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It doesn't seem that complicated to be honest with you. That is how they self identify but none of their policies seem particularly left wing. At least not from
by catheter 3mo ago
It doesn't seem that complicated to be honest with you.
That is how they self identify but none of their policies seem particularly left wing.
At least not from that Wikipedia page.
Extremely left wing dental care is the best I will give them.
- flohofwoe 3mo ago> Extremely left wing dental care is the best I will give them. Free dental care is considered "extemely left wing" now? That's just bizarre tbh. If a country would decide to use tax money to provide health care services for free to everybody that's not much different than using tax money to maintain an infrastructure network that's free to use (like roads), or free police and firefighting services - and I think none of those examples are considered particularly 'left-wing'.
- catheter 3mo agoI was being facetious. Unfortunately enlightened horseshoe centrists didn't want to hear.
- microgpt 3mo agoThey're all left-wing
- bluescrn 3mo ago> Free dental care is considered "extemely left wing" now? That's just bizarre tbh. No more bizarre than the idea of free speech being ceded to the right. Apparently even air conditioning is now a left vs right culture war issue...
- graemep 3mo agoWhat about more social housing, reductions in working hours, and opposition to privatisation? Sounds left wing to me. They have been called Marxist-Lenninist by more mainstream politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party#2021_bus_rapid_transit_petition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party#2021_bus_rap...
- dodslaser 3mo agoMaybe we could meet in the middle and call them a nationalist socialist workers party.
- hagbard_c 3mo agoYou could, just as long as you keep it at that. The term actually does describe a valid political ideology: socialism combined with nationalism instead of the more common socialism combined with globalism, i.e. internationalist socialism ('workers of the world, unite' etc.). The association with Nazism makes it close to impossible to use the term in a 'neutral' way but in itself it just describes a nationalist movement which espouses socialist ideas.
- dodslaser 3mo agoYeah, and their leader just happens to be a man disgruntled with the inefficiency and bureaucracy of democracy, mostly famous for his intense emotional political speeches, who blames most if not all of society's problems on his political opponents and/or ethnic minorities.
- hagbard_c 3mo agoYou're talking about the leader of the NSDAP while I was talking about a political ideology which aims to implement socialism at a national scale. These are not the same things and the concept I describe does not have 'a leader' just like e.g. market capitalism does not have 'a leader'.