Thursday, July 13, 2006
JULY 11 2006 - PAUL FOOT (1937 - 2004)
"AS LONG AGO AS 1938, PROFESSOR TAWNEY ARGUED THAT THERE WAS AN ESSENTIAL CONTRADICTION BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY, AND THAT UNLESS ELECTED LABOUR GOVERNMENTS CHALLENGED CAPITALISM, AND TOOK CONTROL OF IT, CAPITALISM WOULD COUNTER-ATTACK - AND THE CHIEF CASUALTY WOULD BE DEMOCRACY."