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“Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.”

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Michael Foot was a former leader of the British Labour Party, born on July 23, 1913, and passed away on March 3, 2010. He was active in British politics for decades, known for his steadfast socialist beliefs and moderate political style. more

“Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.”

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“In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.”

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“No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.”

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“People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.”

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