Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

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 prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Dormer) wrote:

> In article <ddfr-8B06C3.00280603052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Friedman) wrote:
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> > There were some Nazi supporters outside of Germany, but I don't 
> > think they were ever anything close to comparable in number or 
> > importance.
> 
> Note that the BNP, considered to be a Nazi-like party, has won a number
> of seats in the local elections in the UK this week, and even have a
> seat on the London Assembly.  I don't believe any communist party
> candidates won.

Checking Wikipedia, they seem to get under 1% of the vote. They appear 
to be nationalists and anti-immigration--but it wasn't opposition to 
immigration that defined the Nazi program.

To put it differently, if you classify them as "Nazi-like," you should 
probably classify the Labour party as of, say, 1930-1950 as 
"communist-like." Note also that the Labour Party still seems to regard 
the red flag as a positive symbol. The BNP does not appear to be using 
the swastika as its symbol.

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