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ToxicAcidRed
29th January 2014, 03:39
I know this is a stupid question but is the Socialist Party of France (which holds power right now) actually socialist? On a rate from 1-10 how socialist are they?
1 Being Pure Capitalist, 10 being pure Socialist.
FSL
29th January 2014, 05:42
About 1, maybe 2.
Prometeo liberado
29th January 2014, 09:02
About as socialist as the Socialist Party USA.
Buttscratcher
29th January 2014, 10:18
As socialist as most european "socialist" parties.
GiantMonkeyMan
29th January 2014, 11:31
Much in the same way that the Labour Party in the UK has become a party of business (in a recent interview, Ed Balls claimed that the party was 'always pro-business'), the vast majority of parties throughout Europe that once could perhaps be called social democratic at best have abandoned those positions in order to fully adopt neoliberalism.
Blake's Baby
29th January 2014, 12:37
Is the light in your bathroom on or off? Please rate it on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being off and 10 being on, with 2-9 being varying degrees of onf.
Is it socialist or is it capitalist? It's capitalist.
Crabbensmasher
29th January 2014, 21:01
It's at the forefront of the revolution, comrade! They're just showing us how bad capitalism can get before they ignite their glorious struggle. And they're doing a really good job at the first part!
Ismail
2nd February 2014, 09:32
The French Socialist Party does not claim Marxism, and its predecessors retained a "Marxist" mask after 1914 purely for demagogic reasons. Like the SPD (which abandoned any remaining pretenses to Marxism in the 50s) and various other social-democratic parties, it acted as an agent of the bourgeoisie in the workers' movement and when elected to office behaved no differently from avowedly capitalist parties. It advocates in theory and practice for reforms to the capitalist system.
As Hoxha wrote (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/revisionists.htm) in 1964:
Let us dwell even briefly on the activity of the French Socialist Party and its leader Guy Mollet, who has more than once taken part in and even headed the French government, and whom the revisionists consider a left-wing element and conduct hearty talks with. When at the head of the government, the French socialists set the dogs loose on workers on strike, incited the outbreak of the dirty war in Indo-China, undertook police repressions against the people of other colonies, carried on the fighting against the Algerian people with more ferocity, approved the North Atlantic Pact [i.e. NATO] and the re-arming of Western Germany. Guy Mollet's government signed the agreements for "the European Common Market" and "Euratom", it was one of the organizers of the military aggression on Egypt, Guy Mollet's betrayal paved the way for personal rule in France [by De Gaulle] and so on and so forth. Speaking of Guy Mollet's activity even the labourite weekly "Tribune" wrote at the beginning of 1957 that "Mollet is a disgrace to France as well as to socialism".
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