>>375585>Thank you! I am not the best at writing so I appreciate it. However as I know in Finland the left is really struggling there, just as in Sweden. Is there really any hope for a resurgent left in trying to overcome the social democratic quagmire?Right now the situation seems hopeless in the short term. The Social Democratic party is still rather strong and is associated heavily as the Left in the minds of workers. Aside from this we have the Left Alliance (which I'll for now call VL) which is a satanic abomonation of a radlib party. For my entire life they've staid at 8%, give or take 1%, and they seem to be quite happy occupying this position. They're a thoroughly, completely bourgeoisfied "big tent" party for radlibs.
Aside from these, we have two Communist parties. SKP and KTP. Both are miniscule and isolated. KTP is the more "based" in terms of theory, but they have more historical baggage than actual future potential, as I judge it. They're like monks preserving the integrity of ML theory against opportunist revisionism or whatever, but what good is a revolutionary vanguard that's completely cut off from the masses? I was shortly a member of this party, and while I respect them, I don't see a future there. SKP are a bunch of radlibs, even cringier than the VL.
The VL does have some working class base in the construction trades, nurses and rural workers of the North. But the party is led by a Finnish-Swedish rich kid intellectual, and her ilk has completely taken charge. They take their working class support for granted, and don't seem to wonder at all why literally all frustration at SocDems is channeled to the far right rather than left. They're just not interested in truly radical politics, or even basic class politics.
It all seems very bleak. My only position now is to try building working class consciousness from within the union movement, community organizing or something along those lines. Actual proles, even the ones who sympathize the far right, are pretty smart and easilly open to persuasion and solidarity. I think part of the problem is that the history of class struggle in Finland is particularilly bloody and difficult, more so than in other Nordic countries. Workers actually appreciare Social Democracy for this reason, and are ultimately reluctant to take up the arms of class war once again.
I'm still hopeful though. I can't see it right now, but there's something brewing. I also believe that once the class concsious starts taking shape, it will also be all the more militant.
To put it in another way: In some Western countries, especially Burgerland, you can see a willingness and curiosity for some kind of class consciousness, but people don't quite know what it entails and how to get there. In Finland there's an obvious necessity and growing preassure for class consciousness, but people do know what it entails and what it'll take, so they are reluctant and unwilling.
What I find difficult to understand is, why does Norway have so much better (if still not good) situation with the Left. If you were to guess, what would you say is the difference between the conditions of the Left in Norway and Sweden, for example?