Something interesting occurred to me the other day whilst thinking about extreme politics.

I was considering what would happen in a totally mad right wing scenario, I envisaged the ‘lower classes’ or those considered such being kind of harvested from their parents at birth and sent off to perform menial tasks for the state.

This was a chilling right wing scenario which, of course, has been flirted with in novels such as Huxley’s Brave New World and Burgess’ The Wanting Seed to name but a couple of examples.

Always one to enjoy irony I immediately realised that to an extent this is what the socialist dream consists of : vast state run industries where the ‘working classes’ are blinkered into building communities based around factories or mines or the suchlike; where the state creams off the profits into layer upon layer of beaurocracy .

Generally when you flip a coin you see the other side ain’t too much different than the first.