Instead, one had the custom of believing that as long as leftists were preoccupied with writing, at least they weren't making revolution.
"It is just being drowned out by 'the whole damn thing is corrupt.' " Long-moribund leftist parties have sprung back to life with calls for expanding public employment, increasing the minimum wage, and perhaps even renationalizing privatized industries.
President Zeman appointed a long-time leftist ally Jiri Rusnok as Mr Necas's successor and swore in a technocratic "government of experts" on 10 July.
However, critics fear that democracy could be undermined by the appointment of Mr Rusnok, a long-time leftist ally of the president.
"A long-time leftist was holding up a sign that said 'flee while you can'.
Long-time leftist activists such as Risa Hontiveros have, upon third attempt, made it to the quasi-aristocratic Philippine senate.
However, long before leftists began referring to the unemployed as a reserve army, that redolent metaphor was regularly wielded by anxious or angry nineteenth century journalists, government officials, town fathers, governors, churchmen, and other concerned citizens.
"A long-time leftist was holding up a sign that said 'flee while you can.' In conversations I've had with hardcore activists, everyone has said they are preparing an escape plan.
Supporters of Golden Dawn, who see themselves as underdogs and nationalists, have long chafed at leftist domination of the public debate and the leftist sense of victimization.
She was a leftist long before arriving at Fresno State College as a psychology graduate student.
