Ed Miliband reburies socialism in Labour
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http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/05/miliband-reburies-socialism-google
The Labour leader opened his address by showing four pictures, of Ralph Miliband, Willy Wonka, Margaret Hodge and Google, and, in the manner of Have I Got News For You, asking the audience to guess the odd one out. The answer, he continued, was his dad "because he’s the only one who thought that the route to a fair society was not through capitalism but through socialism based on public ownership."
Here's what we said at the time about his dad:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1960s/1969/no-780-august-1969/book-review-state-capitalist-societyhttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1970s/1977/no-871-march-1977/open-letter-professor-milibandActually some of his criticisms of the "far left" mentioned in the second article are not all that wide of the mark and still apply today.
Did he reply?I have fond memories of The State in Capitalist Society – it was a recommended read for A level Sociology students back in the 80s (that is it was recommended by my A level lecturer who was at the time an SPGB member …)
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