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Which would then invalidate all of the Tories' talk of liberty, freedom, the Left being dictatorial, and so forth.
Though I disagree with their stance on the American Civil War, I must vote for the National Conservatives in this election.
So Freedom is guaranteed, progress is assured and the glory of the Republic grows, I vote Liberal
A vote for Gladstone as PM is a vote for the future of the Republic, for the welfare of all citizens and for the growht of our economy.
A vote for Gladstone as PM is a vote for the future of the Republic, for the welfare of all citizens and for the growht of our economy.
And the left's jailing without trial of those who incurred the ire of the Labour Party didn't already invalidate the Left's talk of liberty, freedom, etc?
No, no good sir, we are neither of us angels.
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Gentlemen, we have just ended one bloody war. Are we so eager to get messed into another one? Are we sure that Washington will care to remember who helped them? After all, they are as greedy for overseas expasion as we are. Er... We are not greedy, of course. Our is a quest for civilization. Yes, that is. Civilization. 
It's shame that Liberals allowed to take the issue of women suffrage from them. And even in the politics toward American civil war I have more common with Socialists, I just can't suport their economic and domestic programme. Thus I vote for Liberals, aganist jingoism, narrowmindnes and protectionism of the NCP, and aganist the radicalism of the socialists.
(And Labour is rather bland this election. Even more than Liberals.)
(And Labour is rather bland this election. Even more than Liberals.)
Liberals! We must fight statism on both the left and the right! While I support pro-Union intervention, non-alignment is most definitely better than supporting the institution of slavery.
So how long if the Socialists get into power, before every other party is deemed an enemy of the state and banned and its members rounded up and sent to ''reeducation'' camps?
Just because they haven't talked about it doesn't mean they haven't, at the very least, thought about it. Truely, if the Socialists have the power, what is to stop them from censoring anything or anyone they consider "reactionary" (which is essentially everything outside of orthodox Marxism)? After all, nothing must get in the way of the glorious worker's revolution, am I right?
Only if they win an absolute majority. It wouldn't happen in a coalition because whoever they side with will not stand for it, a stalemate or gridlock would come into play with perhaps a very paralyzed government at worst.
Considering the Socialists' workers republic would be much more democratic than even our current system, and more decentralized, that statement is completely false.
We have a lot more to fear from a Parliamentary government banning parties from parliament than from a Workers Council with representatives elected directly by the people on a local basis. In a workers republic if the Council steps out of line the workers hold each local industry in a decentralized fashion and can prevent misuse of power, whereas a Tory government in Parliament would have absolute power stretching from Westminister to the corporate headquarters of every industry and every army barracks in the country.
Which seems more of a threat to you, the Conservative party's top down dominance of industry, or the Socialist party's proposed bottom up division of industrial power among the worker?
You can spout neat cliches all you want, but the fact of the matter is your party is declaring totalitarian intentions while the Socialist party's proposals would make such totalitarianism impossible and would instead open up and liberate society from being controlled by a single party, sect, or clique.
If you want to look at a single party that seeks to dominate all aspects of life, look at the Tory party - the War Party, whose reactionary interests weld every industrialist and banker in Britain into a single elitist clique who seeks to select which parties are admissible and which are not. Whereas the Socialist party is proposing handing power over to the masses. Tory Governments absolutely control all aspects of industry, as they are inextricably linked with the capitalist robber barons, whereas a Socialist government would give up control of industry to the individuals who work in each local industry.
The only clique of Jacobins trying to create a massive state are the National Conservative Party.
Such are the views of those brainwashed by the ideals of Marx.
Its hardly more democratic when any challenge to the ''Socialist state'' will be purged.
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