Is Equality A Dream?

I am in the course of this lecture going to refer to a few of the socialists I most admire—Morris, Tawney, Titmuss, Rita Hinden herself. I will start with William Morris. “On this then I take my stand as a socialist,” he said, “that there cannot be equality and justice in a society, if private property is allowed in it.” He and many others who came before and after him believed that private property is an institution for organized robbery of the poor by the rich, a s...