Like when a party called Labour somehow comes to represent the professional class.
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Psoe here is moderately left - liberal at best
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It signals imperviousness to red-baiting. "We already called ourselves those names, so don't bother."
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The signifiers came first. The Red Party is the spiritual successor to the old Marxist-Leninist party (AKP - although modernized today), and cannot make a break with its past or ideological foundations. But it can renew policies and message - which has worked well so far.
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Sure but Rödt and Enhedslisten in Denmark are direct descendants of the marginalised far left, it's not just a label but a legacy. I'm sure they'd also differentiate between an electoral strategy and an end goal in countries where a proletarian takeover is hardly on the horizon.
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As a theory, using impressively far-left terminology for social democrat policies at least implies that you're trying hard not to drift to the center (bad, that's where neoliberalism lives, we've already got 'left' wing parties that spent all their time there).
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I could swear you're talking about me...
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