Hated more often than worshiped: Margaret Thatcher is no more.
Will the ultra-liberal doctrine called "Thatcherism" survive him?
In any case, it is clear that it will have marked its era in pain!
Le Monde wrote:In Belfast, in block H of Maze prison, Irish republican prisoners go on a hunger strike to obtain London political prisoner status. Margaret Thatcher does not give in. Bobby Sands was the first to die on May 5, 1981; nine of his comrades will follow. The surviving strikers will keep in mind, all their lives, the sounds of torture: the families who sob, the creaking of the cart which carries away a corpse, the grating which slams.
The strike ends after 172 days. "It was possible to admire the courage of Sands and the hunger strikers who died, but not to sympathize with their murderous cause", she will concede in her Memoirs.
Here is the type of revolting talk that she has made throughout her career!
True ambassador of the military-chemical-industrial complex (herself a chemist) she will have supported the interests of ultra-liberalism to the end (when she was of modest origin, however, as the daughter of a small grocer ).
She will owe her nickname "Iron Lady" because of her great intransigence!
However, even if we hardly talked about her in recent years, the fact that she was losing her mind, it is clear that following the financial crisis, a certain form of thatcherism is needed again, and this time to whole Europe
Totally forgotten the responsibility of banks via financial speculation!
The paradox of the story is that if Thatcher became Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1979, it was due to the failure of Labor who brought England to the brink, requiring 3 IMF loans as any underdeveloped country!
And after...?
Rigor is required throughout Europe! "It is when blood flows in the streets that we make a profit", they say in the stock markets! While paradoxically the rulers had nevertheless declared to whoever wanted to hear it, that the rigor would be "against-productive"for growth.
No longer knowing which saint to turn to, both the right and the left have only one theory in their mouths: competitiveness!
I believe that even Thatcher would not have dared this concept there!
Why hasn't ultra-liberalism (which will lead to the concept of "globalization") better solve long-term crises than socialism? Why is the world getting worse and worse, when we have never produced so much "wealth", thanks to robots and collective efforts? Why no one can manage to make ends meet properly (neither doctors, nor mechanics, nor lawyers, nor .... commercial employees in banks, nor anyone!) Why still and always so many social tragedies after the closing of 'companies? Where does the money go and who really owns it?
Has Thatcherism definitively buried socialism with it?
In short, why is the world running on its head, and what else after ...?