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My phrase 'glorious victory' was typed with a fair bit of tongue in cheek. As for political parties we see now, obviously they are useless - their role is to maintain the status quo. But what would you call a group of like-minded people operating in the socio-political domain except a party? Whatever you call this group (and let's not get bogged down in semantics) history shows that it's message will fall mostly on deaf ears most of the time. However when forces larger than this 'party' cause a great number of people to look for alternatives that message has to be there and has to be clearly presented. It's almost certain that this will happen during a crisis - depression and/or war - when social collapse is looming large. People will want solutions *now* and if the 'right' message is absent then it is quite likely that groups with the 'wrong' message (and there is enough of them in every country) will gain influence and power. It's happened before.
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