Western Civilization II / Unit 18 WC2 1724 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Left Without Marx, and the Far Right Reborn
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The idea
The mainstream left dropped Marxism: New Labour under Blair from nineteen ninety-seven, France's Socialists by the nineties; the argument became how much to deregulate. The Greens took the far-left space. Anti-immigrant parties revived after the boom with quotas and bans as their program, France's first.
In practice
The racial definition of European identity, "factually wrong", the anchor says.
Where people slip
Present-day parties are dated, not characterized.
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