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The Red Party ((ノルウェー語(ブークモール):Rødt), (ノルウェー語(ニーノシュク):Raudt), ) is a Norwegian far-left〔("Rødt" ). ''Store Norske Leksikon'', 10 September 2013 〕〔("Rødts historie" ). ''TV 2''. 19 February 2009.〕 political party and the leading party to the left of the Socialist Left Party in Norway. The party was founded in March 2007 by a merger of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance. Bjørnar Moxnes is the Red Party's current leader. Red is officially committed to socialist ideals. Red, along with its predecessor party, the Red Electoral Alliance, has struggled with the label "communist", however the party maintains communism as its ultimate goal in its own official political program.〔 The label is a result of many of the party's leading members promoting communist values, either currently or previously; notable examples are Erling Folkvord and former party leader, Torstein Dahle. The party's main principles are based on replacing capitalism with a socialist society, including a strong public sector and nationalization of large businesses, while its core ideology espouses the revolutionary socialist aims for "the workers" to "take the power", and the creation of new legislatures.〔 The party however makes clear that it does not support the "armed revolution" formerly espoused by its predecessors.〔("Dropper væpnet revolusjon" ). ''Bergensavisen''. 05.02.2007.〕 Red has slowly gained popularity, both on national and local levels, since the heyday of the Red Electoral Alliance. Red has 10 county council representatives nationwide and 80 municipal representatives. In the 2013 parliamentary election, it was the largest party which failed to win a seat. == Ideology and positions == Red is a radical left-wing party like both of its predecessors, the Red Electoral Alliance and the Workers' Communist Party. It favours the welfare state and high taxation upon the wealthy as a means of tackling inequality. Since its formation, notable groups have merged with the party, the most notable example of this being the Trotskyist International Socialists. The party consists of various internal factions, including the Trotskyists, Marxist—Leninists, and democratic socialists. One of Red's important projects is protecting the Norwegian welfare state, calling for the government to spend 30-40 billion NOKs on the public sector to counter the financial crisis. Red politician Mimir Kristjansson claimed that the "right wing parties have proved their willingness to dismantle the very foundation of our welfare state". According to him, the socialist parties, along with the Norwegian Labour Party, need to be forced into a policy which strongly protects the welfare model for the weak. The party advocates that no person should earn more than 1 500 000 kroner (about 200 000 Euros) per year and wants 100% taxation for earnings over this.〔Siv Sandvik: (Rødt vil stjele rødgrønne sofavelgere ) NRK, retrieved 15 April 2013〕 The 2009 election results which was regarded as disappointing led to some turmoil within the party, with some members wanting the party to move ideologically closer to the Socialist Left Party. After being challenged on the party's position to liberal democracy in 2012, party leader Moxnes wrote in Aftenposten that "free speech, freedom of association, free elections, free media and independent courts that guarantee rule of law for individuals is fundamental for a socialistic society".〔Bjørnar Moxnes: (Et sosialistisk folkestyre ) Aftenposten, 27 August 2012〕 In its official political program, the party says that its ultimate goal is a classless society, which it describes as "what Karl Marx called communism", and that "the Red Party bases its understanding of society on Marxist theory."〔 In 2014 there was large support within the party to highlight the communist revolutions in China and in Russia as "positive", with half the committee drafting the program supporting an early draft that stated this, although it was ultimately decided not to be included in the final program.〔〔("Mao-strid i Rødt" ). ''Bergens Tidende''. 24 April 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red Party (Norway)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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