Anthony Crosland was one of the most fascinating and important figures in British politics since the war. An Oxford economics don before becoming MP for Grimsby he held a succession of middle ranking ministerial posts before becoming Foreign Secretary under James Callaghan. He died in 1977 aged only 58.
"'The key social democratic text remains Tony Crosland's The Future of Socialism...' Will Hutton 'The most important post-War attempt to define a non Marxist socialism for the Labour Party.' Financial Times 'Labour's greatest Revisionist intellectual' The Independent 'Discussion of the theory of socialism still revolves around what Crosland wrote 40 years ago.' Roy Hattersley"
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