"The Left Can Win"

[Associate Justice PiT]

I think you have just shown why the Left will keep losing elections.

Do you have the correct diagnosis and the recipe to save the European Left from disaster? It'd be a good thing to know both. Out of irony, it'd be good a comeback of socialdemocracy... or a reinvention which doesn't imply losing its former spirit into some kind of third-way socio-liberalism or, even worse, a carbon-copy of right-wing xenophobic populism. I wish to see tyranny overthrown one day, if possible.

     Few people care about being "correct". Offering that sort of dry, bloodless argument simply does not persuade your average voter, and the use of academic jargon only makes it less compelling. Before people can believe in your position, they have to believe that you believe in it.

[Associate Justice PiT]

You don't get it. Being "correct" on the diagnosis concerns those who design the strategy. Being clear and convincing to common people concerns those who play on a stand. In other words: academic jargon is for academicians, "Bread and Peace" is for speakers. Is it difficult to understand?

     I get what you are referring to there, but I think there is a more fundamental issue to consider that extends far beyond the left-wing; what value do academics have in the process?