Benito Mussolini. Josef Stalin. Muammar Gaddafi. Pol Pot. Adolf Hitler. You knew that all five of these men were dictators. But did you know another thing about these five dictators? All five loathed capitalism and started their political journeys in socialism.
Before you dismiss this entry as a sensationalist attack on socialism because I have named five disillusioned dictators, consider what makes a dictatorship; totalitarian or authoritarian. No pluralism or democracy. No capitalism or competition in markets. Pure governmental control.
What relevance does this have? A fair bit, TWOL would suggest. Socialism in Britain has created a social under-class. These people are disillusioned, politically inarticulate and very open to suggestion. Because of the strength of capitalism and democracy in the UK, there is virtually no chance that Britain could become a dictatorship in the near future. However, flirting with socialism is flirting with serious potential consequences.
With the recession, people want a scapegoat. People want to blame their hardship on other people. Socialism only encourages this. The short-sighted view that capitalism has failed this underclass is ridiculous. With a little help from the level of socialism of New Labour, these lazy people have failed themselves.
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