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Comment: “Socialism is a much used hat, whose original shape no one can define.” (C. E. M. Joad)

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  • Political Ideologies

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The remark comes from C. E. M. Joad's Introduction to Modern Political Theory (1924), in the chapter on socialism and collectivism: "Socialism, in short, is like a hat that has lost its shape because everybody wears it." Joad's reason was plain — socialism had so many advocates and so vast a pamphlet literature that it…

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  • Why the Hat Lost Its Shape
  • The Indian Wardrobe
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