Are we going to see the growth of socialist, left wing parties in the western world now?

[andrew w]

Yes.

It is wrong to confuse the Republican Party, or in the UK the Labour Party with socialism. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats, Labour or the Tories offer any alternative to capitalism. We need a party for ordinary working class people which would fight for a socialist programme.- not a party funded by big business, which does the bidding of the bosses and uses billions to prop up the capitalist system, but can't invest money in wages for public sector workers, or decent public services.

And Shevek is right too (has he read 'The Dispossessed' by the way??) there is a danger of the far right gaining ground as well - the only way to stop this is by organising ourselves to undercut their lies.