Through extensive research, covering issues as diverse as the distribution of wealth, the significance of speech patterns and the politics of egalitarianism, the author pursues an illusive answer to the fundamental question - how can oppressive inequality in Britain be wiped out once and for all?
Through extensive research, covering issues as diverse as the distribution of wealth, the significance of speech patterns and the politics of egalitar...
There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a straight line. A line that is always developing in a positive direction towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger. There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve...
There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses ...