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October 03, 2004
Hardly socialist
Robert Tressell's book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, has a passage near the end where Barrington explains Socialism to his colleagues as they wait for the rain to stop falling so they can finish painting outside.
Tressell seemed to suggest workers voting for Socialists would bring Socialism. Eventually, the representatives would replace the current system with a new one.
The French have elected lots of Socialists. You might think France would have a Socialist system. The Socialists did nationalize a few things once upon a time. Tressell wouldn't call it a Socialist system, however. France lies only a bit to the political left of the US.
Posted by Mark at October 3, 2004 08:26 PM