Banners bore the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's proclamation "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever!" There might be challenges to the globalized liberal order, but they would come from Islamism or China's state capitalism, no longer a discredited Marxism.
China and Russia both deploy symbols of their Communist heritage to strengthen an anti-liberal nationalism; in the West, confidence in free-market capitalism has not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, and new forces of the far right and activist left vie for popularity.
In America, the unexpected strength of the independent socialist Bernie Sanders in last year's Democratic race, and in Spain, the electoral gains of the new Podemos party, led by a former Communist, are …show more content…
A member of a group named Revolutionary Struggle who tried to inspire a Communist uprising among autoworkers in 1971, he later became a leader of the German Green Party.
The emergence from the late '70s of an American-led order dominated by global markets, followed by the fall of Soviet Communism in the late '80s, caused a crisis for the radical left everywhere.
Fischer, like many other 1960s students, adapted to the new world: As German foreign minister, he supported the 1999 American bombing over Kosovo (against the forces of the former Communist Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic), and he backed Germany's welfare cuts in 2003.
In the South, the International Monetary Fund forced market reforms on indebted post-Communist countries, and some former Communist elites proved eager converts to neoliberalism.
Only a handful of nominally Communist states now remain: North Korea and Cuba, and the more capitalist China, Vietnam and Laos.
A new left might then succeed in uniting the losers, both white-collar and blue-collar, in the new economic
China and Russia both deploy symbols of their Communist heritage to strengthen an anti-liberal nationalism; in the West, confidence in free-market capitalism has not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, and new forces of the far right and activist left vie for popularity.
In America, the unexpected strength of the independent socialist Bernie Sanders in last year's Democratic race, and in Spain, the electoral gains of the new Podemos party, led by a former Communist, are …show more content…
A member of a group named Revolutionary Struggle who tried to inspire a Communist uprising among autoworkers in 1971, he later became a leader of the German Green Party.
The emergence from the late '70s of an American-led order dominated by global markets, followed by the fall of Soviet Communism in the late '80s, caused a crisis for the radical left everywhere.
Fischer, like many other 1960s students, adapted to the new world: As German foreign minister, he supported the 1999 American bombing over Kosovo (against the forces of the former Communist Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic), and he backed Germany's welfare cuts in 2003.
In the South, the International Monetary Fund forced market reforms on indebted post-Communist countries, and some former Communist elites proved eager converts to neoliberalism.
Only a handful of nominally Communist states now remain: North Korea and Cuba, and the more capitalist China, Vietnam and Laos.
A new left might then succeed in uniting the losers, both white-collar and blue-collar, in the new economic