My dear fellow Sup Forumsaks, let me offer you the true RED pill.
As someone who has frequented this site and board for almost a decade now, it is beyond me how you've all missed a specific context of the events in the world around us. Lately, you've, without knowing it seems, started to hit upon some of the points of the proper left, but other things cloud your mind at this time.
Let me explain what I mean by the proper left. In its essence its the value of work, work and work with a pinch of equality on different sides.
The proper left gives value to work and products of work rather then to financial value of the product. The great battle of the second half of 20th century could be described as a conflict between the idea where surplus emerges. In the factory or on the market? Needless to say, the market won, for now.
Left cares about the worker, working and producing, being connected to his work rather than completely abstracted. It wants the worker to get his fair share, to have the right to the full fruits of his labour. Over a century after the Manifesto has been written, we've seen quite a few renderings of how this could come about, but this is the value at it's core.
As for equality, the proper left wants equality between men and women, in rights and especially in the labour section of our society. And as a bit of a disclaimer, before there are people who say that women in the workforce mean less kids, while history and demographics of earlier ages disprove this, I won't go further into this but to point out that the left idea for a division of the day is called the triple eight 8/8/8. Eight hours of sleep, eight hours of work and eight hours of family life. With state subsides day cares and kindergardens, family was a really important part of the lefts idea.