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Article: More and less: grappling with a doctrine that was meant to be a panacea but was often considerably less
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1996
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The word "socialism" should be "humanely phased out" by Tony
Blair, according to the Labour frontbencher Kim Howells. What does
it mean?
Socialism is defined by Brewer's Politics as: "Common provision
for those with less by those with more, with common ownership of
the economy (or elements of it) and an ultimate goal of equality."
The Encyclopedia Britannica says the word was first used about
1830 to describe doctrines developed by Fourier and Owen, who
proposed that a society living together should share all the wealth
produced.
Socialism was first advocated in a coherent form by Louis Blanc
at much the same time as Marx and Engels were developing Communism.
In The Organisation of Work ...