"The global press have been equally delighted, but with some of the warmest praise gushing from those bastions of “enlightened capitalism” The Economist and The Financial Times , radical progressives may wish to zoom in yet closer on what has been happening on the ground in Portugal." Not different from other European "socialist" parties. When the bastions of "enlightened capitalism" praise such parties, it doesn't mean they are wrong; it means there is something really wrong with those parties which are trying to satisfy both the EU capital and their rank and file whereas in fact neglecting the latter. Europe's magician of the left?
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51