{"id":252630,"date":"2024-06-26T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=252630"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:30:17","slug":"tweedledum-and-tweedledee","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/tweedledum-and-tweedledee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweedledum and Tweedledee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a Daily Mail headline warned: \u2018A Tory Wipeout Risks One-Party Socialist State\u2019. Two things to be said here.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly reference to the Labour Party in any of the forms it has taken in the 100-odd years of its existence as \u2018Socialist\u2019 is a complete misnomer. Labour&#8217;s purpose has always been to manage the profit-making system called capitalism, even if sometimes in a marginally different way from the Tories. In other words Tweedledum alternates with Tweedledee.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly a \u2018Socialist State\u2019 is a contradiction in terms &#8211; socialism is by definition a world society without states, a moneyless, wageless system of voluntary cooperation and production for use not profit.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to vote for socialism write &#8220;WORLD SOCIALISM&#8221; across your ballot paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-252630","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/252630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}