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Postby DT. » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:53 pm

Bananiot wrote:My question rather refers to the people (the majority!) that follow AKEL. In the beginning of the 20th century and right through the cold war perhaps, Akel could appeal to the masses in the face of an inhuman capitalist system that produced exploitation of the weak. Nowadays, many of the members of AKEL are educated people. In the meantime, the socialist world colapsed. Yet AKEL grows in strenght. How do you explain this DT?

I can give you my thoughts on this, but I am interested in yours first. You see, I'd much rather look at causes that try to explain phenomena than merely listing phenomena.


Thats not my issue here bananiot. My issue here is the cold war mentality that AKEL still carry.
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Postby DT. » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:56 pm

BTW akel hasn't grown in size, its remained constant just like DISY has and just like DEKO and EDEK have. The differences in size of these four over the years are minsicule.

The reason there still IS a communist party in cyprus probably has something to do with the "capitalist communists" that vote for them never having lived in a real communist state.
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