On June 17,
2015
the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Valdai International Discussion Club will hold a seminar “Global Alternatives to Left-Wing Forces in the 21
st
Century: Marxism and Other Ideologies”. The
meeting
will
be
broadcast
online
.
The last two calendar years have been marked by a significant increase in left-wing protest movements, both within the European Union ...
... Europe, although it has not as yet provided it with consistent dividends. The situation in Central and Eastern Europe is, on the face of it, little different from that in the West. Social democrats remain a sizable presence in many countries, but other left-wing party families (the ‘radical left’ and Greens) are rarely strong. Although the current juncture demonstrates a definite crisis of neo-liberal capitalism, it has also exacerbated a range of internal ideological and strategic crises ...
... either to the evolution, or a radical dismantling, of the capitalist system. Moderate transformation was implemented by Swedish, Norwegian and Danish social democrats who created the social state model. Both camps possessed radical wings: fascist and left-wing ultras.
By the late 20th century, Europe had settled on a social system that could be provisionally called socialized capitalism, with its distinctive triad of economy, social state and social-political partnership. The right concentrated on ...
