Talk:Francisco Rolão Preto
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[edit] "reminiscent of Leftist ideas"
I think the problem with categorising such things as "left" or "right" is a short sighted view of the time and really since the majority of "these" movements were a "third way", it does apply. For example, attaching a "leftist" claim to something positive in this article is highly dubious;
- "He advocated especially the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier and some of the aspects of unionism which are reminiscent of Leftist ideas of social justice, such as "a minimum family wage", "paid holidays", "working class education", and a world in which workers are "guaranteed the right to happiness"."
These are positive stances, for sure, but "leftist"? When has the left actually come through in practice and "guaranteed the right to happiness". Since when is the "right" against the working class?
Of course the communists and socialists have used some of these as carrots before they killed off the upper classes and threw the working class into slave labour camps or just left them to starve. But I'm quite sure that wasn't Francisco Rolão Preto's goal by supporting the above. Unlike the communists, he was likely genuine in his support of such positive things. - Gennarous (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
