What has changed since 1937 ?

[Captain Oates 911]

I thought you might like this Aneurin Bevan quotation from 1937 - it sounds as if he is talking about Perry or Bachmann !

The more things change, the more they are the same thing - or as the French say 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'

Economics, said Mr Stanley, is 50% psychology … What we need, apparently, is not statesman but hypnotists, not scientists, but witchdoctors, not confidence born of scientific prediction of the future, but confidence created by a political Confidence Trick. There is nothing surprising in this. It is the kind of mystic Mumbo-Jumbo to which capitalism is driven when austere reason pronounces sentence of death upon it. It is the primitive recoil from reality and the burdens of reality which lies at the root of Fascist psychology.

Tribune, 5 November 1937

Edited September 21, 2011 by Alan the Red