M. Stanton Evans Letters

the pressure of runaway inflation, did Crosland and Roy Jenkins suddenly announce their conviction that, at 60 per cent, public spending had reached as high a proportion of national income as was compatible with liberty. For all the cant about Labor being the intellectual’s party, nobody in the Labor movement has applied any real thought to the central questions of social democracy in the last twenty years. If I were a social democrat, I should blush to be associated with such a bunch of careerist numbskulls. The Tories have to do all their thinking for them, which is perhaps why The Future That Doesn’t Work goes off the rails. It saddles British social democracy with the blame that properly belongs to British socialism masquerading as social democracy.

The West German SPD, by contrast, was shifted by the shock of war, the influence of the occupying powers, and the brilliance of Ludwig Erhard into an overtly social-democratic approach which eventually crystallized in the Bad Godesberg Program. Ever since, the socialists have been kept to their true minority position within the party.

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the pressure of runaway inflation, did Crosland and Roy Jenkins suddenly announce their conviction that, at 60 per cent, public spending had reached as high a proportion of national income as was compatible with liberty. For all the cant about Labor being the intellectual’s party, nobody in the Labor movement has applied any real thought to the central questions of social democracy in the last twenty years. If I were a social democrat, I should blush to be associated with such a bunch of careerist numbskulls. The Tories have to do all their thinking for them, which is perhaps why The Future That Doesn’t Work goes off the rails. It saddles British social democracy with the blame that properly belongs to British socialism masquerading as social democracy.

The West German SPD, by contrast, was shifted by the shock of war, the influence of the occupying powers, and the brilliance of Ludwig Erhard into an overtly social-democratic approach which eventually crystallized in the Bad Godesberg Program. Ever since, the socialists have been kept to their true minority position within the party.