Anthony Crosland

• what is Crosland’s view on human nature?

  • human nature has a powerful sense of fairness and an innate objection to huge inequalities in income
• what kind of socialist is Crosland?

  Social democracy
• what is Crosland’s view of the state

  democratic socialist governments (Labour 1945-51) prove the existing state can be used for radical socialist change
• what is Crosland’s view on society?

  society is increasingly complicated

  • new classes -> meritocratic managers and classless technocrats
• what is Crosland’s view on the economy?

  a mixed economy underpinned by limited public ownership Keyensian capitalism will finance the greater public spending necessary to secure equality