Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃
(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely
I don't like the classifications you have used - I consider myself to be primarily a RADICAL (of the left). I don't believe we can go on papering over the cracks when things start breaking!
@Paulos_the_fog hmm so you would say radical left is not the same as far-left? Why not?
I have never heard the far left making radical proposals; quite the reverse - the far left tend to be more conservative than the conservatives!
@Paulos_the_fog Maybe we don’t place the same things in far-left? I’d put communism and anarchism there, which both propose quite radical societal changes and a completely different governmental structure (even absence of one, if I understand anarchism properly). On the other hand, a socialist party would be on the left (not far) and they propose relatively minor changes (increased worker’s rights, increased distribution of wealth, increased public service) while still keeping the same kind of governmental structure. They are definitely not radical… but communists are, no?
It's all semantics!
When I first lived in France back in the 70s, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was President of the Republic. He introduced several 'radical' reforms including giving the vote to anyone over 18 and permitting unmarried women to be prescribed the birth control pill or other forms of birth control (something that was formerly banned).
Back in that era the soviet aligned French communist party used to receive 25+% of the vote in general elections so they were a force to be reckoned with.
The leader of the French communist party at the time was a guy called George Marchais who when asked what he thought of the radical reforms put in place by Giscard d'Estaing replied
"Yeah - he's given the whores the pill and the kids the vote!"
