The European left had been fully and completely defeated by the fascists in the 1920s-30s. Fascism was literally invented by the liberals to stop communism in Europe. It took millions upon millions of lives to defeat that first wave of Fascism in Europe.
Post-war European left took the completely opposite direction by aligning with Capital - the so-called Keynesian social democratic model - to distance themselves from the scary totalitarian “Stalinism”. It bought the European working class 30 years of truce with Capital, during which European labor re-built the subcontinent and enjoyed certain welfare and power afforded to them by Capital, until they were no longer needed and their effort instead paved the way to neoliberalism and the return of fascism which the European left has no answer for, because they were too busy distancing themselves from the Soviet Union.
The European left had been fully and completely defeated by the fascists in the 1920s-30s. Fascism was literally invented by the liberals to stop communism in Europe. It took millions upon millions of lives to defeat that first wave of Fascism in Europe.
Post-war European left took the completely opposite direction by aligning with Capital - the so-called Keynesian social democratic model - to distance themselves from the scary totalitarian “Stalinism”. It bought the European working class 30 years of truce with Capital, during which European labor re-built the subcontinent and enjoyed certain welfare and power afforded to them by Capital, until they were no longer needed and their effort instead paved the way to neoliberalism and the return of fascism which the European left has no answer for, because they were too busy distancing themselves from the Soviet Union.