Mergers and factions

Given past experience, we might as well write off the yet-to-be-born party even before it comes into being.

So, we are back to square one. In the sense that there is talk again about that eternal dream of the great factionalists of the world. I am referring, of course, to the communists, and their hopeful vision of seeing all the leftists united under a single hammer-and-sickle banner.