I have a tendency to type ‘ign’ at the end of words instead of ‘ing’.
I’m currently looking at a report with the word ‘Assign’ in it.
I have a tremendous urge to fix my (non-existent) typo.
Until I think about the verb I would be creating.
I have a tendency to type ‘ign’ at the end of words instead of ‘ing’.
I’m currently looking at a report with the word ‘Assign’ in it.
I have a tremendous urge to fix my (non-existent) typo.
Until I think about the verb I would be creating.
Today is the 60th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe). It perhaps doesn’t impinge on the collective awareness of the US as much as VJ Day, but there is no more blessed day in European history in the last 100 years. VE Day didn’t solve everything; fighting continued in Japan until the August, and the fallout between the allies lasted until after the fall of the Berlin wall. But on that day, if only for that day, everything was good.
I know I have at least, erm, 2 educated readers, so thought I’d post a question I’ve been puzzling over. My wife asked what ‘Socialist’ means, and I quickly responded with “I don’t know”. Now that wasn’t really true – I had some understanding about ‘controlling the means of production’ on the one hand, and ‘taking care of the vulnerable’ on the other – but I didn’t know what the actual definition is. To the dictionaries!
1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.
Those two alternatives seemed to cover most of the dictionary definitions I could find. Now using a dictionary to define a political position is somewhat foolish, but it’s well suited to defining a word. Assuming, then, that the dictionary defines the word accurately, it seems clear that Britain is not a Socialist country (even under Labour, which dropped the Clause IV part of its platform calling for the nationalization of industry some years ago) , even if it sometimes has Socialist tendencies. So what is the word? Socialish? Socialesque? Bleeding-heart-liberalist?