Origin
The party was founded in 1905 as a split from the liberal Venstre Reform Party, the primary cause of the split was disagreements about defence policy - the social liberals were antimilitarist. The literal translation radical left is nowadays somewhat misleading, as the party is traditionally described as being in the centre of the left-right political scale. The use of the word for "left" in the name of the former mother party Venstre and the Norwegian party Venstre is meant to refer to liberalism and not left-wing politics. Venstre originally was to the left of the conservative and aristocratic right.
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