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What, if anything, is socialist about the Labour party? Richard Wood Socialism is defined in the oxford English as a "political and economic theory of social organisation that advocates that community as a whole should own and control the means of production, distribution, and exchange." Philosophically this fitted the labour party and it's roots. When the labour party was founded in 1900 four constituent elements were instrumental in its make-up. Theses four elements were: the trade unions, the social democrat federation, the Fabians and the Independent labour party. They all needed socialism although only the Social Democrat Federation had a strong ideology. These groups produced a version of moderate evolutionary socialism with an idea of a fairer more just society. They claimed human nature was collectivist not individualist and could reach perfection. To reach this state intervention was needed to run industry- for the collective good. Labour, like all political parties, has...

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