Calling yourself left wing doesn't mean you are left wing

Imagine if socialism was a thing then.

The US has no left wing leaders.

It was fake reform BTW. It was never meant to last and you are a fool if you believed it was supposed to.

Liberals are not left wing they are centrist.

In 1934, a nationwide strike wave brought the us economy to its knees. Cities all along the trans continental railroad went on strike. Minneapolis had been basically completely taken over by a Trotskyist vanguard party, whose non-violent political tactics subverted police and big business interests at every turn. After the police shooting of two union dock workers in San Francisco on bloody Thursday, 160 unions initiated a 4 day general strike. In 1935, we got our new deal.

Workers, fed up with their conditions and inspired by socialist organizing, won a New Deal for ourselves. Giving credit to FDR for it, is ahistorical. It is exactly the sort of ruling class mythologies held and perpetuated by liberal elites. FDR was trying to rescue capitalism from the workers who had organized into a force capable of bringing it down, and seizing the means of production for the workers.

Despite the rational reforms FDR and Keynesian economics brought to the US economy, all of those reforms have been rolled back. That is because only the workers are able to win a rational economic system through struggle, it will never be given to us by some president who is beholden to the class that holds all the power and money.

There were many factors that contributed to disabling the American radical militant workers movement. Some was liberal meddling, and right wing regressive collaboration with regressive big business. But one thing that gets overlooked is how our movements were dismantled by Stalin's Comintern, who caused splits and purges in our movements along the lines of loyalty to the Stalinist bureaucracy.

So completely blaming liberalism isn't totally accurate either, unless you consider Stalin to be a liberal or a comprador (which honestly I think is kind of true.)

I try to be easy on liberals, I think progressive liberals are basically allies, at least when their illusions doesn't get in the way of principled struggle. But don't be confused by the mythology of FDR. Great man theory is a myth, only great movements of workers are capable of positive change under capitalism.