Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down with the Barriers. If Socialism does not mean public ownership of industry and a more efficient economic system, what does it mean? To find the answer Gaitskell & Co. turned not to Karl Marx but to the 19th century British Socialist and aesthete William Morris, whose political beliefs rested on the statement that "Fellowship is life; lack of fellowship is death...
Envy can be a powerful political force, but it is a risky one. It can sharpen a sense of personal failure without providing a remedy. Socialist theorists admit that real equality between men is unattainable ; their goal is to end those institutions and circumstances that artificially support inequality. In Britain's rich agglomerate of class barriers (some actual and some psychological), there is a payload to exploit. But the new policy might kick back in Labor's face by alienating middle-class and upper working class votes. where wage differentials are much prized...
...Socialist press was in no doubt where it stood in the matter. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The uncommitted voter will quickly see that what the pamphlet means by equality is a process of leveling down, of keeping everyone as far as possible to the lowest common denominator, in all those things in which people naturally desire to be unequal-housing, education or property...
...MacArthur Constitution" to make possible faster and more open rearmament. They came out of the election lucky to have held their own 122 seats (out of a total 250), had to watch their smaller ally, the Green Breeze Society, take a beating. The gainers were the recently united Socialist Party, which picked up twelve seats...
...Socialists played on the divisions and infirmities in the regime of eccentric Premier Ichiro Hatoyama. They also made hay with increasing Japanese sentiment against rearmament. To have a bigger force than today's token army, argued Socialist Secretary Inejiro Asanuma, would require U.S. aid and "U.S. control of Japanese affairs," and would "attract the hostility of Japan's neighbors." The U.S. did not help at all by letting it be known that it was greatly increasing its military aid to Japan, possibly by as much as 13 times, or by releasing a report on its land-requisitioning...