Elections: Quicksand for Socialist Ideas

MarkH
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:12:24 +0000
Basic socialism, Elections, Socialist Party, Workers Party, The Left, International, Other press, Analysis, Mark Hoskins

We don't live in a socialist world. In fact never before has capitalism exercised such total hegemony. Despite huge disaffection with austerity and global capitalism, for billions of people the world over, an alternative is impossible to imagine. One of the key tasks of the left then, is not just to oppose attacks on the living conditions of working class people, but to provide an alternative vision of a society where we do not exist to serve the economy, but rather the economy exists to serve us, a society where the slogan "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" becomes a reality.