What Does the Left Have to Offer?

The old disputes between right and left still stir emotions. In one of the first European parliaments, His Majesty’s opponents sat on his left (clearly, the worse side), while the supporters of Dynasty, Law, and Order were seated to his right. Today, the [Communist] party that until recently claimed the exclusive right to govern Poland now increasingly lays claim to what it calls “the traditions of the left.” It proclaims its goal to be “a coalition of left-wing forces...