Neil Kinnock: Believer

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“I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the [1983] election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge.”

Neil Kinnock

Tribune, 15 June, 1983.

“We believe there should be reforms in the EEC which would benefit all the members. If these were not achieved, our policy is to preserve the ultimate option of withdrawing Britain. That option would not, this time, need a referendum, as it did before.”

Neil Kinnock

Source: On Labour policy regarding the EEC (8 January 1986)

“[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.”

Neil Kinnock

Marxism Today, June 1983.

“When I started to encounter Marxism at 16, the elementary truths of the surplus value theory and more than anything else, the logical argument that he produced that labour was the source of all wealth, gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.”

Neil Kinnock

Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science <br class="br">Source: Interview with Sam Aaronovitch for Marxism Today (June 1983) http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/83_06_06.pdf

“[Labour has] always believed that the community as a whole should have a greater control over these “commanding heights of the economy.””

Neil Kinnock

Source: ‘Introduction’, in Why Vote Labour? (1979), p. 3, quoted in Tudor Jones, ‘Neil Kinnock's socialist journey’, Contemporary Record, Volume 8, Issue 3 (1994), p. 569