1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING. “My own fav

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-did-british-left-reject.htmlBY 1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING.

“My own favoured explanation is that the Left realized that its traditional appeal – focused on the abolition of serious material poverty (starvation, homelessness, exposure to life-threatening cold etc.) and equal opportunity according to merit rather than birth.

“By the 1950s it was apparent that these had already happened – so the Left needed a new agenda, and started systematically lying about reality.

“This was the ‘turn’ from Old Left to New Left – old Left being about prosperity and opportunity – New Left (which became Political Correctness) about favourable outcomes for designated victim groups, and about ‘oppression’ of these groups conceptualized as psychological suffering rather than life-threatening deprivation. “