Has socialism a future? Sean Matgamna debates Roger Scruton
Sean Matgamna debates Roger Scruton. Click here to download pdf. Sean Matgamna When, recently, I debated Professor Kenneth Minogue, one important point he made against me was this: if you pin down a socialist about a particular regime in a particular country you invariably get the reply: this was not real socialism. Minogue made the point that it is very hard to know what we are arguing about. Ours is an idea which is never realised and therefore can never be criticised. On a certain level that is a reasonable point to make. So I will try to define what I mean by socialism. Obviously...