Thatcherism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Thatcher + -ism. Popularized by Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in an article in Marxism Today, see quotations.
Proper noun[edit]
Thatcherism
- (UK politics) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.
- 1979 January, Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show”, in Marxism Today, page 14:
- Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects.
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Translations[edit]
political ideology of Thatcher's governments
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