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Flat White

Socialism: the inconvenient truth

10 November 2019

11:59 AM

10 November 2019

11:59 AM

For as long as socialism has been around, there have been critics of it. And rightly so. As Ronald Reagan once quipped, “A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.”

Sadly it seems far too few people actually understand it.

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