Cours D'anglais

1st: freedom and property > contrary notions

2nd paragraph > presents the conservative party doctrine: new vision of the party linked to freedom and property > the extension of property ownership. She glorifies the transfer of the public property into personal property. She wants to push the notion of the welfare state > denationalization.

3st paragraph > the climate in Britain has changed dramatically. Open criticism of welfare state. Tries to unite all the notions (property, freedom).

Conclusion: position of T: she’s defending the politics of the conservative party at the moment (beginning of the 80’s), explaining her attitude to freedom and property, criticizing the welfare state and proposing a new political program to the British society based on de-nationalization = the basis of Thatcherism or the new conservative party.

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“Freedom and Property” or Freedom and Property

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In a few lines, this document encapsulates the qualities, which made mister T success as a leader of the conservative party from 1975 and as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1990. This is a long term vision and a strong which to get the message across.

1st point : the vision

The vision is too fold. On the one hand, there is a clear reference too the 70’s and 80’s century philosophers who insisted that the protection of the person and the security of their property was the first prerequisite of the civilize state.

John Locke (1612-1704) Too Treatises of government: On property (1690)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): On Liberty (1859)

On the other hand, the diffusion of the property is an advance over periods when property was a monopoly (welfare state).

This text is meant to convince all those who are influenced by the labor party’s arguments. It tries to get the Conservative Party away from their image of landlords and big business. By insisting that even working plans. A sort of industrial democracy opposite to the social one. This sort of common sense beyond class becomes clarification of Thatcherism.

In the context, Mrs. T represents a very clear example of class mobility.

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