[lbo-talk] "Doing History Backward" (Partial Draft)

[Philip Pilkington]

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> You are right of course that buying a council house did not make anybody
> middle class - but then did anyone really believe that? A lot of people were
> glad to be free of the local authority's crappy services and were pleased to
> buy their homes - and why should they not be the people best placed to work
> out how to look after themselves?
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Moral judgements? I didn't try. This was how ideology functioned, as far as
I'm concerned...

Like it or don't...  I don't care. Judge on how people "felt" if you like, I
have nothing against it... but its not my type of politics!