but the party at large is getting pummeled in elections atm and as it’s doing so, it is moving even further to the right.
This is the thing i will never understand. From what i seen every reformist party, even when they win the elections, lose support because it is not radical enough. And every time it happens, instead of the obvious conclusion “we fucked up, betten not cater to libs but try to get our own electorate back” they move further right losing more and more until oblivion.
I don’t get it either man. What you decribed happens again and again and again and yet there’s never any learning process, it just keeps happening. In case of The Left, this is a big tent leftist party with all kinds of factions. From a majority of succdems to communists, they kinda had it all. One of their core points that was unnegotiable for them for a long time was a kind of anti-imperialist stance, specifically anti-NATO. This was unnegotiable for them till last election (2021), where they put chances of a seat in government over this anti-NATO stance. They lost that election hard and thus didn’t get the seat in government they bargained for.
Now I don’t follow German electoral politics close enough to say that’s what lost them the election and I can’t say how much of a factor this was in them losing subsequent elections. Still, the same pattern - compromise with the libs to get a chance at participation, get smacked by voters, double down. Just very very strange.
Especially that Lenin smashed such politics and scheming once and for all and history proven him right that this is pretty much universal case. Communists should never ever go hand to hand with libs to the elections and also never ever with opportunists. Seats in parliament are good but not worth any dilution of marxism.
This is the thing i will never understand. From what i seen every reformist party, even when they win the elections, lose support because it is not radical enough. And every time it happens, instead of the obvious conclusion “we fucked up, betten not cater to libs but try to get our own electorate back” they move further right losing more and more until oblivion.
I don’t get it either man. What you decribed happens again and again and again and yet there’s never any learning process, it just keeps happening. In case of The Left, this is a big tent leftist party with all kinds of factions. From a majority of succdems to communists, they kinda had it all. One of their core points that was unnegotiable for them for a long time was a kind of anti-imperialist stance, specifically anti-NATO. This was unnegotiable for them till last election (2021), where they put chances of a seat in government over this anti-NATO stance. They lost that election hard and thus didn’t get the seat in government they bargained for.
Now I don’t follow German electoral politics close enough to say that’s what lost them the election and I can’t say how much of a factor this was in them losing subsequent elections. Still, the same pattern - compromise with the libs to get a chance at participation, get smacked by voters, double down. Just very very strange.
Especially that Lenin smashed such politics and scheming once and for all and history proven him right that this is pretty much universal case. Communists should never ever go hand to hand with libs to the elections and also never ever with opportunists. Seats in parliament are good but not worth any dilution of marxism.