There was poverty long before Thatcherism… Charles Dickens made a career of highlighting the plight of the people who were stricken to lifelong poverty simply because they weren’t born correctly.
The root cause is imperialism - from the Romans enslaving every population they came in contact with and sent the wealth of their misadventures to enrich the capital, to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, to the blockades against Palestine. One group of people decide that their birth is more worthy than another group’s, so they deprive them of property wealth and tell the world they deserve it.
The people that inspired Dickens became the cannon fodder in the Somme, then the ignored general strikers of the inter war years, then cannon fodder again in WW2, then they were granted thirty odd years of dignity, then Thatcher decided the Kingdom had done enough and set about reestablishing the hierarchy of property wealth, and since 2008, has evolved into restoring feudalism - a tiny land-owning contingent deriving unearned wealth by exploiting the populace who are excluded from owning land.
I suppose you do know that people have been known to enslave their own, without any imperialist intervention. The Romans didn't invent it, nor did any other imperialist power. Nor did they invent poverty. Slavery existed and was institutionalised in Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago.
It's a human tendency, unfortunately, that has to be constantly opposed.
Thatcherism just happens to be the kind of philosophy that supports and reinforces that human tendency, and itself should be opposed.
There was poverty long before Thatcherism… Charles Dickens made a career of highlighting the plight of the people who were stricken to lifelong poverty simply because they weren’t born correctly.
The root cause is imperialism - from the Romans enslaving every population they came in contact with and sent the wealth of their misadventures to enrich the capital, to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, to the blockades against Palestine. One group of people decide that their birth is more worthy than another group’s, so they deprive them of property wealth and tell the world they deserve it.
The people that inspired Dickens became the cannon fodder in the Somme, then the ignored general strikers of the inter war years, then cannon fodder again in WW2, then they were granted thirty odd years of dignity, then Thatcher decided the Kingdom had done enough and set about reestablishing the hierarchy of property wealth, and since 2008, has evolved into restoring feudalism - a tiny land-owning contingent deriving unearned wealth by exploiting the populace who are excluded from owning land.
Thatcherism was a symptom not the cause.
I suppose you do know that people have been known to enslave their own, without any imperialist intervention. The Romans didn't invent it, nor did any other imperialist power. Nor did they invent poverty. Slavery existed and was institutionalised in Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago.
It's a human tendency, unfortunately, that has to be constantly opposed.
Thatcherism just happens to be the kind of philosophy that supports and reinforces that human tendency, and itself should be opposed.