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That doesn’t really make them left-leaning. With the same argument the CDU would be a left-leaning party.
by Semaphor 5y ago
That doesn’t really make them left-leaning. With the same argument the CDU would be a left-leaning party.
- rainworld 5y agoA tempting conclusion if you look at Germany’s transformation since the war. But what does left-leaning even mean. Before Occupy Wall Street went down in flames, (actual, hard) leftist liked to critique the false dichotomy between what’s presented as left-wing and right-wing politics in western democracies, and they were very right to do so. What I wrote here about media applies to politics just as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904146