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Originally Posted by *Stardust*
Maybe the 10-15% of the electorate that are pure socialist should start a new party of their own. (Perhaps a Canadian Labour Party?)
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That is an enormous exaggeration. True socialists (i.e. old school, traditional, socialize the means of production socialists, i.e. Marxism/Leninism/etc)
maybe make up 1% of the electorate. They are a fringe group, and have been at least since the 50's. I have met plenty of self-described "socialists", and once they bothered explaining their positions, only one had views that actually fit the term. The term is misused more often than not. The socialist movement has all but died off in almost every western country, which isn't surprising considering how badly centrally planned socialist economies failed in Eastern Bloc countries.
The 10-15% you are thinking of would be better described as social democrats (social democracies are
very different from socialist states). Seeing as the NDP is essentially a social democratic party, they have no reason to form their own party.