Adrian Zandberg, a Polish presidential candidate from the left-wing Razem (Together) party, has called for a major investment in nuclear technology, saying that Poland needs at least eight nuclear reactors to secure its energy future.
To be completely fair though, Zandberg and much of Razem’s present day management does have a part with Młodzi Socjaliści, an actuslly socialist youth group, and even as recently as 2023 Zandberg admitted that they’re market socialists (whether that actually counts as socialist or not is beside the point and even then that is still substantially closer to workers owning the means of production than the Third Way variant of social democracy that Nowa Lewica, the left-wing party in our current government, currently supports).
That being said, “leftist” is a somewhat derogatory term. Had this article’s title been written with the identical language in Polish, it might’ve used “lewak” which is fully derogatory towards people with left-wing beliefs (or if you’re far-right also towards liberals).
His party are social democrats
To be completely fair though, Zandberg and much of Razem’s present day management does have a part with Młodzi Socjaliści, an actuslly socialist youth group, and even as recently as 2023 Zandberg admitted that they’re market socialists (whether that actually counts as socialist or not is beside the point and even then that is still substantially closer to workers owning the means of production than the Third Way variant of social democracy that Nowa Lewica, the left-wing party in our current government, currently supports).
That being said, “leftist” is a somewhat derogatory term. Had this article’s title been written with the identical language in Polish, it might’ve used “lewak” which is fully derogatory towards people with left-wing beliefs (or if you’re far-right also towards liberals).
Then I’m sure this journalist can use this term instead of “leftists” which says nothing about ideology.
Tbf they are speaking to a Polish audience who would recognize what the term ‘leftist’ means in their culture.