[makomk]

Of course, progressive politics of the kind you talk about is entirely compatible with neoliberalism. So to the extent that the Left is primarily focused on those things and demands that people subsume other concerns to them, it ceases to provide any opposition to neoliberalism. Which is why the Economist can be described as left-leaning - the world hasn't shifted to the right, though that's a convenient way for the people on the left who've abandoned these causes to shift blame elsewhere, instead the axis along which the two are divided is twisting sideways.