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Albert Einstein was a Socialist.
He wrote this in 1949: -
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in a few hands,...The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by...

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a democratically organized political society. ... The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

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Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, ...

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for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

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Albert Einstein in 1949 described very well the UK General Election of 2019 and UK politics in 2020

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