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To state the obvious, Europe has far-left as well. And no they are not the ruling parties - who enable healthcare, kindergartens, pensions and other measures so
by soco 3y ago
To state the obvious, Europe has far-left as well. And no they are not the ruling parties - who enable healthcare, kindergartens, pensions and other measures sometimes mistakenly referred as "far left".
- throwaway40748 3y ago[flagged]
- nforgerit 3y agoNo ofc he's not. But it's taught that he introduced social reforms (together with von Metternich) for keeping the (at that time) aspiring social democrats out of power.
- littlestymaar 3y ago> sometimes mistakenly referred as "far left". Not “mistakingly”, deceptively.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoMaybe "Americanaly". Lots of words there seem to mean different things than in the rest of the english speaking world.
- littlestymaar 3y agoOh don't worry it's not just an American thing: social democrats get called “far left” on French TV on a regular basis too…
- averageRoyalty 3y agoI'm not up to date on French politics, but is this just a fascimile of the American playbook? In Australia at least, the parallels are pretty obvious and easily tracked back to Americanism.