social justice causes that don't require taxing the rich.
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+This strategy trades tangible public goods (healthcare, pensions, infrastructure) for low-cost cultural wins like gay marriage and symbolic gestures.
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+Symbolic activism (flags, rhetoric, calling out racism) preserves a party’s moral brand while avoiding costly redistributive policies.
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+Corporations benefit because these surface-level commitments provide PR cover without changing exploitative labor practices.
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+The result: electoral signaling that costs little politically but fails to address structural economic problems, weakening class-based legitimacy.
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+Snipped from WHAT IS POLITICS? - Why the “Left” is full of Cancel Goblins, Stalinist Gooners, D.E.Idiots and Post-Modern Tallywankers.
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+https://share.snipd.com/snip/4aa3e604-7d2d-4bff-8a3b-cfd31b684648?tl