Popular Socialism is a distinct Scandinavia

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n socialist current. Around the world there are many parties called Popular Socialist Party or likewise, which does not really imply any specific ideological direction. For example, the Popular Socialist Party

Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)

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 of Mexico

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 is a rather hardline communist party

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, whereas the Spanish

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 PSP

Popular Socialist Party (Spain)

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 was a left-social democrat

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 formation. But in the Scandinavian context the term can be said to represent a distinct ideological tendency, originating from Aksel Larsen

Aksel Larsen

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's split from the Communist Party of Denmark

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 in 1956. Larsen founded Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist People's Party) which placed itself between communism

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 and social democracy

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. In Norway

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 a similar party, SF

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, was formed through an anti-NATO/anti-European Economic Community

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-split from the social democrats. SF later became the back-bone of Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left Party). Today, both the Danish SF and the Norwegian SV identify their ideological base as 'Popular Socialism'. In Sweden

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 the term has sometimes been used in the Left, and there were at one point discussions within the rightist section of the Communist Party on forming a political project with the Danish SF as model. But that split was avoided, although the Nordic contacts and Eurocommunism

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became important influences in the Swedish party.