Why is there no American Left Wing Party?
February 15, 2018
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If there’s one thing you hear over and over again in the American political discourse, it’s socialism as a word to represent generic badness. And America indeed doesn’t appear to have a left-wing party in their political system. Many other countries have democratic socialist parties, but the US seems to act as a strange exception to this. So… why?
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