A recent apologist for socialism has claimed on Teletext Letters that 'socialism is not about state control' but rather about 'ownership by the people'.Drôle. (They probably truly believe this.)
Any nation whose title is the "The People's Republic of ...." is always and inevitably guaranteed to be the worst form oligarchy!
I believe it was Margaret Thatcher who once summed up Marxism as 'poison' and socialism as 'poison - just administered at a slower rate.'
Our experiences in the UK of socialism have always produced greater state control and meddlesome interference in the lives of the populace. There have NEVER been profit-making industries to subsidise our taxes. In fact, has it not always been precisely the reverse?
Socialism ALWAYS gives rise to centralised power, control, suppression of free speech (political correctness is a part of this) and in too many cases - a loss of democracy.
What is the real problem with socialism is that its adherents have an unshakeable belief in the benevolence of the philosophy in spite of more than a century of clear evidence that it does not - and in my view CANNOT - work.
