05-01-2017, 03:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2017, 03:09 PM by David Horn.)
(04-25-2017, 02:10 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-25-2017, 10:29 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-24-2017, 04:19 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Both Macron and Le Pen are socialist, so there's not much to choose there. The globalist candidates won a substantial majority of the votes in the first round, so that would say Macron wins.
I think the EU wins this round.
I'm going to be a contrarian here and predict a Le Pen victory. I doubt this will be a socialist victory, unless you only wish to include French citizens without a complicating duel citizenship ... preferably ones with no ties to elsewhere. She is a purification candidate, and socialism is the least aspect of what she wants to accomplish.
That's what national socialism is all about: socialism, but only for nationals. That's what differentiated it from communist internationalism, which wanted to take over the world.
Sorry, but self assigned labels mean little. After all, the DPRK claims to be democratic in much the same way the Nazis coopted socialism, as noted by Odin above. In any case, neither of these two seems bent on establishing anything similar to a socialist system, though the French already enjoy a mixed economy that may seem like socialism to you.
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