I’ve been wondering the same thing for a while now, and all the evidence I see is that yes it does. People are a lot more prone to political radicalization than they were 20 or 30 years ago. But unfortunately all I’m seeing is a growth of the far right.
Being on the left is hard, people want easy answers.
depends on what countries, the far-right are making huge gains in germany, spain, Scandinavia and eastern europe. But France, belgium and the UK I have noticed a large conscious awakening, the workers party in belgium is growing steadily over these past few years, france has seen riots against the authoritarian-liberal macron state, and the UK I’ve seen the old corrupt trade unions are now finally being replaced by new radical ones.
My analysis is that there will never be a time where europe can de-radicalise anymore, the corporations have too much power and veto anything that can take away their wealth, and the liberal democracies refuse to even implement sufficent anti-trust laws, even when companies goes against state interests! (like agri-corps funding the farmers protests in the netherlands, and blockading ukranian grain from the european market, and implementing inflation continent wide wo reap more profits). I can go on forever why this is the case but with the wealth of world being diverted from the Atlantic to the pacific is also a major factor, unlike the cold war where most of the wealth was in the western world, the global south is seeing an increase of the middle class, whereas in the west its declining. Sure propaganda will play a part, and more europeans will become insanely more racist, xenophobic, and anti-communist (because they need something else to blame other than their shitty liberal-democracies), but soon there’s going to be a wake up call.
I’ve been wondering the same thing for a while now, and all the evidence I see is that yes it does. People are a lot more prone to political radicalization than they were 20 or 30 years ago. But unfortunately all I’m seeing is a growth of the far right. Being on the left is hard, people want easy answers.
That and we’re actively fighting against the status quo, fascists actually support it
depends on what countries, the far-right are making huge gains in germany, spain, Scandinavia and eastern europe. But France, belgium and the UK I have noticed a large conscious awakening, the workers party in belgium is growing steadily over these past few years, france has seen riots against the authoritarian-liberal macron state, and the UK I’ve seen the old corrupt trade unions are now finally being replaced by new radical ones.
My analysis is that there will never be a time where europe can de-radicalise anymore, the corporations have too much power and veto anything that can take away their wealth, and the liberal democracies refuse to even implement sufficent anti-trust laws, even when companies goes against state interests! (like agri-corps funding the farmers protests in the netherlands, and blockading ukranian grain from the european market, and implementing inflation continent wide wo reap more profits). I can go on forever why this is the case but with the wealth of world being diverted from the Atlantic to the pacific is also a major factor, unlike the cold war where most of the wealth was in the western world, the global south is seeing an increase of the middle class, whereas in the west its declining. Sure propaganda will play a part, and more europeans will become insanely more racist, xenophobic, and anti-communist (because they need something else to blame other than their shitty liberal-democracies), but soon there’s going to be a wake up call.