How the Left Can Rise Again

By Denis MacShane | NEWSWEEK
Published May 30, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jun 8, 2009

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  • Posted By: yitongwu @ 06/10/2009 4:20:15 AM

    You are too optimistic of Shanghai as a global financial cener. As you mention in the article Hong Kong still has the advantage of a fully convertible currency as well as rule of law. The legal system offinancial market in Shanghai is not only unreliable but also imposible in the near future to become free and open unless
    china can successful transform into a mature democratic nation.Recent Chinese government measure to control information in Internet implies that Chinese government still lacks of confidence of her people and far from the possibility to transform into a free society from an authoritarian state in a foreseeable future.

  • Posted By: Divashels @ 06/03/2009 1:47:33 PM

    Tree hugging liberals are a major problem anywhere. And why all the anti-Americanism ? Jealous ? Europe talks a big game but truth be told they will wait for us to make whatever moves and will either copy us or stand back do nothing at all and blame us for it which seems to be the road they have choose. How ever when i read things like this it reminds me why my ancestors
    left Sweden and Ireland cause they knew how messed up Europe is and took a chance on America Thank You to Grandparents for making the trip here .

    • Posted By: lovedeedee @ 06/07/2009 1:54:56 PM

      No, you, are the problem ! educate yourself, google how capitalism is destroying our natural world.. All the facts are there.

    • Posted By: soproudliberal @ 06/07/2009 1:52:14 PM

    • Posted By: zz333 @ 06/05/2009 9:52:39 AM

      I agree, now all we need to do is to minimize the effect of this "do gooders" who sincerely believe that the govt. is the solution to all your answers. This is going to be a tough fight, because momma's t$ts are getting larger.

  • Posted By: lovedeedee @ 06/07/2009 1:52:46 PM

    The facts seem to point otherwise.

    "Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations."

  • Posted By: soproudliberal @ 06/07/2009 1:47:19 PM

    bagelmaven
    I was speaking about Europe mainly but it holds true in the US too. Still, I FIRMLY believe the RIGHT IS WRONG nearly ALWAYS and in the end Reagan RAISED ... let me say that again RAISED taxes because he KNEW he had to. His philosophy has been in play for the past thirty or more years and it brought us to the edge of a catastrophic cliff in the economy and it brought us 9/11 too on the idiot's watch. When government works CORRECTLY it IS a solution to the most intractable politics of utter GREED and corruption known to man.

    What is so lovely about the right? I idiotic moronic social politics based on superstition and myth, rancid hatred of all kinds of ethnicities except WHITE MEN and corporate insanity and deregulation gone amok. So don't tell me about the glories of the right wing...they STINK even more than anything else!

  • Posted By: zz333 @ 06/05/2009 9:47:41 AM

    Mr. Mcshane is so blatant abou this affection for socialism. This article reeks!

  • Posted By: concerned liberal @ 06/03/2009 11:11:44 AM

    Just as I thought, democracy, socialism, capitaism, communism, republicanism no longer anything close to the textbook definitions and everyone has its' own form of citIzen abuse and human rights issues!

  • Posted By: froy1100 @ 05/31/2009 10:16:07 AM

    "They campaigned against the Iraq War, and saw voters reject the war's opponents, like Gerhard Schröder, and reelect leaders like Blair or Berlusconi, who fought to remove Saddam Hussein and let Iraqis hold elections."

    Mr McShane seems to forget that the large majority of Europeans was overtly opposed to the criminal and fraudulent invasion of Iraq, and that support for this insane crusade brought about the downfall of Spain's right wing PM, Jose Maria Aznar (whose party lost against the socialists that still govern Spain) and also meant the alienation of the Britons towards their previously worshipped leader Mr Blair.

    And let's face it, since Tony Blair, Labour has as much of a left-wing political party as the US's Democrats. Just a friendlier face for the same old policies.

    As John Pilger said: "Since Margaret Thatcher, British parliamentary democracy has been progressively destroyed as the two main parties have converged into a single-ideology business state, each with almost identical social, economic and foreign policies. This ???project??? was completed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, inspired by the political monoculture of the United States. That so many Labour and Tory politicians are now revealed as personally crooked is no more than a metaphor for the anti-democratic system they have forged together."

    http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/06/pilger-blair-iraq-british-mps

    • Posted By: froy1100 @ 05/31/2009 10:47:33 AM

      Mr McShane also seems to try to mislead us when stating that Italians voted against the left-wing war opponents. Berlusconi was there in power since 2001, before the war, but in 2003 his Casa delle Libertà lost the local elections, in the 2005 regional elections the centre-left gubernatorial candidates won in 12 out of 14 regions where control of local governments and governorships was at stake. And finally in the 2006 general elections the pro-war Berlusconi was finally ousted by the anti-war center-left leader Romano Prodi. Il Cavaliere only returned in 2008 after several shadowy moves in Prodi's coalition that ultimately took down his government.

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