SocialWealth
  • Why Wealth is Social
  • Why Another World is Possible
  • Employment
  • Taxation
  • Looking at Marxism
  • Looking at Capitalism
  • Looking at Equality
  • Building Another World
  • The moral failure of New Labour
  • Questions
  • Calendar of Discontent
  • Social Wealth - the blog
  • Links
  • New Page
  • Why Wealth is Social
  • Why Another World is Possible
  • Employment
  • Taxation
  • Looking at Marxism
  • Looking at Capitalism
  • Looking at Equality
  • Building Another World
  • The moral failure of New Labour
  • Questions
  • Calendar of Discontent
  • Social Wealth - the blog
  • Links
  • New Page

Constructing Socialism

12/6/2018

0 Comments

 
Socialism will be an intentional human creation. It will not emerge gradually of its own accord to replace capitalism. Nor is it at all inevitable that the creation of a Socialist society will flow from the overthrow of capitalism.

In this context we must recognise that the establishment of Socialism is going to be difficult. The creation of a peaceful world without gross inequality of wealth, and those inequalities of power and status that this brings, will be a dramatic and deeply unsettling enterprise.

It will not be a straightforward exercise in transfer of property and power but requires the creation of a new type of society. It requires meticulous planning, with clear rules, but within a system that has the capacity to learn and adapt. So it cannot be totalitarian.

Not only will this process be at all times fought by the forces Socialism has defeated but it will hampered by the human instinct to cling to the familiar, and by the myriad possibilities for corruption. There will, in turn, be the temptation to dictatorship ‘for the greater good', to adopt terror-full means to achieve ends whch they cannot justify.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    August 2017
    April 2017
    August 2015
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    January 2013

    Categories

    All
    Foreign Affairs
    Religion

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Why Wealth is Social
  • Why Another World is Possible
  • Employment
  • Taxation
  • Looking at Marxism
  • Looking at Capitalism
  • Looking at Equality
  • Building Another World
  • The moral failure of New Labour
  • Questions
  • Calendar of Discontent
  • Social Wealth - the blog
  • Links
  • New Page