The long drawn out economic and political tensions, for instance, in Latin America have moved the Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Evo Morales trio towards an international agenda for social reconstruction within which socialism does not need to be replaced but must be put forward as a programme to salvage a world from inequality and the abuse of power, especially the hegemony of the White House.
The insistence that the egalitarian project of the Left was a product of a specific historical epoch and that it now has no place in a "post socialist" world is a serious allegation and rather off the mark when one considers the recent steps taken by Chavez in sending grants up to $41 billion to Cuba and in return getting the much needed medical servcies offered by thousands of trained Cuban doctors. He along with other Latin American leaders, has moved socialism back on to the centre stage.
It is, therefore, clear that within the context of the structural transformation of capitalism that has led to the decline of the classical working class and the generation of new forms of social protest, the Left has moved towards a new identity, so visible in the communist comeback in Russia, in France, and now in Latin America.
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