Well from one thing I read he was a member of the social democrat party here in the states at one time too.

And speaking from an academic perspective...generally speaking: all governments have a natural tendency to move towards the right over time so as to solidify their control over the populace and then experience eaither revolution or reform to different degrees depending upon various circumstances where in some of that power is temporaraly relinquished or redacted or the illusion of it redirected..