On a relatively non-political point, there's virtually no chance that Corbyn could serve three 5 year terms as PM. He's 70 now.
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Well yes, Norway nationalised their oil reserves while we sold most of ours, so it was a political choice.
In fairness I don't think Seamus Milne was ever a member of any Communist organisation.
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When has a PM ever had 3 terms?
Going by the 2017 manifesto, which is pretty far from communist, I would like to think that after 2 terms (which is more realistic) the country would have a healthier NHS, a bigger social safety net for the worst off, better public services (eg transport, education), a reduction in poverty and inequality, big business paying its fair share in tax etc etc
I think the claims of Seamus Milne as a commie are vastly overblown. I don’t know anything about Murray tbd
He's been very supportive of communism though?
It was merely a thought exercise to see where a Corbyn government would like the country to be. I mean you can perhaps see why people view him as far left given his willingness to appear thus, McDonnells tendency to quote from Mao, and the appointment of communist party members to his inner circle.
I suppose it depends how you define communism really. He certainly had a very sympathetic editorial line towards the Soviet Union 40 years ago. I doubt that his viewpoint now mind!
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That was quite old for the time.....
He's said a few times that he believes many citizens of states oppressed by the USSR miss being under their boot. Maybe this being the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution his views have changed. Maybe he thinks that the 2 million people that joined hands across the Baltics were just doing it for giggles.
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There are East German citizens who now prefer how things were before the wall came down. It's just a fact. I don't know about other countries.
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Any evidence of this claim ?......
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It was reported in teh news here in Germany. I'll try to dig out some links later. Obvs not all east germans
My experience of travelling to many such places is lots do. It doesn't make for great history where we want easy black and white answers but there is a sense of nostalgia in certain quarters. You get similar in areas in relation to the British Empire too, overall undoubtedly a bad thing but not everyone has a uniform experience.
I've no idea what he would now think though, his columns in the Guardian were always well written though.
I know in Moldova they re-elected the Communist Party there! To be fair EU membership has helped a lot for many of the states. Russia had an enormous collapse post 1990. I think a lot of that was about the stupidity of Freidmans ideas as opposed to any veneration of the Soviet Union though!
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Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an "illegitimate state." In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.
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