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The Road to Wigan Pier with Angela Nagle

Outsider Theory

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Are Socialists a Good Idea?

In many cases, i've started thinking a lot recently is like on this whold question. Because if you look at the behaviour and the character and the bad character of socialists, then you can extrapolate from that to say socialism is wrong. But in reality, the actually existing socialists are like this, and so you're going to be putting them in power. There's no wer round that a. re is wrong, or that it's just irrelevant, or whatever. So really you could say there's something else at work, that abstract idiologies basically are irrelevant too. Like it's the people who bend the ideas to their will, and to their spirit, you know. And

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