Bernard Crick Quote

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.


Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 94. - In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981


One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of...

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of...

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of...

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of...