"Now that we are engaged once more in policy-making it is essential that we should keep clear before us that one of the central principles of Socialism is the substitution of public for private ownership. There is no way round this."
— Aneurin Bevan

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomHumanistsAtheistsLabour Party (UK) politiciansDemocratic socialists
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‘The Fatuity of Coalition’, Tribune (13 June 1952), p. 2, quoted in Notes on Current Politics (1952), p. 31 and W. H. Greenleaf, The British Political Tradition, Volume Two: The Ideological Heritage (1983), p. 471