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In Place of Fear
  
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In Place of Fear (Paperback)

by Aneurin Bevan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 203 pages
  • Publisher: Quartet Books; New edition edition (1 Dec 1978)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0704301229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0704301221
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 352,156 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bevan wishes freedom , not fear , to motivate all of us., 16 Oct 1998
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Aneurin Bevan's 'In Place of Fear' is indeed , as it's back cover claims , as relevant today as it was when it was written in the early 1950s. Atlee's great reforming postwar Labour government , in which Bevan held a key cabinet post , lost power to Churchill's Conservatives , despite outpolling Churchill , and getting more votes than they had got in 1945. Bevan's key theme in this book is the necessity of organised political parties to bring about the alleviation of poverty and unemployment worldwide. He shows how 19th and early 20th century attempts by trade unions to gain reform by direct industrial action failed - because they did not have the political legitimacy that a democratic political party has in a political system where elected governments are the only acceptable rulers. Just like the late John Smith , leader of the British Labour party until his death in 1994 , Bevan believed that Democracy and Socialism (not Communism) go hand in hand. The unrestrained free-market , by taking away employment , income and housing from a small but constantly growing proportion of the population undermines democracy. What is the use of the right to vote if you are starving ? This is expressed most eloquently in his claim that 'Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the " greatest good of the greatest number " can excuse indifference to individual suffering'. Rather than an economy based on the attempt to frighten people into working harder by allowing many to fall into unemployment , poverty and homelessness pour les encouragement des outres , Bevan proposes that government provide for the basic needs of all through a comprehensive welfare system , motivating ourselves and others to achieve greater feats by a culture of mutual support and encouragement led by government action. The governments of the world must also co-operate to prevent the anarchy , instability and insecurity inherent in a purely free-market system. This is what the great architect of the British National Health Service proposed in place of the fear and insecurity produced by government non-interventionism and the resulting mass unemployment which took place between the wars and led to the rise to power of the Communists and Fascists - and so to the Second World War. Just as the British National Health Service which Bevan founded still survives and cares for it's patients , so also in the aftermath of the Cold War this book has much to say that is still relevant today if we wish to create a fairer world and avoid the rise of new Hitlers and Stalins.
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3.0 out of 5 stars In place of fear, 28 Aug 2009
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This review is from: In Place of Fear (Paperback)
Some cracking one liners that are still pertinent today. I little on the rambling side though.
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