Thought for today 29.05.20

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many.

Adam Smith, sometime referred to as the “father of economics” (and/or recognised as one of the first people to defend capitalism in writing), rather gave the game away with this statement, trashing the idea that government is neutral. Smith is the establishment, rather than the iconoclast: can we substitute his idea of Government for the “government for the many” recently advocated by Jeremy Corbyn?

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Adam Smith, philosopher and economist, 1723-1790

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