Moreover, the ideological extremes that excited and polarized the continent back then are hardly in vogue today. Discredited by the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe, communism is effectively moribund, and its core constituencies – where communist parties manage to hang on – are aging and incapable of reproducing themselves.
此外，当时那种挑拨并分化欧洲大陆的意识形态困境现在已经不流行了。随着东欧的苏维埃阵营和苏联集团土崩瓦解，共产主义实际上已经奄奄一息了，而在它的核心选区——那些共产党设法坚持下来的地方——正在不断老化并失去了重整旗鼓的能力。