Roger Day wrote:
> A lot of politics is from the heart, but isn't that how it should be?
>
"And when he cried the little children died in the streets".
On the other hand, "The Infant and the Pearl" by Douglas Oliver is a
tremendous vindication of a particular politics of the heart, contra a
Thatcherism which was widely reviled for its heartlessness. I'm still
not certain that its heartlessness was particularly the worst, or even a
particularly bad, thing about it, although she and her followers had a
way of speaking about people that was intolerable. But that may itself
have been emotionally driven; class contempt is no more a rational
attitude than brotherly love.
Dominic
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