Darryl Shannon wrote:
>
>
> Well, we allow communists to run as well. Although TWO communist
> parties seems a little much. Ah well, at least that gives Gord a
> choice....(:3=
>
What's the problem? Brazil had, for a long time,
_Partido Comunista Brasileiro_ [aka PCB] and
_Partido Comunista do Brasil_ [aka PCdoB].
> What I can't understand is why these parties run under the communist
> name. Why don't they call themselves social democrats, or even
> socialists? Even neo-nazi parties don't call themselves
> neo-nazi, they call themselves a national party or some such.
>
But the nazi party could be translated to _Nationalist and
Socialist Labour Party of Germany_... So why would neo-nazis
call themselves nazis?
> You'd think that after
> all of communisms horrible crimes against humanity they'd try to
> downplay their link to it.
>
:-))))))))))))
BTW, the PCB changed its name to some socialist TLA, but an
other communist party appeared, so we now have *three* communist
parties, plus some others with very important affinities with
the commies.
Alberto Monteiro
PS: an our elections are eletronic, so there's no recounting :-P
