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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
IHow are they "highly left wing"?
I mean, if they are (because of their policies on welfare benefits / public services) then how the Tories or Lib Dems not?
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They all are, when viewed from any standpoint outwith the goldfish bowl of modern British politics. Fishes/water and all that. These terms are somewhat relative, since pretty much every current party in the UK would be considered heavily left wing by American standards (they all support socialised healthcare for instance, and income tax rates upwards of 40%). Britain doesnt really have any non-left parties at present, even amongst the fringes (the BNP are, despite popular misunderstanding, probably just as left wing as the Greens when you look at their actual economic
policies).
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edit : Dictatorship of the proletariat is a Leninist thing anyway
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It's from Marx