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2007-01-22 10:01:27 · 6 answers · asked by dc 3 in Arts & Humanities History

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The Left Party.PDS (In German: Die Linkspartei.PDS), formerly Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus, PDS) is a socialist political party in Germany. It is the legal successor to the Socialist Unity Party (SED), which ruled East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) until 1990. Between 1990 and 2005 the PDS had been seen as the leftwing "party of the East", and whilst achieving minimal support in western Germany regularly won 15 to 25 percent of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition governments (with the SPD) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. In 2005 the PDS, renamed the Left Party, entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice (WASG) and won 8.7% of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections (more than double the PDS' 4% share in the 2002 election).

On June 16, 2007, the Left Party.PDS will merge with WASG to form a unified party which will simply be called "The Left." (Die Linke. with a period at the end of the name).

Internationally, the Left Party.PDS is a co-founder of the European Left alliance of parties and is the largest party in the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament.

2007-01-22 17:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No.
There are some socialist parties like in most countries but there is no communism anymore since 1989 when the wall of berlin feel off.

2007-01-22 18:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by luisa 3 · 0 0

there are. in East Germany there are still Sects of Communist that won't let go of the idea of a communist utopia
there are communist in every country. the U.S. has a communist party.

2007-01-22 19:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by Kev C 4 · 0 0

Yes there are. There are many from East Germany that still hold to communist ideals becasue that is all they knew.

2007-01-22 18:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0 0

Yes...the Skinheads.

2007-01-23 00:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Probably but you meet them everyday and might not know it.

2007-01-22 18:08:52 · answer #6 · answered by Jim C 6 · 0 0

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