John Peck (politician)
John Harold Peck (August 1922''The Times House of Commons 1964'', p.140 – 28 March 2004) was a British Communist politician, known for contesting a large number of elections before finally winning one. He served as a Nottingham City Councillor from 1987 to 1997, for the Communist Party of Great Britain and then the Green Party. Early life Born in Caistor in Lincolnshire, Peck grew up in Scunthorpe and was educated at Scunthorpe Grammar School.Death of John Peck: the people's champion
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Communist
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as radi ...
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