[Politics] Robert Owen

[aberllefenni]

250th anniversary of the birth of the great social reformer and, some would say, founder of socialism.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Is he still around?

 

[Bakero]

Can he play left back?

 

[maltaseagull]

250th anniversary of the birth of the great social reformer and, some would say, founder of socialism.

Ahhh but was his Grandfather involved in slavery?

 

[The Wizard]

Ive just spotted him outside the grand.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

No WAG photo so I am out.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

His great great grandson was the singer with The Ruts. Fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FAYXFGHfA

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Wasn't he just elected as MP for Hartlepool?

 

[jcdenton08]

Doesn't he write for The Argus nowadays?

 

[Hampster Gull]

Could do a job

 

[Eeyore]

I think John Wesley and the Methodists were really the forerunners. But that's a long history debate. The Co-operative movement, that Owen was at the heart of, came from that.

 

[RexCathedra]

Features prominently in Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, his eminently readable 1940 history of the socialist movement.