Tony Benn Quotes
The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.
Benn, Tony. The Benn Diaries. Hutchinson, 1995.
There is a school of thought that since Jesus Christ preached care for the poor and have-nots that he was a socialist. Others believe that this is simply a commonality between some of the teachings of Christ and some aspects of socialism. The irony is that Chavez’s brand of socialism and polarization of society was in very large part contrary to Christ’s teachings, though there have been few governments that had ever met Christ’s standards of morality including and especially Christian, church-dominated government’s and theocracies.
Liberal Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren is:
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British politician, writer and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.
