New American Socialist in Euro politics | 5 comments (5 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Welcome, but remember that in Europe we don't subscribe to "Europe: love it or leave it", the left because of the "leave it" and the right because of the "love it".

By the way, membership in a European party is quite different from voter registration in the US. It qualifies you as an activist whereas a US registered voter is just a sympathiser. A few years ago the Spanish Socialist party realized they could benefit from keeping track of sympathisers as well as members (whom we call "militants" is Spain, actually). You will also find that voter registration is pretty much automatic in Europe.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 02:04:00 PM EST

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Thanks Migeru,
It's funny you mention Spain. I am writing my dissertation on Brecht, Mayakovsky, and Lorca and how they used poetry to affect the aesthetics of theater to promulgate their ideology. So Spain is dear to my heart as well. Well, I guess I'm an activist then, so be it. I have to say that I really enjoy the absence of the "love it or leave" it mentality, it is more like "let's get something done" mentality.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 02:53:26 PM EST
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emember that in Europe we don't subscribe to "Europe: love it or leave it", the left because of the "leave it" and the right because of the "love it".

That's a great line!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 03:12:03 PM EST
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New American Socialist in Euro politics | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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