![]() It groups people as bundles and sets them against one another" (and also, more famously, to insist that "there is no such thing as society").Īll political leaders in advanced democracies are concerned with prosperity, economic opportunity, social mobility. When his predecessor, John Major, succeeded Margaret Thatcher, in 1990, he announced as his goal "a classless society," by which he meant a society in which "we remove the artificial barriers to choice and achievement." And Thatcher herself had touched on the topic, albeit to claim, "Class is a communist concept. A middle class that will include millions of people who traditionally may see themselves as working-class, but whose ambitions are far broader than those of their parents and grandparents." Although this was a prime specimen of Blair's rhetorical style (whose distinguishing mark is the adman's verb-starved sentence), he wasn't the first British Prime Minister to dilate on the subject. ![]() "A middle class characterized by greater tolerance of difference, greater ambition to succeed, greater opportunities to earn a decent living. "Slowly but surely the old establishment is being replaced by a new, larger, more meritocratic middle class,"he said. ![]()
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