Margaret Thatcher — "There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. The…"
There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. They are wrong. The state provides nothing. It only distributes what others produce.
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British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right.
Closely associated with
Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.