Yes, true, Digg management tried to leverage their user base for profit and appeal to corporate customers and advertisers, but they did it when the 2008 elections were ongoing and at the same time they also sold out to the hard
left socialist movement.
Not exact matches
The Popular Unity Candidacy joins a line of far -
left movements seizing the political momentum in Europe, from Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far -
left Podemos
movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore
socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour Party.
This concept was supported vigorously by important labor and
left - wing Zionist groups, including the radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ameri
left - wing Zionist groups, including the radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz
movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah
socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (
Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ameri
Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America).
Interestingly, this protest
movement does not seem to be drawing inspiration from a purely
left - wing or right - wing agenda; although it is the «founding fathers» of the Israeli right that are frequently quoted and praised (perhaps nostalgically) rather than the country's
socialist founders.
There are 6 candidates running against Kirchner, from my understanding each mainly center - to - far
left wing, including a
socialist, a Radical party candidate, a
left - wing workers front, and two candidates representing splinter
movements within Kirchner's own Peronist
movement.
The challenge for the Scottish Labour
left is to put these
socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned
socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad
movement for socialism.
The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the
movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour
left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the
left of the Labour Party, such as The
Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Fascism was in some ways partially offshoot of Socialism (and thus more
left than right)- its father Mussolini used to be a
Socialist before deciding on a new
movement that was neither right nor
left.
Despite the loftiness of much
left - wing rhetoric, sexism, racism and homophobia have never successfully been eliminated from
socialist politics for the simple reason that these
movements reflect the societies in which they were conceived.
In 2004 and 2006, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton were challenged by David McReynolds and Howie Hawkins who, while running as Green Party candidates, were veterans of the antiwar
movement of the sixties and seventies as members of the
Socialist Party USA (the most direct link between the SPA and the New
Left).
Liz Kendall thinks the
left has an issue with women and — from the union
movement to the
Socialist Worker Party furore — there's a lot of evidence to suggest she's right.
I tend to have
left wing views on most issues, but I have never been comfortable with the orthodoxy (which most of the
Socialist movement shares with extreme right wing neo-liberals) that open borders and population growth are inherently good things.