On the left we have the social-democrats (sp.a), the green party and pvda-ptb. The sp.a is a joke since they’re basically neoliberals that refuse to work with us since we’re “populists”. Their head guy recently explained in an article that he doesn’t read any political theory and that he would’ve become an influencer if politics hadn’t worked out

What?

Pvda-ptb is our ML party that has been consistently growing for a while. I’m honestly pretty proud of them since they work hard to criticize the current auterity politics and at the same time spread marxist theory (I’ve been active with them for about a year now and I’ve learned an incredible amount), also Medicine For The People is amazing. I really can’t praise them enough since they’ve managed to become mainstream without falling to opportunism.

Good job :sankara-salute:

At the same time the fascists are also gaining a lot of votes in Flanders and the center-right party is moving a lot further to the right. The issue is that the fascists (Vlaams Belang) are using anti-austerity rethoric but blaming the immigrants (mostly the muslims) instead of the capitalists. This makes it easy for the mainstream press to equate far-left with far-right and denounce both as populists because they both criticize the current neoliberal hegemony. “VB hates muslims and pvda hates the rich so they must both be equally bad.”

I sense a pattern on the right throughout Europe.

On another note, is Flanders relatively industrial compared to the French speaking part?