When I was a young man, working in menial jobs, I used to call myself a socialist. I had an idealistic view of what the term meant, at least in theory. But in practice I was far from certain. Did it include the hopeless mismanagement, chronic waste and endemic laziness that characterised the socialist local authority in which I had grown up? Was it about the strike-plagued nationalised industries that seemed to symbolise British decline? Or the closed shop that underpinned the power of labour organisation? Did it have anything to do with communism and the Soviet Union?
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Från tidningen: Artikeln är publicerad i nummer 3, 2008.
