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Intact dust jacket with a few wear issues atop the spin, other than that a perfect book.
Signed and inscribed 1969.
Left Luggage: A Caustic History of British Socialism from Marx to Wilson (1967) is a scathing critique of British socialism by C.
Northcote Parkinson.
Parkinson argues that socialist policies are based on faulty logic, leading to inefficient government bureaucracy, declining national prosperity, and flawed ideology from the Webbs to Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
C.
Northcote Parkinson, a naval historian, public administration scholar, and famous author of Parkinson's Law.
A caustic, satirical examination of the British welfare state and trade unions.
Chronicles the ideological shift and "socialist drift" in Britain from Karl Marx's influence to Harold Wilson's Labour government.
Parkinson, a self-described foe of overtaxation and bureaucratic "bigness," claims the welfare state and "mixed economy" are based on impractical, flawed theories.
While some saw it as a sharp critique of post-war Labour policies, critics found it sometimes relied on "straw men" and sweeping generalizations, notes.
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