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By Patrick Diamond

the hot Labour venture was once now not conjured up out of skinny air — it simply appears that approach due to the party's amnesia concerning the highbrow roots and political traditions that have guided it. This publication offers extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians positioned in the revisionist culture as an antidote to that amnesia. it really is an 'all famous person solid' from R.H. Tawney, Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland to Roy Hattersley, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. the gathering demonstrates that Labour's revisionism isn't really a inflexible physique of doctrine yet a 'cast of brain' that distinguishes among middle values (ends) and coverage tools (means) — revisionist thinkers are engaged within the non-stop pursuit of coverage innovation, by no means shrinking from forsaking guidelines that fail to accomplish the specified ends. All profitable Labour governments were made up our minds to prevent the confusion of capability and ends. those essays convey a decision during the party's historical past to discuss and talk about political principles within the explanation for a fairer, extra equivalent society. totally up-to-date and revised edition.

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