It's true that the Party no longer emphasises class struggle, hatred of the rich, or opposition to private property; arguably, however, it now has a more realistic view of Marxism that it did in Mao's day.
With Syriza trailing by as much as 16 percentage points in the polls, Tsipras is proving to be no different, emphasising the seven-point drop in unemployment since 2015, a 7.5% jump in exports and a bumper year for tourism.
His father owned a tea-stall and the young Modi often helped out there - something which he loses no time emphasising.
"Every city is unique," says Di Giovanni; the No campaign website emphasises what it calls the "extraordinariness of Rome".
There is in all of this, as he emphasises, no right answer; the thing is to ask the right questions, and maybe follow a few simple rules for ways of seeing.
By equality Hattersley has never meant absolute equality, which, in common with most people, he regards as impossible; no, as he emphasised to Hennessy, his belief is that it is the duty of governments to try to offset or mitigate the inequality imposed on people by society.
Vote No Borders emphasised in its own press release that these came from "three businessmen who are Scottish, state-educated and from working-class backgrounds".
He may not go as far as to adopt the burnous the countryman's cape that Mr Marzouki affected when he first became president but he will no doubt emphasise national unity and a commitment to a moderate interpretation of Islam.
An NHS England spokesman emphasised it no longer required appointments of a fixed length: "How long to allocate to individual patient appointments is at the discretion of individual GP practices, based on patient need, and there are no national limits suggesting 10 minutes should be the norm," he said.
