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Gysi on the EU "rescue package" for Greece | 55 comments (54 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)
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I don't think they've really moved in the social democratic space so much as they're stayed where they were while most western european parties lurched the the right.

And now, perhaps, we see who are friends have been all this time.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

by r------ on Tue Feb 28th, 2012 at 07:39:51 PM EST
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Re: Opposition? (none / 1)
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they're stayed where they were

So no change in W European Communists sparked by the disappearance of the USSR? In the PCF, for example, just the change of leadership from Georges Marchais to Robert Hue was pretty colossal...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 02:11:47 AM EST
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Major changes in policy orientation? (none / 0)
I don't think so, really. There's the change in style, of course, and in every political tendancy there are evolutions in policy over time. And the disappearance of the Soviet Union removed a major funding source and meant Georges Marchais' visits to Moscow wouldn't be repeated by Robert Hue.

The evolution to Euro-communism happened under Marchais, not after him, his statements on Afghanistan (and he in retrospect turns out to have been 100% right about Soviet intervention there) being used notably by the PS for electoral reasons to prove otherwise. Similar evolutions were occuring elsewhere, PCI notably.

The big changes came in the eastern parties, and Gysi is emblematic of this.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

by r------ on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 03:31:09 AM EST
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Re: Opposition? (4.00 / 2)
In the case of Die Linke, and the Eastern PDS in particular, the shift to Social Democracy was quite drastic and explicit. In the case of the Western WASG, you could argue it was keeping the traditional SPD positions where the SPD was moving right under Schröder.

But we split hairs...

There are three stories about the euro crisis: the Republican story, the German story, and the truth. -- Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 03:49:31 AM EST
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Re: Opposition? (4.00 / 5)
The economic programme of Die Linke is something the entire middle class could support, if they weren't ideologically blinded. It's Keynesian with even a dose of ordoliberalism, but not communist.
by Katrin on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 at 04:11:02 AM EST
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Gysi on the EU "rescue package" for Greece | 55 comments (54 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)
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