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French Communists to drop Marx in favor of Trotsky
Deck chairs/Titanic? New boss/old boss? Franceâs Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) has announced it is moving away from old Soviet-style rhetoric, as a new opinion poll shows the extreme-left making significant ground on the mainstream political scene. At its 15th party congress on Saturday, delegates of the Trotskyist party voted overwhelmingly to drop the Marxist tenet of the dictatorship of the proletariat, a move described as a "pleasant surprise" by one LCR member. The "Stalinist reference had become too heavy a load," the delegate said. The party also voted in favour of an alliance with the fellow Trotskyist Workers Struggle party (LO). LO leader Arlette Laguiller won 5.8 percent of the vote in this yearâs oresidential election, won by Jacques Chirac. According to a poll published in Sundayâs Journal du Dimanche newspaper, the two parties combined could do even better at the ballot box. Nine percent of respondents said they had voted for the extreme left before and would do so again while a further 22 percent said they would consider voting for them for the first time. Posted by: Seafarious 2003-11-04 |
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