Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Can't tell my left from my right

Last week the Communist Party demonstrated outside the Bank of England to protest about the nationalisation of banks.


Extract from the Communist Manifesto 1848:

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.
Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable ...

5 Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state


“Socialise credit & the rest is comparatively easy” – Ernest Bevin 1931


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