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If
socialists
can prove to be efficient capitalists, the Gnomes of Zurich will be happy to count the profits and let them stay in power.
This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.
French
Socialists
should recall their school physics lesson about communicating vessels: when a homogeneous liquid is poured into a set of connected containers, it settles at the same level in all of them, regardless of their shape and volume.
Where
Socialists
did gain power -- in Spain and France -- they conformed to the new anti-inflationary realities.
Now that we are entering the euro’s third decade, it is worth noting that Portugal, Spain, and Greece are all governed by radical
socialists
who have abandoned the concept of fiscal responsibility, which they call “austerity policy.”
From the first popular election to the European parliament in 1979, until the latest one in 2014, the Party of European
Socialists
(PES) and the European Peoples’ Party (EPP) jointly received between one-half and two-thirds of the vote (with the rest going to centrists, the Greens, the radical left, and, increasingly, a new breed of Euroskeptic parties).
In 1936, when communists allied with
socialists
in Léon Blum’s Popular Front, and pushed through wage increases and reductions in working hours, another franc crisis erupted, and, within two years, the center right was back in power.
Something needed to be done in order to appeal to French socialists, and France needed to be given a greater say over German monetary policy.
Today ought to be a golden age for center-right parties: Communists and
Socialists
have self-destructed, free markets are spreading as inexorably as globalization, and prosperity beckons.
“It’s an earthquake,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said of the result, in which Marine Le Pen’s National Front won 25% of the vote, finishing well ahead of the governing
Socialists
and the mainstream opposition Union for a Popular Movement.
In the early years, Israel was admired by Western leftists for being a progressive state, run by Polish and Russian
socialists.
People gathered at his tomb earlier this year chanted “We won the Civil War!”, while denouncing
socialists
and foreigners, especially Muslims.
While the largest Europarties – the European People’s Party and the Party of European
Socialists
– have presented presidential candidates in the past, a Europe-wide electorate had never before been explicitly linked to the filling of this appointed position.
In the 1950’s, Japanese ministers and industrialists sometimes relied on nationalist elements of Yakuza groups to quash unions and
socialists.
Long before Trump, that party – and its cheerleaders in the right-wing media – had started to demonize its opponents and effectively told its followers that they could never opt for “European-style socialists” and other un-American abominations under any circumstances.
But when it came to national government, ideological
socialists
were swiftly shunted aside to make way for more pragmatic operators.
In Germany and France the attack on the welfare state is tardy: the German government is weak;French
socialists
promise to create more government jobs.
Take encouragement from Tony Blair’s message last year to European
socialists
— change or count your days, but also recognize that competition, privatization and globalization dramatically impact the earnings of unskilled people.
In the first few decades of its modern existence, when it was largely run by socialists, Israel was mainly supported by the world’s liberal left.
In the year that the
Socialists
are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the May 1968 demonstrations against de Gaulle, they are also trying to steal his diplomatic clothes by proclaiming themselves the defenders of the independent French foreign policy that he championed.
In the 1960’s, both
Socialists
and Centrists denounced de Gaulle’s “anti-Americanism.”
But the
Socialists
began to change their stripes in the late 1970’s, rallying around the concept of nuclear dissuasion as a guarantee of national independence and beginning to distance themselves from America.
On the left, there were Communists, whom he wanted to marginalize politically, as well as Jacobin
socialists
who wanted a national path of economic development.
Once again Berlusconi probably had no choice: by the late 1990's, his association with the disgraced
Socialists
was haunting him politically and legally.
For more than five decades, power within Europe has been divided between conservatives and
socialists
who, collectively, have failed to address the challenges of the day.
The center-right European People’s Party, which gained a narrow plurality of 221 seats in the 751-seat parliament, has claimed victory in the election; and many others, including socialists, greens, and liberals, concur that the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat, Jean-Claude Juncker, has a moral right to be selected as President of the Commission.
The candidates, particularly Martin Schulz, the leader of the Party of European Socialists, campaigned beyond their national borders.
This debate is occurring not only in France after the defeat of the
Socialists
last April.
Now others, including President Jacques Chirac of France, Edmund Stoiber in Germany, and even Sweden's
socialists
have joined the call for lower taxes.
If not, is that because 11 out of the 14 governments today are socialist/social-democrats, and jumped to help out when fellow Austrian
socialists
were poised to lose power?
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