The real face of socialism

Labour might have abandoned socialism around the same time that Conservatives abandoned the poll tax, but it’s still alive and kicking in some parts of the world.

Venezualan president Hugo Chavez, that well-known friend of Ken Livingstone, has had a brilliant idea to boost his country’s flagging economy – not to mention its place at the table of rightful nations. He’s going to shut down golf courses, one by one, because golf isn’t a people’s sport. Marx would be baffled.

Tony Blair might have been the cute and cuddly face of social democracy, if not socialism, but here is a reminder if any were needed of the real agenda behind this pernicious, envy-fuelled and discriminatory political ideology.

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