The Ministry of Nostalgia by Owen Hatherley

Author:Owen Hatherley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)

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I am not a Communist, I am a Social Democrat. I believe that it is possible for a modern intelligent community to organise its economic life rationally, with decent orders of priority, and it is not necessary to resort to a dictatorship in order to do it. I believe that it is possible. That is why I am a Socialist. If I did not believe that, I would be a Communist. I would not be a capitalist! I believe that this country of ours and this movement of ours, despite our setbacks, nevertheless is being looked upon by the rest of the world as the custodian of democratic representative government. But, comrades, if we are going to be a custodian, we must at the same time realise what the job is. The job is that we must try and organise our economic life intelligently and rationally in accordance with some order of priorities and a representative government … In modern complex society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Therefore I am a Socialist.

Aneurin Bevan, speech to the Labour Party Conference, 19591

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