Anthony Crosland

Question 1

Book?

Answer 1

Future of socialism (1956)

Question 2

Human nature

Answer 2

HN has a powerful sense of fairness and an innate objection to huge inequalities of outcome

Question 3

The state

Answer 3

Democratic socialist governments prove that the existing state can be used to effect radical socialist change, e.g. Labour 1945-1951

Question 4

Society

Answer 4

• Society is increasingly complicated, altered by the emergence of new social groups comprising ‘meritocratic’ managers and ‘classless’ technocrats
• Argued for comprehensive education, would break down class divisions in 11+
• Due to economic change, society was less polarised between employers and employees

Question 5

Economy

Answer 5

• A mixed economy underpinned by limited public ownership and Keynesian capitalism, will finance the greater public spending needed to secure equality
• Contested that public ownership had gone far enough, true objective was equality
• Capitalism had been changed forever by John Maynard Keynes