Political terms have a surprisingly long lifespan. For decades, we\u2019ve been talking about the left and the right, about conservative and progressive, about liberal, social, or ecological. The words have remained largely the same. But does that also apply to the political positions they represent?<\/p>\n
It was precisely this question that served as the starting point for this comparison. I am less interested in how political parties describe their own history today or how political developments are interpreted in hindsight. A simpler method strikes me as much more interesting: Take the campaign platforms from different decades and lay them side by side.<\/p>\n