Can Britain ever be socialist?

In recent times, there has been a major ideological shift away from socialism towards social democracy, to the point that most people would say socialism can no longer function. The world has seen such an economic transformation, with a globalised economy and trans-nation corporation and supra-national organisations, it at first would seem very difficult for the roots of socialism to grow without them being stamped out by our new world order. Is there any reason to be hopeful?

First it is important to dispel the two main arguments as to why socialism is no longer neccessary, the first being that capatalism works better then socialism which i would dispute because a starving child in africa doesnt benefit from capitalism, nor do those in Indian slums or those who are denied health care in america because they dont have health insurance. Second, that no one is exploited in Britain anymore, something i personally think is irrelivant, we live in a globalised world, it doesnt matter if people in Britain aren't exploited, because we in Britain rely on those living in southern Asia in perticular to produce the things we need and those people are not just being exploited, by the defenition of the french writer Francois Perroux who defined a slave as :

"Neither by obediance nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being a mere instrument and the reduction of man to the state of a thing"

In this sense i would suggest that in a modern world, it doesn't matter, because we rely on those that produce are goods and they, regardless of where in the world they were born, are human and therefore should have their basic needs looked after just the same.

With that taken into consideration one more thing must be taken into account, just like the tools of war cannot serve us in peace, the economy of capatalism can never be tamed and manipulated to serve a fair and equal society, the economy must be completely reshaped, however this is a task not for an over night revolution, but for generation after generation of politicians to move first to social democracy, progressive taxation and greater community action. Once this has been developed in society then we can progress further to setting up nationalised industry while promoting socialism abroad perticularly in less economically developed countries, to the point that society, over a series of generations, that we can progress to a revisionist socialist state, in which the gap between rich and poor is contracted further across not just Britain, but any impoverished states across the world, education is specalised to the different skill set of the young and inheritance is completely abolished.

Finally the state becomes ready for the final stage, in which collectively the decision is made that while some peoples jobs are of greater difficulty or of greater importance, no group can exist without the other, the doctor cannot exist without the street cleaner, the banker cannot exist without the waitress and the politician cannot exist without the builder. This is when wages can be standerdised across the board, all needs of a modern society, from the internet to food can be subsidised by the government across all socialist nations. As this happens , both the people and the government, would realise that there is no need left for either currency or nationaly borders, that we can trascend this state of a national based government system which does not fit a socalised union that not only transcends state borders but actively unifies all people, through local elected councils, serving in the interest of the people of the local area such a delivering services, along with another elected high council which is responsible to oversee issues such a defence.

And in truth, this would use the same weapon that capitalism attempted to use against socialism in the first place. Capitalism threatened workers who striked with moving their jobs oversees, therefore radicalism melted away. But all it did was imiserate people abroad, and give socialism an opening to expand across in the same way capitalism did, exporting socialism to the foundation of capitalism, knawing at its roots and leaving capitalism with no place to cheaply produce its wealth. Capitalism would be strangled, and not only would Britain be socialist, but it would have helped laid down a network of socialist powers constantly growing in number. No man is an island, and similar no socialist nation can stand alone, but unified we can see equality, freedom and peace. So in answer to the question can Britain ever be socialist, i answer firmly no, because Britain as an entity would not exist anymore.