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To what extent does New Labour continue to embrace the beliefs and values of traditional democratic socialists?
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To what extent does New Labour continue to embrace the beliefs and values of traditional democratic socialists? Traditional democratic socialism is characterised by a belief in equality, fraternity and liberty. In practice this means socialist governments attempt to create a classless societies through the means of collective ownership and redistribution of wealth. They strongly believe that all authority should originate from the workforce, the heart of socialism being that people should work collectively to achieve a common goal. Democratic socialists in the Labour Party would introduce a socialist regime, but limit it within the legal democratic system. They are committed to nationalisation of industry and also place great emphasis on community. Some people believe that the Labour Party's dominant ideology has never been truly socialist, and is more a watered down version of social democracy that some label "labourism". The Labour Party "emerged from the bowels of the trade union movement"1 and its...
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