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« on: November 09, 2013, 12:00:55 PM »
Old Left by far.
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2013, 12:23:08 PM »
Quote from: Acting Governor PJ on November 09, 2013, 12:02:33 PM
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Old Left was too populistic and New Left is too centrist.

Edit: If I had to choose, New Left

How do you oppose populism and count yourself as a member of the Left?
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2013, 12:33:36 PM »
Quote from: Acting Governor PJ on November 09, 2013, 12:24:53 PM
Quote from: Senator TNF on November 09, 2013, 12:23:08 PM
Quote from: Acting Governor PJ on November 09, 2013, 12:02:33 PM
NOTA

Old Left was too populistic and New Left is too centrist.

Edit: If I had to choose, New Left

How do you oppose populism and count yourself as a member of the Left?
I don't like social conservatism. I'd still take populism over libertarianism but neither is an appealing ideology.

Populism =/= social conservatism
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2013, 02:08:03 AM »
Quote from: Peter the Lefty on November 09, 2013, 04:32:31 PM
Quote from: Lіef on November 09, 2013, 02:43:33 PM
Quote from: Oakvale on November 09, 2013, 02:34:39 PM
The Old Left (we're talking about this in the context of the United States I guess?) was horrible, ultra-white and run by hacks in smoke-filled backrooms. To summarise the question at hand, George McGovern > Hubert Humphrey.

New Left by a mile.

It's not really fair to compare the nadir of the Old Left to the best of the New Left. And McGovern became a right-wing libertarian by the time he died anyway.
No he didn't.  Are you thinking of Gene McCarthy?

nah, McGov became a huge mouthpiece for the national "right to work" committee in his old age
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