“A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries’ which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.”

— Anthony Crosland , book The Future of Socialism

The Future of Socialism by Anthony Crosland.
The Future of Socialism (1956)

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