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Originally Posted by Nodrog
They all are, when it comes down to it.
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Then it becomes pointless to talk about the British parties in those terms then. You may as well call all the parties "pro-Gay" because they don't call for the death penalty for homosexuals. If all parties share the same trait then if there is a shift from one party to another then it becomes a bit silly to say "There's a shift away from the socialists", since - by definition - they're all socialists...
And again, you've got to remember that you're using left/right in the sense of statist vs non-statist, whereas most people don't (I would imagine).
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It's from Marx 
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The usage generally refers to Lenin's use of it, not Marx's, but in either case it's not generally as a barometer for whether someone is a parliamentary socialist or not.