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After reading the Alan Clark Diaries, I've suddenly developed an interest in Thatcherism. Does /lit/ know any good books on the subject?

>> No.6637136

She wrote a long memoir.

>> No.6637143

>>6637136
I wasn't aware of that, I'll make a note to check it out

>> No.6637171
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6637171

The first volume of an authorised biography by Charles Moore is out atm. I really dislike his politics, but it was meant to be pretty good.

Not a book, but there's a pretty good BBC documentary called the Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, if you want a light introduction.

>> No.6637178

Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty

>> No.6637180

>>6637178
>THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE

>> No.6637201

>>6637171
>I really dislike his politics
That's exactly why I've avoided the Moore biography so far

>> No.6637258

AH VOOT LAHBOUR BECAUSE ME MAM END DHAD VOOT LAHBOUR

COR DAT THATCHER WEEMON IZ THA DEEVAL

>> No.6637263

>>6637258
I know far too many people like that, mostly Scots

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>>6637263
I am a Scot and everyone I know is like that.
>mfw we'll inevitably get independence and a right wing will be nonexistent.

>> No.6637296

>>6637268
I have no doubt some of my Scottish friends would lynch me if I expressed any views even remotely right-wing

>> No.6637299

>>6637129
You might have some fun googling 'Deleuzian Thatcherism'. (Also, the 80s are a white elephant; see you again when you finally turn up nothing.)

>> No.6637305

>>6637268
Is the Blue Labour movement happening in Scotland at all?

>> No.6637307

>>6637305
We one party state now friendo.

>> No.6637309

Not read personally but my father recommends 'When the lghts went out: Britain in the seventies'. Admittedly, Thatcher won't turn up until the latter parts but will give you a good idea of how she came to be PM.

>> No.6637314

>>6637307
Hence why I brought that up.

>> No.6637316

>>6637305

Blue Labour only won one seat last election, SNP pretty much took over, I live in Newcastle and it's a pretty scary thought we've got national socialists so close to our border.

>>6637263

Quite common here in the north of England, people are thick enough to vote for Labour because they still think they represent the working class when both Labour and Conservatives may as well be the same party.

>> No.6637322

>>6637309
Thanks, I'd never heard of that one but it looks fairly promising

>> No.6637350

>>6637316
I'm originally from Sheffield so I'm very familiar with those kinds of people

>> No.6637385

/lit/ defending Thatcher, oh how things have changed.

>> No.6637548

>>6637263
I'm scottish and I have to say I fucking hate how deluded and aggressive the political scene is.

Also fuck those braindead weedgies

>> No.6637638

>>6637129
>interested in Thatcherism
>haven't killed yourself

>> No.6637646

>>6637129
1) Gather some pieces of paper together
2) String them or bind them
3) Vomit all over it
You've just written a biography of Thatcher

>> No.6637649

>m-my marxist hugbox!

>> No.6637659

>>6637316
>national socialists
Are you comparing the SNP to the Nazis?

>> No.6637665

>>6637638
....You can be interested in something and not support it.

>> No.6637670

>>6637665
Not with these tumblr tier intellectuals this board's plagued with.

>> No.6637682

>>6637670
>tumblr tier
As a someone fairly new to /lit/, I've just relatively equal amounts of political shitflinging from the far right and far left on this board and both sides claiming the other side is dominant and ruining this board. Tumblr is too much of a circlejerk to be compared to /lit/.

>> No.6637699

>>6637670
Ban yourself

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6637712

She was a liberal, knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

She rode the North Sea Oil bubble, spent the money and then handed our economy to the banksters.

>2015
>Thatcherism

>> No.6637778

>>6637263
Literally the worst kind of people. You never see Tories or Liberals holding such bitterness.

>> No.6638050

>>6637712

>Conservatives are actually pretty liberal
>Labour are centralist rather than socialists

We may as well be in opposite land

>> No.6638093

>>6637263
Do you have no notion of how bad the Thatcher government was for Scotland it isn't just a random prejudice.

>> No.6638097

>>6638093
>30 YEARS

>> No.6638132

>>6638097
Irrelevant Neoliberalism is stronger than ever.

>> No.6638137

>>6637659

They basically are anyway.

When they start wanting more of their original land back I would be very worried.

>> No.6638150

>>6638137
>They basically are anyway.
I'm not very familiar with British politics, but I thought the SNP was very progressive socially? I find it hard to believe the SNP would be saying things like multiparty democracy enables Jewish bankers to control and subvert countries etc etc... Nazism was a lot more than just nationalism + non-Marxist socialism.