From Perry de Haviland at Samizdata:
It is astonishing that in 2017, anyone can still openly call themselves a socialist in polite society and be treated with more respect than if they called themselves a fascist.....
It is astonishing that in 2017, anyone can still openly call themselves a socialist in polite society and be treated with more respect than if they called themselves a fascist.....
2 comments:
This is abject nonsense.
For example, the French Socialists are a peaceful, responsible, mainstream party of the European centre-left. You may not like them or agree with them, but it's a ridiculous slur to pretend they are morally equivalent to fascists.
If you substituted "communist" for "socialist" you might be on firmer ground, but as it happens very few politicians describe themselves as communist nowadays.
Iain,
Why bother to label yourself a 'communist', with all that entails, when there's a comfortable home for you in the modern Labour Party?
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