09-12-2004, 07:50 PM
"We did not flirt with socialism..." Well, I was meaning Social Democrat rather than Marxist revolutionary. The PvdA seems to have been a major force in the Tweede Kamer since the end of WWII.
Even Minnesota elected a governor, Floyd B. Olson, who at the State Convention in 1934 said,
Even Minnesota elected a governor, Floyd B. Olson, who at the State Convention in 1934 said,
Quote:We declare that capitalism has failed and that immediate steps must be taken by the people to abolish capitalism in a peaceful and lawful manner, and that a new, sane, and just society must be established, a system in which all the natural resources, machinery of production, transportation, and communications shall be owned by the government and operated democratically for the benefit of all the people, and not for the benefit of the few.He was pretty radical for the US.