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I have been arguing against, well everything, for a while, quite a while, especially human organisation that I am so dependent on. The word socialism being the most problematic for me and I'm sure it's not as I was a child of the 'Red Enemy' era and/nor that I was a 60's hippy. It's just for their to be a social system that people take as a right, things just don't add up.

So post my many arguments against socialist parties I have now discovered an article that supports my view that although a national health system is a must for a functioning society competing for resources, I have no illusions that it is not there for my benefit and I use it at my peril.

In the 19th and 20th Centuries, however, something changed.

Equality became a dominant value in human culture, almost all over the world. Why?

It was partly down to the rise of new ideologies such as humanism, liberalism and socialism.

But it was also about technological and economic change - which was connected to those new ideologies, of course.

Suddenly the elite needed large numbers of healthy, educated people to serve as soldiers in the army and as workers in the factories.

Governments didn't educate and vaccinate to be nice. They needed the masses to be useful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39706765