'No comeback if dictator reigns'
Would you want a form of democratic socialism with a latter-day Oliver Cromwell?
MR Cubley (Sentinel, January 8) leaves me puzzled.
He demands a return to democratic socialism through a latter-day Oliver Cromwell who (against his better Christian judgment) effectively became a dictator.
Mr Cubley warns against dictatorship, but how would he avoid it?
He cites Oswald Mosley as the kind of infamous example he does not want.
But before Mosley founded the British Union of Fascists, he was a Labour MP
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was led by Joseph Stalin.
The National Socialist Party was led by Adolf Hitler.
Once a dictator takes power there is no longer any democratic redress.
The Diggers and Levellers (the socialists of the Parliamentary Army) came to lose out through Cromwell.
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'No comeback if dictator reigns'