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Can someone explain please why Corbyn is too far left?

4 replies

malificent7 · 12/12/2019 23:23

Genuine question.
I thought wanting decent access to housing, education, healthcare, transport and a smaller gap between rich and poor etc was just normal?

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MagnificentDelurker · 12/12/2019 23:24

Not far left just decent

whiteroseredrose · 12/12/2019 23:28

The economic side re strengthening the unions, renationalisation etc. A lot more Big Government control.

thepeopleversuswork · 12/12/2019 23:30

Far left is a value judgment. I am a Labour voter and voted for them today - just. The reasons I felt uncomfortable about doing so were a) what I perceive to be an authoritarian attitude on the part of momentum, seeking to force out any dissent b) antisemitism and c) genuine concern about economic competence.

I care passionately about social justice, poverty etc. But Corbyn was never going to be the man to get us past this.

nestisflown · 12/12/2019 23:33

He's not. He's just socialist. And people are selfish and/or stupid so confuse his views with communism. Saw a simplistic but great summary of the difference between capitalism, socialism and communism.

Capitalists: anyone can be rich, but inequality is inevitable.

Communists: no one can be rich, everyone should be equal

Socialists: anyone can be rich but no one should be poor.

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