[MadIvan]

I think, mo mhile gra, the far left is dead in terms of out and out communism and socialism. No one is talking about nationalising the car industry anymore, for example.

Instead what the left is trying to achieve is a more modest goal - regulating us to death. Not communism, but bureaucratism. Both of us, being in the EU, see it every day in terms of being told what curvature our bananas can be, for example. And more seriously, in agricultural, work and safety regulations and so on.

It is a step backward so far as the out and out leftists are concerned. Like Jacques, they wouldn't be happy until they put up the gulag again.

Love, Ivan

[Happygal]

Well perhaps we as conservatives should be lamenting in part the death of the rampant left. It made it MUCH easier to identify thine enemy. (Of course for me as an Irish woman, Britain will always be the enemy...but I'm mellowing since I went over the 30 mark! *LOL*) *ROFL*

[hrhdave]

Your correspondent of former days, Trentino, has just published a six-part essay on the demise of the Left.
http://www.atrentino.com/ConningSEPT.html