Seumas Milne is a well-known British journalist who's also Associate Editor for the Guardian. He's very much an important part of Britain's establishment; despite - or perhaps because of - his extreme Marxist views.
Milne is the younger son of the former BBC Director General, Alasdair Milne. He went to the private/independent/fee-paying Winchester College and then read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford University.
After all that Milne became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. London's Evening Standard also once said he was “a member of the Socialist Workers Party”. Still, the journalist (of the Independent) Peter Popham said that although Milne wasn't, in his view, an actual member of the SWP, it was still the case that "there is no mistaking that Seumas is on the far left of the Labour Party, of which he has been a member for 20 years". In other words, having finally realised – after a couple of decades - the overall ineffectualness and un-productiveness of British Trotskyist and Communist parties, Milne chose to support a party which has often had state power and which may well do so again in 2015: the British Labour Party (which is now led by Ed Miliband, son of the Marxist academic, Ralph Miliband).
Milne is also Britain's best know apologist for Stalin and the Soviet regime. In fact he has given the lowest figures of deaths under that regime I've ever heard from anyone – even from Communists and Trotskyists. Consequently he often waxes lyrically about the achievements of the Soviet Union seemingly thinking that this somehow excuses the large-scale persecutions, the mass liquidations, the complete lack of liberty, the anti-Semitism, the Gulag, the secret services running wild (which he doesn't like when done under our Conservative government), the forced labour, etc. Indeed on this kind of reasoning we should all also be fans of the Hitler's National Socialist regime and what it did during the 1930s. That National Socialist regime brought in many socialist measures which you'd think an International Socialist like Seumas Mine would be proud of (e.g., bringing down unemployment to nearly zero, largely curing inflation, bringing in many welfare benefits, building motorways, boosting German industry, giving maternity leave to German mothers, even bringing in animal rights legislation, etc).
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