As an independent socialist my only caution is the nature of the socialist parties promoting socialism. There is a history of daffy " vanguard " parties that are little more than degenerate personality cults led by some well heeled PERMANENT GREAT LEADER FOR LIFE. The members of these cults are very similar to the daffy " Clears " of the very daffy Church of Scientology ".
The self-proclaimed SOCIALIST VANGUARD is out of touch with the broad masses that they would lead. For more than a century they have been a public relations disaster for the type of democratic socialism envisioned by H.G. Wells in his " History of the World ".
And on the Left in general the spirit of Stalinism is still alive. The Left today only very weakly defends the FREE SPEECH and FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.
Also it is hard to refer to Marx's very correct labor theory of value when puffed up " socialists " are enthusiastic gamblers on global stock markets.
The self-proclaimed SOCIALIST VANGUARD is out of touch with the broad masses that they would lead. For more than a century they have been a public relations disaster for the type of democratic socialism envisioned by H.G. Wells in his " History of the World ".
And on the Left in general the spirit of Stalinism is still alive. The Left today only very weakly defends the FREE SPEECH and FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization.
Also it is hard to refer to Marx's very correct labor theory of value when puffed up " socialists " are enthusiastic gamblers on global stock markets.
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