Socialists and Socialism - there is a difference, and it is scary
Socialism in not a dirty work, dirty word... Don't you believe what you've seen or you've heard.... The present writer was born in 1956, in a small town on the east coast of Australia, south of Sydney. For the first thirty years of his life, if not longer, he was politically naive. He was interested in music, going to the beach, cars, sci-fi, nature around him, and early Australian colonial history, with an emphasis on his hometown of Bulli in northern Illawarra and a bit of family history thrown in to spur on the latter. He came of age during the Gough Whitlam years in the early to mid 1970s. In hindsight, the Whitlam government was a kind of socialist utopia in Australia, mixed in with traditional Western democratic principles based upon capitalism. Whitlam introduced free university education, and Medicare, which was a universal health care system. They had a clear socialist agenda, and they were obviously of the Left. Their actions arose from the ashes of conserva...
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