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**mr.nemo** · 06-28-2010, 07:42 PM

You are clearly just reading what you want to. Yes, it "planned to compete mostly with the Czech communist party[9] and as late as in early autumn 2008 the Workers' party program was considerably socialist" but if you continue to read, it says:

"The party has then started to emphasize nationalist dimension of its program, mostly effort to overhaul what they see as a favorable treatment of minorities, and in fact has started a radically anti-communist rhetoric, e.g. on the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia the party leader Tomáš Vandas has said: "So what is the state of the society nowadays? In one word: tragic. Communists still govern us."

This is not a left-leaning group. These Nationalistic groups are, and have been, popping up all over Europe in the last twenty years. They may not be considered "neo-Nazi", but they are pretty damn close.

*edited to add: I linked BBC too. Did you not read that? How about these, all calling them a far-right party:
EUobserver / Czech court bans far-right Workers Party
Czech court bans far-right Workers' Party - Radio Prague

And if you need any more proof, the guys at Stormfront seemed pretty irritated that the party was banned:
Czech court dissolves far-right Workers´ Party at request of govt - Stormfront *

Again, they are, by your own source, a socialist group, making them "leftist" by definition. I wouldn't exactly call the BBC an unbiased source, considering it's based out of a highly socialistic country and largely represents and extremely socialist Europe. Perhaps you deserve some credit in that it's not entirely CNN's fault in characterizing a socialist group as "far-right" as they are likely relying on rather biased sources themselves. But your basis of characterization of a group as "right-wing" solely because they are nationalist, fails to analyze other components. Typically, parties are classified by economic theory moreso than stance on social issues. This basically goes to show how the media can and do manipulate the political spectrum to bad mouth whatever ideology they disfavor.

06-28-2010, 07:42 PM	#19
mr.nemo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	You are clearly just reading what you want to. Yes, it "planned to compete mostly with the Czech communist party[9] and as late as in early autumn 2008 the Workers' party program was considerably socialist" but if you continue to read, it says: "The party has then started to emphasize nationalist dimension of its program, mostly effort to overhaul what they see as a favorable treatment of minorities, and in fact has started a radically anti-communist rhetoric, e.g. on the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia the party leader Tomáš Vandas has said: "So what is the state of the society nowadays? In one word: tragic. Communists still govern us." This is not a left-leaning group. These Nationalistic groups are, and have been, popping up all over Europe in the last twenty years. They may not be considered "neo-Nazi", but they are pretty damn close. edited to add: I linked BBC too. Did you not read that? How about these, all calling them a far-right party: EUobserver / Czech court bans far-right Workers Party Czech court bans far-right Workers' Party - Radio Prague And if you need any more proof, the guys at Stormfront seemed pretty irritated that the party was banned: Czech court dissolves far-right Workers´ Party at request of govt - Stormfront Again, they are, by your own source, a socialist group, making them "leftist" by definition. I wouldn't exactly call the BBC an unbiased source, considering it's based out of a highly socialistic country and largely represents and extremely socialist Europe. Perhaps you deserve some credit in that it's not entirely CNN's fault in characterizing a socialist group as "far-right" as they are likely relying on rather biased sources themselves. But your basis of characterization of a group as "right-wing" solely because they are nationalist, fails to analyze other components. Typically, parties are classified by economic theory moreso than stance on social issues. This basically goes to show how the media can and do manipulate the political spectrum to bad mouth whatever ideology they disfavor.
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