• mrbigcheese [he/him]
    hexagon
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    lol i grew up in a country ran by a socdem party i wish they were like Melenchon. not helpful imo to condense things down to everything being socdem when its clearly easy for anyone to see the difference between center-left social democratic parties and left-wing socialist parties. also idk a ton about Melenchon but La France Insoumise is a good party and much closer to GDR than the socdems.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      yeah a lot of historically socdem parties like labour or the SPD turned neolib during the 90s and never really recovered from that. when there's new socdem parties taking up their vacant place in the party spectrum, like the Linke in Germany, people tend to pretend they're Stalin incarnate when they're really slightly left of Bernie, and when there's people like corbyn who may turn the neolibs socdem again the backlash is even worse.