A blog post intended primarily for friends in the UK & the US who identify with Democratic Socialism. Jeremy Corbyn, a Democratic Socialist, an animal rights supporter & a vegetarian, is under attack in the UK by right-wingers posing as socialists. Bernie Sanders has brought Democratic Socialism to the fore in the US. …… Here is Henry S. Salt, reflecting in 1923 on the anti-socialism prevalent at Eton College and King’s…
“Our presence on this Earth is like being shipwrecked and sailing together in a lifeboat. You can either sell what food there is to the rich so they survive and then generate fights over it, or you can share it out. It isn’t just a moral decision but a practical one. There is no shortage of food in the world simply a shortage of money with which to buy it.”…