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2007-04-12 Europe

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-04-12 15:46|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Btw, orthodox marxists should do about 2-3% this time (but in the later parliament election, they should retain their caucus, due to the stranghold of the system on french politics, whereas the 18% FN has not had a single MP since 1988 IIRC), and overall, assorted commies should get 10% or so; according to polling, about 60% of the voters will vote conservative, which is in the range of the usual results.
As a matter of fact, France is a conservative country, the reds have not a long history of presiding over the country's destiny; current problem is, the whole post-WWII structure of power has been co-designed by the commies, who have entrenched themselves in the public sector and most notably the education, and in the intellectual spheres (thanks in large part to the "epuration", which was a God-given gift to them). On top of that, you've got the 60's student revolution by the maoists, and the trotkysts (who now dominate the MSM and the socialist party, since mitterrand used trostkyst entrism to gain the upper hand in his bid to socialist leadership in 1971), and the 1981 socialist victory, conforted by the "antifascist" and anti-liberal (as in "anglosaxon free market") yacoub ben shiraq.

Of course, there's a long tradition of leftist totalitarianism dating back to 1793, and an assorted (free-masonry based) tradition of anti-christianity, plus a very deeply rooted centralism.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-04-12 16:04|| 2007-04-12 16:04|| Front Page Top

#2 You know a country is serious about Marxism when there are so many Marxist candidates that the Trotskyists are listed separately from the garden-variety Communists.

Doesn't surprise me from the land that educated Pol Pot and his henchmen.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-04-12 16:07|| 2007-04-12 16:07|| Front Page Top

#3 > field of 12 presidential hopefuls contains six candidates to the left of the Socialist Royal, including three Trotskyists [and] a Communist.

Sounds like a liberal arts department at the average American university.

Posted by DMFD 2007-04-12 20:47|| 2007-04-12 20:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Trotskyites are, like, communists with perpetual painful hemmoroids...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-12 20:52|| 2007-04-12 20:52|| Front Page Top

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