Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come. The rise and rapid decay of left-wing governments in France, Greece and Brazil is not the result of a military coup, nor is it due to the machinations of the CIA. The debacle of left governments is a result of deliberate political decisions, which break decisively with the progressive programs, promises and commitments that political leaders had made to the great mass of working and middle class voters who elected them. Increasingly, the electorate views the leftist rulers as traitors, who betrayed their supporters at the beck and call of their most egregious class enemies: the bankers, the capitalists and the neo-liberal ideologue….
I don't see this abandonment of the left as malicious but rather the result of ignorance. The left simply does not have a clear vision, policy, strategy and tactics worked out for actually governing from the left. Lack this, they are forced back on neoliberalism lite, but they can't even seem to get that together either. I would add other leftist governments such as Maduro's in Venezuela. The rest is a rise of the right by default as people seeking an alternative to what's not working for them get fed up and look elsewhere for solutions. Global Research
Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self DestructionJames Petras | Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada