{"id":2451,"date":"2016-12-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/politische-linke-zu-schwach-zu-mutlos-zu-wenig-verbunden"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:42:01","slug":"political-left-too-weak-too-discouraged-too-little-connected","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/politische-linke-zu-schwach-zu-mutlos-zu-wenig-verbunden","title":{"rendered":"Political left: too weak, too discouraged, too unconnected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__item\">\n<h1 class=\"article-heading\"><span class=\"article-heading__kicker\">Political left<\/span><span class=\"visually-hidden\">: <\/span><span class=\"article-heading__title\">Too weak, too discouraged, too disconnected<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"summary\">In times of national populism, a social democratic response is needed. But the left in Europe is not making any progress. Why not build a new left axis?<\/div>\n<div class=\"summary\">An anyalysis by our curator Robert Misik on ZEIT.online<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Misik PoliticalLeft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/politik\/2016-12\/politische-linke-europa-sozialdemokratie-neoliberalismus-nationalismus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To the article. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/misik_2-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail_480x240 lazyload\" alt=\"Robert Misik\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/misik_2-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/misik_2-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/misik_2-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/misik_2-1.jpg 587w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/500;\" data-original-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2452,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2451","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Politische Linke: Zu schwach, zu mutlos, zu wenig verbunden - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/political-left-too-weak-too-discouraged-too-little-connected\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Politische Linke: Zu schwach, zu mutlos, zu wenig verbunden - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Politische Linke: Zu schwach, zu mutlos, zu wenig verbunden In Zeiten des Nationalpopulismus br&auml;uchte es eine sozialdemokratische Antwort. 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