“If you don’t give the people social reform, they will give you social revolution,” Quintin Hogg, a leading light in the Tory party, told the British parliament in 1943.
I read the above in Le Monde diplomatique in a piece by Benjamin Selwyn discussing what he calls "development by the elite for the elite." I can't say I agree whole heartedly with Selwyn but his views counter the capitalist-apologist arguments I often see published in my local paper, The London Free Press.
If interested, here's a link to: The Working Class Does The Job.
Follow the above link if you agree that the world’s workers should be paid what they are worth and countries left to develop free of condescending international meddling.
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