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@pnathan @dartigen I beg to differ. It was not the focus on decentralization (which even today is hardly a "mainstream left" topic) that disempowered the left, but rather the lack of credible proposals to counteract the neoliberal paradigm, which spread like wildfire across the west. Millions of jobs were moved to China or elsewhere, de facto destroying the very concept of "working class" the left relied on. Nostalgia-ridden discourse and an ageing leadership did the rest...