{"id":1869,"date":"2018-02-13T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:59:35","slug":"who-is-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/ca\/who-is-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is \u201cThe Left\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781786607812\/Why-Social-Movements-Matter-An-Introduction\">Why Social Movements Matter<\/a> reminds us how the struggles and imagination of past generations have shaped our world. It encourages us to join with others to find creative responses to the stacked-up crises of our times \u2013 and to embody, within our struggles, the values of the world we want to bring forth. But it also engages with the complexity of social change, the disappointments and betrayals that face movements as they interact with the wider socio-political systems they are part of. The accessible style draws us into rigorous reflection on the tensions between movements and political institutions, the meaning of \u2018the left\u2019 today, and the interplay between collective agency and social structures. Never ducking the challenges involved, Cox inspires us towards the building of counter-power and the creative potential that lies in \u201clearning from each other\u2019s struggles\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Laurence is a member of the Ulex Project advisory group and is a member of the facilitation team on our <a href=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/ca\/courses_events\/the-ecology-of-social-movements\/\">Ecology of Social Movements<\/a> course in June. He co-directs the\u00a0MA on Community Education, Equality and Social Activism\u00a0at Maynooth University in Ireland and runs a PhD-level programme of participatory action research in social movement practice. In 2014 he co-edited the volume Understanding European Social Movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">WHO IS &#8220;THE LEFT&#8221;? &#8211; AN EXTRACT<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The unqualified phrase \u201cthe left\u201d is beloved of subeditors for precisely the same reason as it is useless to help us think. In a subtitle, \u201cThe left must\u2026\u201d or \u201cThe problem with the left\u2026\u201d works well precisely because it is a fudge, an empty signifier into which everyone can read whatever suits them best. It should be fairly obvious that in most countries today, and especially in the US and UK, there is no \u201creal\u201d meaning of the left in (to put it baldly) the Marxist terms of concrete political organisation. Nobody would seriously argue that we have a present-day equivalent of the French Revolution\u2019s Assembl\u00e9e in which one could identify those deputies sitting on one side of the room and radically opposed to the power of church and king as \u201cthe left\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Instead, there is a constant practical question: if within society (whether within parliaments or opinion columns) there are forces which can be said to represent that same general tendency but in our present circumstances, what are they? There is therefore an argument, firstly, as to what we include on the left. If we grant \u2013 as we usually do since the later 19<sup>th<\/sup> century \u2013 that it must include not only radical-democratic but also socialist (in the sense of anti-capitalist) visions of the future, do we also grant that feminism, anti-racism, LGBTQI, disability activism and so on belong there in the same way despite their conservative wings? After all, there are also right-wing radical democrats, conservative trade unionists and one-nation socialists etc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1974 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nuitdebout-1-800x445.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nuitdebout-1-800x445.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nuitdebout-1-800x445-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Secondly, do we feel that \u201cthe left\u201d necessarily relates to a particular force in society \u2013 or even, is it defined by such a relationship? Marx was wary of the term socialism in 1848 precisely because it represented a programme of the radical middle class. More specifically, does the left have to have concrete social points of reference (working-class people, women, ethnic and racial minorities and so on, who are often the same people in practice) \u2013 and, more threateningly for the neoliberal centre-left and a certain kind of radical intellectual \u2013 does it have to have some structures of democracy, participation, accountability, dialogue, collaboration and so on that structures this relationship? In other words, is \u201cthe left\u201d in whatever form a transcription into some more public articulation of social movements? Or does it stand in glorious isolation from these?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thirdly, where does this left exist in society? In the early 21<sup>st<\/sup> century it rarely exists in parliaments \u2013 not so much because of active repression in most countries (despite some vicious exceptions like Turkey and Russia) but rather because we have returned to the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century situation where the left may have some relationship with liberal forces in the official public sphere but largely exists outside of these. Certainly we cannot talk of \u201cthe left\u201d in a parliamentary sense in anything like the way one could even 50 years ago, on the eve of 1968.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In fact \u2013 as the preceding discussion has hopefully shown \u2013 some of the liveliest debates are not really about the political vision of the left, or even about the proposition that the left should have some kind of active and two-way relationship with popular actors, but rather about what organisational forms best express this, today. This debate, I would suggest as a student of social movements, will be won in practice by those who develop the most effective and sustainable organisational forms for the conditions people are actually trying to organise under, rather than by those who argue loudest (and often against all the evidence) for the universal suitability of their particular model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a name=\"_Toc500716950\"><\/a>TWO DIMENSIONS OF THE LEFT<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We can think about this in two ways. Firstly, from a historical point of view, \u201cthe left\u201d as it exists at any concrete point in time represents something like an archaeological sediment of movement history, a combination of more or less fossilised forms that once helped to shake empires and force capital to organise redistribution and provide welfare, as well as many individual elements of this history \u2013 particularly individual intellectuals, theoretical traditions, periodicals and small institutions \u2013 which have taken on a life of their own, for good or ill. (As with language and culture, so too in any political tradition we often practice and justify given ways of doing things as an identity marker, with little real idea of where they have come from.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/etol.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/etol.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/etol-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The left is thus only in part made up of people who have entered the left from movements. It equally includes people who have entered this left directly, in its discrete forms (today often via social media or the university), and are only aware of its roots in this longer movement history to the extent that they learn about it through sectarian circuits, reproducing the many blind spots particular to that specific tradition. This is one important reason why many people think of \u201cthe left\u201d as a sort of Platonic entity, existing prior to and even against actual popular agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Secondly, however, what gives \u201cthe left\u201d real life is that in one way or another it includes \u2013 although it is by no means restricted to \u2013 the best of many movements. Many people, having become involved in movements, come to see a wider picture and come to feel the need for some form of theory, organisation and vision which goes beyond that particular experience and connects multiple struggles \u2013 over time, across space, and between different social groups and conflicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is, incidentally, the vision Marx presented for his imaginary communist party (faction) in 1848: a coming-together of the most determined, most insightful, and most strategically-minded activists from the struggles of the day. Similar visions have been conjured up by many since: from Gramsci\u2019s idea of the party enabling the proto-hegemonic alliance between the most conscious elements of urban workers, the rural poor and for that matter intellectuals (under working-class leadership); to some of the best radical left and left-green visions after 1968 of a \u201csocial movement party\u201d. To mention these different histories is at once to indicate a sense of the common challenge, but also the vast differences that lie between them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1924\" src=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/152808185_f35fd6c727_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"152808185_f35fd6c727_o-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is also worth noting that this \u201cparty\u201d role can be carried out within an anti-authoritarian framework, geared to the coming-together of grassroots struggles which do not seek to have a common line or electoral programme, but rather seek to find what could be called their \u201chighest common denominator\u201d in the same process of mutual radicalisation that goes together with movement development in general. As in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century or under conditions of clandestinity, it is important not to fetishise electoral politics or ideology as defining what a \u201cparty\u201d is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">From a Marxist point of view, as I have argued elsewhere, the real question is not whether \u201cthe party\u201d is a good or bad thing for movements in the abstract, separate from any consideration of the level of movement development or the concrete organisational nature of a specific party. Rather, a party is a good thing for movement development precisely to the extent that it actively contributes towards connecting previously separate struggles, bringing large sections of these movements with it in a real process of deepening political consciousness in ways that arise organically out of movements\u2019 own needs and learning processes, and in this way helping what Luk\u00e1cs called \u201cthe point of view of totality\u201d, of the whole social order, to become visible and contested in ways that are connected to real social agency rather than an abstract idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is the programme which I and others have articulated as one of \u201clearning from each other\u2019s struggles\u201d: one in which the basic position is not one of a separate elite judging popular movements and approaching them in an instrumental way, but rather one of activists involved in different ways in the many different learning processes that go on in social movements, who come to understand their own needs, struggles and visions more clearly in the encounter with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For members of \u201cthe left\u201d who do not come from this process, the challenge \u2013 if they are serious about actual popular agency and do not just seek organisational reproduction as a goal in itself \u2013 is to engage in this dialogue constructively and, if they have nothing specific to offer in terms of their own social experiences and struggles, to help transmit learning from other generations and other places in ways which help to build links of solidarity and to deepen strategic thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1686\" src=\"https:\/\/ulexproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-16-at-23.14.32.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-04-16 at 23.14.32\" width=\"758\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Movement activists often need this learning and understanding, when it is presented as part of a dialogue of equals and a contribution to their own struggles. If people do not have a personal, family or community background in struggle it can be a huge effort to reinvent the wheel, whether in terms of tactics and strategies, making links beyond an individual issue or beyond a single place, and perhaps most fundamentally seeing the structural and interest blockages that stand in the way of genuine systematic change. The necessary arguments over the boundaries of a movement and its relationship to other movements \u2013 the development of a bigger picture and deeper alliances or the choice to ally with elites in return for limited local concessions \u2013 are shaped by this learning. The left has much to offer in this context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781786607812\/Why-Social-Movements-Matter-An-Introduction\">Why Social Movements Matter,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0will be published by Rowman and Littlefield International in July 2018.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when the only way to think beyond the horizon of capitalism seems to be dystopian fantasy, Laurence Cox points us to the power of collective agency to re-vision and contest our future. 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