Foamer on 26 September 2010
| Kantor said: Read the sentence which followed. I was describing Soviet Communism, which is the essence of left-wing politics. Labour is not truly left-wing and never will be. |
Don't be daft- egality is the essence of left-wing politics. The very term 'left' dates from the seating arrangment of opposing parliamentary factions during the French Revolution, 60-odd years before the Communist Manifesto was even written, and over 130 years before the Soviet Revolution.
'Left-wing' encompasses a whole spectrum of beliefs and ideologies of which Communism is simply an extreme. Ed Milliband is resolutely in the centre of that spectrum.
