Why doesn't the Left have a real vision?

[Chris Burford]

Because the "left" prefers to be oppositional. It prefers to be sectarian.
It uses ideas to separate itself morally from the rest of the population.
It uses the Communist Manifesto in its coffee table edition. It is
moralistic rather than scientific. It shits, as you were shat upon, on
people for considering reforms, because that is not revolutionary enough.
It prefers revolutionary cycnicism. It ignores the hundreds of thousands of
good people trying to change the world.

 
Its real contribution to revolution is that of the revolutionary socialite,
who knows which names to drop, rather than the revolutionary socialist. 

It is what Marx and Engels called petty bourgeois socialism.

Chris Burford

London