A New Vision on an Old System

A New Vision on an Old System is a book about the current role socialism plays in the world and ofcourse in Lovia. It is inspired by some charters wrote when she was a member of the MPSJ (Mouvement Parisiene des Jeunes Socialistes). The work serves as an inspiration to the Lovian socialist parties and is devided into five chapters:
 * 1) Can left still dream: talks about how the socialist parties of today compromise to much. This causes them to loose sight off their true ideals.
 * 2) The New Socialism of the 21st century: chapter on how we should - and could - create a New Socialism in the 21st century. It shows the vision of a worldwide struggle against capitalism and neo-colonialism.

Chapter 1: Can left still dream?
Today, 40 years after Mai '68, the traditional social-democratic ideas are stuck in a defensive position. This is so in many places and for as many reasons: we do not need to look to the other side of the wall to see the ruins of the socialist utopy. Left politics are driven into a corner, but they have to blame mainy.. themselves! Left has been lazy. It didn't think enough, it wanted to be to much. A lot of socialist parties are alienated from thier very origins. They thought to much about how to win the next elections instead of concerning about how to become - and stay - a real socialist party. They should be thinking about unequality and capitalism and how to protect the poor, instead of trying to win more votes.

The original coalition between the lower class, the sympathizising part of the middle class and some enlighted intellectuals has been outlived by the 'correct thinking' of the political parties. The socialist spirit has been lost somewhere along the way and caused the lower classes to switch to an often right alternatif. The correct thinking has swept those very things the people wanted to talk about from the topic list. Things like safety and family, things the socialist parties now need to earn back. All of this is joined by the fact that left has agreed in a logic that closes down factories, causing a majority of the middle class to get hit by the ucertainties of our modern capitalism.

The social model is being destroied, even though its socialist governing for decennia. Poverty is growing in all kinds of new and old forms. After allowing to close down the 'Third Road', left has been considered as long lost pragmatism. But without illusion, pragmatism and the art of leading a government are merely techniques. This shows just what socialism is missing: a soul and a vision. Left once stood for 'moving the beakens', but somewhere between once and now the instrument became the purpose. My question is a simple one: "Can left still dream?"

Chapter 2: The New Socialism of the 21st century
It is clear that New Socialism, where the people recover control of their economy, culture, and political system on a community-based way, is not something we can build up in a year. But how could the socialist idea be restored through the New Socialism wich makes part of the struggle against neo-liberalism? First, socialist parties have to put tendencies into practice. Second, we have to strengthen the capacity to organize communities within our own society. There are people everywhere who are fragmented and oppressed by the ideas of neo-colonialism, which is a tendency that coms directly from neo-liberalism. On a worldwide scale, we see the same happening in poorer and ex-socialist countries. In a lot of those nations there is a huge potential for incorporating wealth through industry and production. They suffer however due to the greed of the western governments and multinationals that sufficate those new markets. Socialist parties and western societies have the duty to defend the rights of the people of those countries in the struggle against neo-liberalism. But in a lot of western countries the socialist ideal has been fading away, like said in the former chapter.

How well the old unity of workers in the communist movement based on unionizing the industry is gone, the working class has not disappeared. Instead there are more new workers now than ever before. Not only the growth of the worlds' population, but also the emancipation of women have contributed to that. The only thing that still stands in the way of New Socialism is that the working class was left unorganized and fragmented after the fall of socialism in 1991. Finding a new way, revolutionaries have to recreate a new workers movement composed of people with different perspectives. They have to be grouped by neighborhoods, states and occupation, no longer by working place as is currently the case with unions. Now the workers are divided, they don’t make a tight community. We need to put everything in the work to empower a nation-wide workers movement. Only that way we will be able to generate the potential for a socialism of the 21st century.

We can undertake these actions in our own country, state, city or town, but the acts of one person alone are not enough. Like so, one state or one country to fight alone is not enough either. That’s because neo-liberalism and capitalism are a planetary construct. The only way to transcend a worldwide system is to invoke another one. When will we be able to invoke this expanding worldwide struggle for rights and wealth everywhere?

Appendix
Following are some terms that might need a further explenation in order to fully comprehend the text:
 * Communism: oldest form of socialism, in the text specifically the one that united the working class from 1948 untill 1991. Some well-known derived forms and specifications are Leninism, Stalinism and Titoism. In China there rules still a form of communism.
 * Correct thinking: Political term for a weaker policy in order to gain popularity and votes. The same system can be used to weaken the content of a parties agenda so that a coalition could function more easy.
 * Neo-collonialism: A form of the economical suffication of poorer countries by western multinationals. This way, rich countries can strengten their might over other nations, thus forming a neo-collony. It is directly related to neo-liberalism.
 * Neo-liberalism: A current form of liberalism wich contains international capitalism and opens up a way for neo-collonialism.
 * New Socialism: A form of socialism that is rising in the begining of the 21st century. It is a vision of a worldwide socialist movement. It has some things in common with communism and represents the opposite of neo-liberalism.
 * Socialism: General term for all kinds of socialism and communism. Often used for the current politics that are based upon the protection of the lower classes' rights.