Wednesday, 6 February 2013

{Emotional Politics}[13th April 1970]


[Redbook1:143][19700413:1005]{Emotional Politics}[13th April 1970]

Monday 13th April 1970  10.05 a.m.

            One of the basic questions for British socialism is this: Does one believe that one will earn more real wealth for the bulk of the people of the country by emphasising redistribution of incomes or by concentrating on providing incentives for everyone?  Since it is not easy to measure either possibility, the question becomes rooted -- like so many others in British politics -- in emotion and (dare I say it?) the psychological make-up of the individual who holds the view.

            In fact, nearly all our arguments are chosen because of our emotional base, and rationalised thereafter.  And absolutely all of our approaches to a question are emotionally orientated i.e. they reflect our personal psychology -- even in "lack of emotion".

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