How left can a German Social Dem get?

Posted by bill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 24-05-2005

How left can a German Social Dem get? Apparently very, very left. The SPD’s former chairman, Oskar Lafontaine, is leaving his party after 39 years to join up with other lefties in what I cheerfully translate as a “Lefty League” (Linksbündnis). The central party in the Lefty League is the so-called “Party of Democratic Socialism” (PDS), more accurately called the German Communists or perhaps the “inheritors of the Worker’s and Farmer’s Paradise”.

Hat tip to German-language blog Brushfires of Freedom. The posting at Brushfires is titled Besorgniserregend, or “Alarming”. Indeed.

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