Socialist thinkers: Tony Benn (1925-)

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…