I wasn't really judging IDS against anything. In fact I wasn't referring to him at all. I was more making a point about the party system.
On your slavery point, slavery was a product of capitalism - and still today there is the constant search for cheap labour globally. The abolition was for no 'moral' reason, but simply out of pure eceonomic necessity (there was a general acceptance that it was 'killing off the working class'), I can't see why that should be regarded as 'good' or 'progressive'.
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