Democracy is a system that works or compromises. If you are willing to compromise with only 60% of the population.

You have ruled out 40% of the population.

It means you're willing to repress them.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Around 2015, it looked for a short moment as for the far left

was going to transform the politics of Europe and perhaps the whole of the Western world.

Jeremy Corbyn took the leadership of the Labour Party and was extremely popular in Britain for a while.

In Spain, Pablo Iglesias, a Marxist academic who used to teach classes like cinema and hegemony, managed

to transform an anti-capitalist street movement into a political party, Prodemos, which was in some elections beating the traditional center-left party, the PSO.

In France, the PSOE. In France, the arrival of Emmanuel Macron

humiliated the old moderate socialist party and seemed to place

Jean-Luckman-Chaunchon, a self-decled party and seemed to place Jean-Nuc moulanchon, a self-declared communist at the front of the left.

And most importantly, of course in Greece, a complicated centrist coalition government was washed aside by the rise of Alexis Tsipras and his

Theresa Party, a coalition of different leftist splintered groups.

In the United States, a lot of people were explicitly saying that this is the model

which the American left should follow. From Jacobin, which was

talking about Corbyn as a blueprint for the American left, to politicians like

Rilcana, the congressman from California who said that the

European left was both morally and strategically right. Well a few years on it does not look like that any more. The extent of the

reversal of fortunes for a lot of the left is astounding and has not sufficiently been noticed on this side of the ocean.

Jeremy Corbyn has been completely out of step with most of his young base which ones loved him

in essentially wanting to take Britain out of the European Union and even opposing a membership in the single market and

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