Just as there are Christians and Christians, there are socialists and socialists. For example, Tony Blair has been described as a socialist.

However, he could easily have joined the Tory Party, but he saw the Labour Party as a quicker route to the top.

Similarly, Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao have been described as socialists.

However, Stalin and Mao were brutal dictators who, nevertheless, presided over state-owned planned economies.

In the 1930s, Leon Trotsky in his book: 'Revolution Betrayed' predicted that Stalin's attempt to build 'socialism in one country' would lead to the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union.

Trotsky explained that a section of the Soviet elite would become capitalists.

However, Trotsky did not know that it would take another 50 years for this to take place.

Karl Marx often wrote that the ultimate aim of capitalists is to make money from money without doing the hard work of inventing something, manufacturing it, and then selling it.

The US and UK are now known as 'FIRE' economies: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.

The production of real wealth has shifted to low wage economies such as
China and India.

However, globalisation has laid the foundations for a genuine socialist world in which unemployment, war, poverty, and starvation are relegated to the dustbin of history.

In contrast to cynics like Mr Stimson, I work with others around the world to bring about such a socialist workers' Utopia.

JOHN SMITHEE
Kingsley Avenue
Wisbech