Now, the left is at cross roads .
Problems of Left Alternative
– Fredy K Thazhath
Both the bourgeois opposition and the Regime are of the same economic policy.
Only the left have voiced protest to the LPG policies.(Liberalisation-Privatisation-Globalisation)
But, wherever the left comes to office at states, it finds itself in an awkward position that it is being compelled to implement economic policy that goes along with that of the center's. This is because of the demise of mixed economy.
Mixed economy inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru and pursued vigorously by Indira Gandhi had room for the left to bargain and assert wherever they come to office at states; especially in the case of the fight with feudalism and its rent-bound-strangulating production relations in agricultural production and related archaic primitive manufacturing.
By the inauguration of Imperialist Globalization , that alignment of mixed economy + left bargain is Gone With the Wind.
Now, the left is at cross roads .
The left has to decide whether to leap ahead to materialize a clearly articulated paradigmatic alternative to the Imperialist Globalization design or, to sustain fighting the old way that is, to go on fighting in retreat mode trying to safe guard the welfare that the people had won through decades of struggles.
The welfare will whither away in the scorching heat of Imperialist globalization (IG).
No; the left can not fight a successful retreat.
If it has to succeed in its fight with Finance Capital and its methodic integration of economies the Left has to make a counter attack.
For a successful counter-attack,
the left has to fight against all the elements of IG in all of its paradigmatic details; every inch, tooth and nail.
We can see a glimpse of this policy ( not in its wholesome) in Jeremy Corbin and the left turn that the Labour Party has taken in UK.
But, Labour party is a Social Democratic party. It has its genetic limitations. It may go to certain limits but can't go beyond that.
The size and volatility of Finance Capital had grown manifold after sixties and seventies . So, Both TINA and TAMA are of same content in essence in action. So, varying digrees of TAMA with a label of socialism will stoop to TINA in due course of practice.
So, vigorous social democracy is no remedy.
Still, vigorous social democracy is not to be abhorred. It is the possible immediate ally of the principled modern left. If the vigorous kind of social democrats and leftwing-revisionists stand to fight the empirical adversities of Finance Capital integration of every national economies the scientific socialists , the principled modern left must ally with them with rigor and flexibility in appropriate tuning of unity and struggle to nurture Left Unity and building up of the Alternative.
Yes, it is an unprecedented plan of action; but, it is the only way to advance. No other cross-cuts are there.