Comrade Reagan-why Ronald Reagan is my Socialist Hero
Growing up in the seventies I was a socialist. I was a pretty moderate socialist, but a socialist nonetheless. But as I thought things through and became more aware of how the world was, I began to realise that socialists had two huge problems. The first was the USSR. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was very obviously socialist, they even had it in the name. It was also very obviously not somewhere to be admired. For a start there was the violent repression of dissent. But bad as that was, there was also the problem that it was just a bit crap.
