Abstract
This chapter describes and analyses the class struggle and the socialist Left in the years between 1980 and 2016. Lust argues that the high tide of the class struggle from below in the 1980s masked the structural weakening of the class struggle in the same decade. In the 1990s, the class struggle from above managed to significantly reduce the strength of the socialist Left and the trade unions. This class struggle caused an epochal change. In the first 16 years of the third millennium, the social-democratic Left has started to recuperate its forces. However, it seems that the socialist Left has been thrown back to the era of primitive political, ideological, and organizational accumulation. The vanguard of the class struggle is located in the countryside.
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