@Greenseer @fkamiah17 @Amaru_Ca

Indeed! It wasn't so very many years ago that 25% of the French electorate voted for the official French communist party under Georges Marchais.

I remember being surprised that Marchais was so extremely conservative. When interviewed on TV and asked what he thought of the radical changes brought in by the then President Giscard d'Estaing; namely that the birth control pill would be available to all Frenchwomen whether married or not, and that 18 years olds would have the vote.

Marchais' response was "What of it? He's given whores the pill and kids the the vote" About as reactionary as it's possible to get! However, that was the French communist party - massively Russian influenced, extremely patriarchal and often more right wing than the right wing parties!