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I never said they should not have tried but according to your statement kicking out party members is a easy thing to do. In the case of the German left party, at the time the Sahra Wagenknecht was still a member of the party, it was even less simple as a significant portion (and that does not have to be the majority) of the members of the party supported her. In the end this is how parties work. They are not an entity with a streamlined set of values but rather consist of groups of people with „similar“ views. At some point those groups diverge to much and form new parties. So in this case there is no well-defined „they“ when you refer to the party its internal conflicts.

You can‘t simply throw out people in parties in Germany. There are examples where parties tried to get rid of politicians that did not fit the partie‘s views without success.

To me it is like spam. I came here to get away from reddit not to use it as a proxy for reddit.

I don‘t get why posts on lemmy about what got posted on reddit are needed.

Left and right started as arbitrary concept based on where political parties sit in a parliament and they totally depend on the circumstances of the political system. In European history at the time democracies came into existence you could have separated idiological streams into e.g. republicans (as in people who aim for a republic) and monarchists. Also the more political parties with different topics there are the more difficult it gets to assign them to either left or right. As another commenter stated… dividing a political system into left and right helps to define a common „enemy“ which moves away the political discourse from other topics that matter.

Mlem for iOS let‘s you filter for keywords