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<blockquote data-quote="hislegacy" data-source="post: 76931146" data-attributes="member: 169010"><p><a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/socialism-on-the-rise-is-there-anything-we-can-do-about-it/" target="_blank">Socialism on the Rise: Is There Anything We Can Do about It?</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Murray himself is quite familiar with what it means to live under a socialist system, growing up under “late-stage democratic socialism” in the United Kingdom. After the Labour Party embarked on large-scale nationalization, including nationalizing manufacturing and utilities, the vast majority of the workforce ended up working for nationalized entities. This led to very strong labor unions that frequently exercised their power through strikes. Murray remembers doing homework by candlelight because electrical workers were on strike, and not being able to get to school because public transportation workers on strike. While many people don’t think of Britain in the 1970s as a “socialist” country per se, socialism does just not mean the gulag or a utopia, Sandefur said—“it’s much more like an endless series of staff meetings,” where people must jump through hoops to get anything from government.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hislegacy, post: 76931146, member: 169010"] [URL="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/socialism-on-the-rise-is-there-anything-we-can-do-about-it/"]Socialism on the Rise: Is There Anything We Can Do about It?[/URL] [INDENT]Murray himself is quite familiar with what it means to live under a socialist system, growing up under “late-stage democratic socialism” in the United Kingdom. After the Labour Party embarked on large-scale nationalization, including nationalizing manufacturing and utilities, the vast majority of the workforce ended up working for nationalized entities. This led to very strong labor unions that frequently exercised their power through strikes. Murray remembers doing homework by candlelight because electrical workers were on strike, and not being able to get to school because public transportation workers on strike. While many people don’t think of Britain in the 1970s as a “socialist” country per se, socialism does just not mean the gulag or a utopia, Sandefur said—“it’s much more like an endless series of staff meetings,” where people must jump through hoops to get anything from government.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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