According to Boris Johnson who is not a known expert on the history of the Bolshevik Party or Communism, Labour’s plans for Broadband amount to Broadband Communism.
If Johnson did know what he was talking about he might have mentioned the statement by Lenin made on November 1 1920 that ‘Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country’.
A link to the whole speech is here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/nov/21.htm
Lenin’s point of course was that if the Russian economy was to work it needed to have electricity across the whole, very large, country.
Labour almost one hundred years on are highlighting the importance of a decent broadband service for the British economy not as Johnson seems to think as a workers state (unfortunately in my view) but as a capitalist economy that can thrive and provide jobs and services that people need.
Not particularly exciting or romantic but quite important
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