My earliest political recollection is from the early 1920s, when I just starting school and there was a general election in England. At that time the two main parties were the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. Between them there was still a vestigial Liberal Party -a remnant of what had once been the only serious alternative to the Conservatives. I remember the boys at school asked me, and each other, for which party our parents were woting. I asked my father and he said, "We voted Liberal. This caused some puzzlement, as the overwhelming majority were by then Conservative or Labour. "Why are you Liberal?". My father, without a moment of hesitation, replieed, "Because we have too much money to be Labour and not enough to be Conservative".
De las memorias de Bernard Lewis, "Notes on a century".
Lewis un genio total. Polémico pero un erudito como pocos.
ReplyDelete¿Qué tal está este libro?
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Delete...hayan desaparecido. Respetuosamente, Don Freeman.
DeleteGracias y disculpe, Anónimo. A veces -más de las que uno quisiera- en la velocidad de la escritura se escapan los horrores ortográficos.
DeleteLeí este comentario, que posteó un amigo, en Facebook, me encantó y lo subí.
DeleteMe parece que habla mucho de hacia dónde y cómo viró el mundo el hecho de que se divida el voto entre conservadores y social-demócrates en el siglo XX, y hayan desaparecido los liberales.
No leí el libro, estoy tratando de conseguirlo.
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