Dead Socialist Watch, #245
Ada Chew, trade unionist, ILPer and suffragist, who became paid organiser for the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1912. After the war, she ran a successful mail-order wholesale drapery line. Born Audley, Staffordshire, 28 January 1870, died Burnley, Lancashire, 27 December 1945.
Does Saddam Hussein now count as a Dead Socialist, given that the Ba’ath party motto is “Unity, Freedom, Socialism”?
Granted, this is Arab Socialism rather than the Marxist variety, but still…
↓ Quote | Posted 30 December, 2006, 11:19 amI don’t think I will be including SH in the DSW, no.
↓ Quote | Posted 30 December, 2006, 5:05 pmWell, Saddam was an admirer of Stalin, apparently …
↓ Quote | Posted 30 December, 2006, 8:13 pmHowever, I think that Ba’athism is socialist in much the same sense that National Socialism is. Given the absence of old Adolf et. al. from the DSW, I think Chris’s policy regarding Saddam is consistent.