THE NEW LEFT AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT

The Left Ideology has determined the life of a lot of societies around the world, and it is a process based on historical materialism, a theory which tries to explain the history of humanity through the class struggle between those who owned the means of production and the oppressed class. However, the world witnessed the failure of the Soviet model but also that the fall of the Berlin Wall did not defeat socialism and its attempts to achieve social justice and equality.

This monograph wants to proclaim that the new projections of the Left are based on democracy as a principle of relation and life. In the past the left thought that the traditional socialist prescriptions were applicable to all societies but now we know that every country has different social characteristics and that the world does not bear violent changes any more. The New Left has to practice a new vision of development based on satisfying people’s basic needs, not on market destruction. The socialist political projects are winning elections around the Earth and that constitutes the historical affirmation that the left can come to power by democratic means and start social revolutions as Salvador Allende dreamt.

Socialism has to accept that democracy is the recovery of everyone’s rights, that everybody’s liberties are the condition for one person’s liberties. The Left as an Alternative for Development is a declaration that tries to guide the leftist political actors in order to assume that power is a tool for service and has to be exercised guaranteeing deep democracy and people’s liberties. Also this monograph tries to explain the role of young people while improving our democracy and development.