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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
And Will, your summary of Clause 4 is exactly correct... dropping Clause 4 was symbolically dropping the commitment to collective ownership. It was a symbolic statement that the Labour party was no longer a socialist party. Michel's "Iron Law of Oligarchy" I suppose.
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See! You're not the only socialist lurking around these parts.
I was dismayed when I read about that a few years back. I was too young to appreciate the Labour party in it's glory days (in 1994 I was just a decade old). I suspect that the UK's little brother, the US, had too much influence. The reach-arounds between Bush and Blair were just the most recent symptom of that.