Wouldn’t it bother you if someone were to put you on a list of people to keep tabs on to the government for that belief? I understand it was a different kind of communism but still.
The disappointment of finding out he did that would be comparable to like finding out my mom was a hooker or something. Just shattered my view of him honestly.
Britain didn’t have McCarthyism. Major industries were being nationalised, the welfare state was being created with the NHS, statutory sick pay, and unemployment benefits. Communism (in the true sense of the word) and socialism were generally acceptable political viewpoints.
Colonies were being given their independence. It was an optimistic time, with government by the people, for the people.
Not the neo-liberal capitalist hellscape dominating both “labour” and conservative parties we have now.
I’m not :)
I am unashamedly a communist. Just not a Leninist, or worse a Stalinist.
Wouldn’t it bother you if someone were to put you on a list of people to keep tabs on to the government for that belief? I understand it was a different kind of communism but still.
The disappointment of finding out he did that would be comparable to like finding out my mom was a hooker or something. Just shattered my view of him honestly.
In 1940s socialist Labour Britain? No.
Especially as that’s not what the list was.
Britain didn’t have McCarthyism. Major industries were being nationalised, the welfare state was being created with the NHS, statutory sick pay, and unemployment benefits. Communism (in the true sense of the word) and socialism were generally acceptable political viewpoints.
Colonies were being given their independence. It was an optimistic time, with government by the people, for the people.
Not the neo-liberal capitalist hellscape dominating both “labour” and conservative parties we have now.