The contradiction--and it is a humungous one--is between Thatcher's statement that "society does not exist" and her vicious upholding of laws condemning victimless crimes (crimes incapable of giving rise to a tort action in civil law) such as incest, pornography, drug use, prostitution, blasphemy, and so on as "crimes against society." Such laws are all expressions of the totalitarian view of "society" (identified with the political institutions of the ruling class) as a super-individual endowed with absolute sovereign power over its "members." Thatcher was disingenuously portraying that notion of "society" as being held by the "Left" whereas in practice she was among its most eager proponents.
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Great point!
j.