At that time they said the most obvious solution would be an above-politics left-nationalist figure, a "Greek Kirchner" or "Greek Morales", and that the absence of such a figure would make it impossible to form what Marxists refer to as a "workers government" - ie a radical reforming government with the participation of the far left, but limited to parliamentary means.

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The symbol of the crescent embracing the cross was the banner of the 1919 revolution against British control of Egypt, and became the badge of the nationalist Wafd party which dominated Egyptian politics until the early 1950s.

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Today's dominant strain of American leftist thought is multiculturalist, not nationalist, which means leftist identity politics is mostly a matter of trying to forge alliances among disparate and potentially antipathetic ethnic and other identity groups.

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