{Political Circles [continued]}[8th July 1987]

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I suspect that the crucial (as it were again)* breakthrough comes with understanding that the Attraction-Distraction polarity is not the same as the Action-Revolution opposition. The understanding of this in public affairs is, I suspect, something that makes a civilised political culture possible instead of a primitive and endless power struggle of the kind seen in Latin dictatorships. (Many African dictatorships, for all their apparent harmony, appear not even to have reached that level of development: I would classify them as having no polarity at all, i.e. just Attraction in the One-Party State, which is why no other internal development is possible or occurs).

I suspect also that it is Mrs. Thatcher's instinctive and probably unconscious appreciation of the nature [of] political change that has enabled her to transform the political 'map' of Britain and force her opponents to move into new positions against their own preferences – basically by refusing to be bound by previous assumptions about the roles to be played, the actors for the roles, and the unchangeability of the system.

*[See last previous entry.]

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