Last decades of political life in Europe showed the gradual shift of many political parties to neo-liberal policies. From the other point of view the left very often are doing what right do, and the opposite - there is no any more clear left-right boundaries which existed in seventies-eighties of last century. What is the future for political spectrum in Europe?
I think that similarities programs between traditionally Right and Left and common project "integrating" them, will make free space for radical groups such as is happening in Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Germany. Facing radicalism (with overtones nationalism) I think that will be the challenge of the next two decades in most countries / European regions.
Dear Afrim,
But how to stop these tendencies? How to get inspiration for traditional left and right in globalization and postmodernist era? One postmodernism itself is destroying left and right enough, how to get rid of these negative influences?
Arvydas
It is intellectually difficult to defend dismantling things like universal health care or public education, so the right can't paint the left into that corner. Meanwhile, it's intellectually difficult to defend that everything should have zero fees because people will overuse them, for example studying additional degrees that they never plan to use, and so the left can't so easily pain the right into the corner of being anti people for wanting to charge fees for things.
I think left-right bodies of thought still very much exist, but the areas of most acrimonious disagreement are now largely agreed on, and the disagreement is 1% this way or 1% that way, not open or close whole ways of doing things. So now election campaigns are not fought on the same divisions, and we will see different sorts of divisions emerge after previous areas of disagreement become essentially intellectually indefensible, except for matters of marginal difference (should fees rise a bit, should access improve a bit, etc.)
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