[WikiEN-l] Socialism

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> There isn't anything particularly contentious about this, and I can
> see why it got chosen - it's the generally accepted linkage, socialism
> and related leftish philosophies of all stripes, light and heavy, are
> almost invariably seen as "red".
>   

Indeed.  I don't think that most of us worry about this kind of 
rule-of-thumb distinction.
> Indeed, it's one of only two political positions to *have* a
> generally, internationally, accepted "colour scheme" - the other, of
> course, being the Greens. (There's a nice summary in our article on
> the colour red, incidentally)
>
>   
Have the Tories abandoned their true blue image?  In relation to the 
Greens we often hear of blue-green and red-green arrangements.

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