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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
If you say "there is no Santa Claus," is that cynical naysaying or just what you know to be?
Socialism would be a nice dream. For it to actually work it's another story. Social democracy sure, it works and it's proven to work; but socialism with state ownership of the means of production? I don't know that you will enjoy that.
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Well I guess if
you "know" it to be, therefore socialism is Father Christmas!
In this country we've had public ownership of various means of production and then private ownership of the same things and both come with their own set of pitfalls but ultimately it's obvious which is more in the public interest. And let me just make clear that that is public ownership.
However Jeremy Corbyn's popularity is only partly about public ownership of stuff, and as much about foreign policy, austerity, income inequality, and the lack of sincerity and clear disdain for the electorate of the political class.