Mustang1 Mustang1:
Lemmy Lemmy:
The CCF was also an regional party; a farmers' issues party. It didn't really become a labour/socialist party until it became the NDP and went national, despite its leftist agenda.
Huh? Then what was the Regina Manifesto? It highlighted the CCF's desire to replace capitalism with socialism - sorry, the CCF was always a radical socialist party and it wasn't till Winnipeg Declaration (1956) that it actually became a more moderate democratic socialist party (and even then, the NDP was about 5 years away)
Of course, it was always radically socialist. But, as with most radical parties, it began as a grassroots swell, in the CCF's case, that swell was among farmers. Its first incarnation as the CCF was the marriage of a loose amalgamation (sometimes called the Ginger Group) of a number of even more radical and more regional farmers' parties (the United Farmers among others). The depression's effect on Western farmers was the seed (sorry, bad pun
). And, as you note, when politcal parties grow, they, naturally, moderate. My original point was that the NDP today seems a lot more like the old CCF; a rag-tag loose conglomeration of not-necessarily like-minded folks rather than the moderate socialist party it became under Douglas and Broadbent.
The Regina Manifesto was the first step to growing the party, as it welcomed industrial workers into this farmers' party under Marxian principles. That, of course, was a necessary step to move the party beyond its rural/regional beginnings.
CKA Uber 
![[B-o]](./images/smilies/drinkup.gif "Drink up")
CKA Uber 
