How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep…

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Aneurin Bevan

In Place of Fear · 1952

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Conservatism False consciousness

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1952

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Aneurin Bevan

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Bevan, Aneurin. In Place of Fear. William Heinemann, 1952, ch. 1.

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