Too far left, really, the PSS?
Fifty sections (Alemannic) Socialist Party of Switzerland, who in the craw of revising the party platform adopted and radicalized during the last congress in Lausanne, the party requesting reopening the discussion on the program . Topping the list of choices to which the right of the SSP would like to return: support for the principle of abolishing the army, support the principle of joining the European Union, the affirmation of the desire to "beyond capitalism" and not just manage it and the socialize ... And all in chorus of whining about a "left turn" of the PSS, which corresponds to our wishes, is still far from being a reality.
A left turn after seventy-five years of right turns .. .
That part of the traditional base of the PS has some difficulty in accepting the choice activists (as the Congress shall be composed, not as representatives of voters, but officials activists, elected by them, and not as representatives of contributing members, but inactive), is a tradition within the PSS. A very old tradition, moreover: when full Great War, the PSS adheres to the views from the pacifist left socialist conferences at Zimmerwald the base does not follow. It does not follow the convention that will decide, as a first step, after the Russian Revolution, to join the PSS to the Third International (although it has also taken to give it up). She never followed this traditional base, the choices left most of congress, and directions of the party. It does not always follow. Nevertheless, these choices have been made at the democratic convention, backed by a majority of delegates of sections that had to decide, prior to the Congress on all proposals, delegates who have received specific voting instructions -or, if they have not received, or if the section does not discuss is that we had specifically dealing with a basic amorphous sections and atonic, not waking up, start, once taken decisions which they could take part and to which they have not been able to take part. And then five minutes let's be serious: what 'left turn PSS "Do we talk about in these sections, the right wing of the party-and in the newspapers? To manifest one's adherence to the principle of the abolition of an outdated institution and parasitic (the army)? from that which would result in the recognition of the obvious that Switzerland, in the heart of Europe would do better to join the European Union rather than to implement decisions without being able to participate? Or even that which would be expressed by the expectation of a "beyond capitalism," and by finding the meaning of a project which alone can justify the existence of a socialist party? If "left turn" it is, it succeeds as a "right turn", since 1937, we are still far from the goal would be to redo the PSS a real socialist party. Even though it meant losing in the first time voters. The commentator explains the time that voters seriously Socialists, alarmed that the PS will be placed to the left of the Greens, have fled "to the Greens or Liberal Party bourgeois democratic" ... but what these voters did not care to vote for the PS? A PS to the left, it pleases necessarily less a country to right a PS right. The question remains what and who could serve well, even in a country on the right, a PS that is no longer left. Of right-wing party and additional redundant, somewhere between the UDC, the HWP, the PDC, the PBD, the Greens and Liberal Evangelicals?
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