Of all fresh left-wing initiatives, I like the "Together" organization best. Not only did I accept their invitation to a discussion – erstwhile the Platform invites me, I do not reject it either.
As Edwin Bendyk calls it, I'm a dignitary. I'm distributing ideas. In politics, my central thought is attachment to old-school social democracy.
Since 1989 there has been no crucial organization in Poland about specified a program. The Labour Union in Bugaj's time referred to the "social teaching of the Pope". From its beginning until this year's end, the SLD juggled with terms specified as "new left" or "third road".
Old-fashioned social democracy does not taste the environment of "Political Critics", green or urban activists. There are of course good exceptions, but they are usually incapable to break through at the voting phase of programming documents.
That social democracy is obsolete and unnecessary today, with this – I have the impression – most opinion leaders on the left agree. Jan Kapela and Krzysztof Nawratek, Jan Hartman and Jan Sowa, Katarzyna Bratkowska and Magdalena Wednesday. They will, of course, disagree in "what instead", but they will be joined together by a choral "meh" towards conventional social democratic policy.
I will specify it for the intent of this blog. The free marketplace economy, but with strong state presence as a regulator and investor in those sectors of the economy which cannot be put on the market. manufacture as the main economical locomotive. Acute taxation progression, serving not only the maximization of influences, but besides the flattening of inequality.
And most importantly: an economical policy aiming at as much full-time employment as possible. This is simply a precedence for the Social Democrat, surpassing another economical criteria (e.g. growth or inflation).
The arguments against it tend to appeal to the argument that in our day it is impossible. due to the fact that jobs won't come back due to the fact that manufacture is unnecessary due to the fact that the economy of sharing, due to the fact that 3D printers, due to the fact that globalisation.
I don't believe all this for reasons I've explained many times on this blog and in more serious publicity. It is best to live in countries whose economical policy is as close to the social democratic perfect outlined above (or simply social democratic).
I'm not talking about labels. If specified a policy was pursued by Adenauer or Eisenhower (and indeed in Germany, the CDU led to a championship policy of driving the SPD to the corner with punches from the left manca), then let it be called chadetic or conservative. In an imaginary second round, in which specified a social-democratic chadek would meet with the urban activist from the cooperatives paying alterces – I will vote for the chadek.
It's not even that I am an enemy of specified initiatives. I would not like to ban them (except for apparent cases specified as “health check found irregularities”). I just don't believe that they can solve real social problems.
In communes, polyamories, squats and guerilla gardening can play a fistful of youth in the large city. Most of this will grow up due to the fact that safety and stableness are the precedence for a household with children.
“Together” in Poland seems to be a very extremist group simply due to the fact that in Poland the economical program Adenauer or Eisenhower would make an impression on the far left. In fact, however, most of their proposals have been tested with affirmative results in Denmark, Sweden, large Britain, Japan, Germany or even the USA.
Whether then solutions can be repeated in today's Poland, this is simply a question for discussion. possibly not all, possibly not rather the same. But I would like to be able, at least as a citizen in the election, to support a organization that at least wants to prosecute this direction.
I am already above the ears of “third roads”, “new left”, “alternative initiatives” and “new centres”. I dream of old school.
