1. They sided against the USSR’s correct view that socdems were the moderate wing of fascism

  2. They support Ukraine during the Donbass War

  3. Elke Kahr, a notable member: a) Distances herself from the USSR and other AES countries b) Says the DotP is an “outdated idea that needs to be broken down”

In conclusion, why does the KPOe keep making so many bad takes

  • Arlaerion@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    In a thread concerning the EU elections I asked a similar thing https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4768070/4417708

    Ah yes, i know the KPÖ. They are “eurocommunists”. They associate with the “Party of the European Left” at the EU level. This puts them firmly in the camp of pro-EU social democrats. They are fully on board the anti-Russia bandwagon on the Ukraine issue.

    They have made a conscious choice to fall in line. That is the price many of these kinds of parties believe they have to pay in order to be allowed a seat at the table. They do what they think they have to do in order to be allowed to acquire political power in the bourgeois system.

    The communist party here got pressured since the death of Stalin to distance from him or the comminust politics of the USSR. Nowadays most Austrians think communism is something evil, as in every aspect of it, but mostly Stalinism. Over time and with pressure from mainstream opinion they alligned with the burguois parties in most aspects. The KPÖ are now more right leaning than the social democrats of austria 50 years ago, while those (SPÖ) decided to get even more conservative and corrupt.

    It actually looks like a textbook example of moving the overton window.