Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>
> I agree Dorkin's basic point, though it seems to
> me as a non-expert to be less true with each
> passing year. So Ken's comrades in Italy were
> not wrong so much as premature.
>
> mbs
>
> Having studied political science in Italy and worked with the
> extra-parliamentary left there and I can unequivicably state that
> whoever said that was way off base. The PC was way to the left of the
> dems (although some were distressingly Stalinist as well) and even the
> DC (Christian Dems) were often to the left of the US Dems on social and
> economic policy (ex various position minister Ciriaco DeMita, for
> example or even ex-DC Romano Prodi current EC Pres. who is certainly
> left of say the DLC in the states)
>
> Ciao
>
> "onesaid, "That one is for
> > our Communist Party, which is like your Democratic Party, and that one is
> for
> > our Christian Party, which is like your Republican Party."
> >
> > Ken Lawrence