Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.
Tony JudtAbove all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
Tony Judtthe welfare states of western Europe were not politically divisive. They were socially re-distributive in general intent (some more than others) but not at all revolutionary—they did not ‘soak the rich’. On the contrary: although the greatest immediate advantage was felt by the poor, the real long-term beneficiaries were the professional and commercial middle class. In many cases they had not previously been eligible for work-related health, unemployment or retirement benefits and had been obliged, before the war, to purchase such services and benefits from the private sector. Now they had full access to them, either free or at low cost. Taken with the state provision of free or subsidized secondary and higher education for their children, this left the salaried professional and white-collar classes with both a better quality of life and more disposable income. Far from dividing the social classes against each other, the European welfare state bound them closer together than ever before, with a common interest in its preservation and defense.
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The uncharming qualities of capitalism are its middle ground.
Tony JudtLove, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
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