Socialist thinkers: Tony Benn (1925-)
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- Created on: 19-03-16 18:20
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Overview:
- socialist tradition described as ethical or even christian
- he believes that the principal messages of Christ were equality and brotherhood, Christ condemed the pursuit of wealth and the inequalities that existed in ancient times
- he argues that innequality is unethical and must be drastically reduced
His ideas:
- he asserted that it was monopoly capitalism that was preventing the more even distribution of wealth
- he claimed that capitalism, would never accept higher taxation as a means of redistribution of income
- public ownership of all major industries was essential to him if economic equality was…
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