{"id":266612,"date":"2026-10-14T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=266612"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:27:25","slug":"misconceptions-galore","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/misconceptions-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Misconceptions galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have never been more misconceptions than there are today about what socialism is and who supposedly stands for it. To name but a few \u2013 the left-wing of the Labour Party, China, Cuba, North Korea, Corbyn\/Sultana\u2019s Your Party, the Greens led by Polanski, the small left-wing groups with \u2018socialist\u2019 in their names, Mamdami the mayor of New  York, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tasks of the Socialist Party of Great Britain is to shake these mistaken ideas from people\u2019s minds and place in front of them the vision of a moneyless, wageless society of common ownership, cooperative endeavour and free access to all goods and services which is what socialism started off as and still is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-266612","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/266612","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=266612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}