In the UK Brexit dominates everything and more on that over the next few days. Just to say for now a new question is creeping into the political calculation on that issue. Is Brexit doomed to fail? Something we will explore soon.
But for now let us look at what it means to be on the left with its the modern form of Socialism. Once all about improving the lives of workers and nationalization, Socialism is now about much more and over a wider canvass. It still includes the challenge to capital, but it also embraces as its central theme the ideal of truth challenging power, the weak standing up to the strong, the inclusion of the vulnerable, fairness for the ordinary in the way the economic cake is shared and the priority of wealth creation at the base of the economy, over the stoking of asset inflation at the top. It is no longer about the individual. It is about everyone together. About the quality of the shared outcome, not the unfettered freedom of the market.
It is about the many not the few. No longer is it about me first. It is about you too.