The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development … - Tony Blair

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Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Tony Blair

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

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