Abstract

European Socialism is going through one of the most difficult times of its long history. Socialist parties survive taking advantage of their glorious past; socialism is not vital anymore and it looks folly subdued to laissez faire ideology. In this situation, pessimism and nostalgia are real risks. But there is no socialism without progressivism, without some kind of hope in the future. In order to regain trust in the future, socialist thinkers should turn the attention away from politics and pay attention to what is going on in society. If they did it so, they could realize that many fields of social life are going spontaneously through a process of radical democratization.