Left. No. 76, What they say about the Beveridge Report
1943-01 1943 1940s 8 pages I am convinced that our proper attitude to the Beveridge Report is to increase our efforts to make Britain Socialist Now. Our past criticisms of the social insurance schemes have been fully justified. The contributory principle is all wrong. Unification and comprehensivene...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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[London : Controversy Pub. Co.]
January 1943
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I am convinced that our proper attitude to the Beveridge Report is to increase our efforts to make Britain Socialist Now. Our past criticisms of the social insurance schemes have been fully justified. The contributory principle is all wrong. Unification and comprehensiveness and adequacy of amount can only be realised in a new social order based on the common ownership of the means of life. Common Wealth: Statement to Branches. — The National Committee of Common Wealth welcomes the Beveridge Plan as sound in principle . . . Common Wealth, without illusions, must fight with other progressives for full acceptance of its principles. . . . But the Plan is not a revolution. It would not by itself fundamentally alter the structure of British socicty, nor make any serious breach in the private ownership system. It provides a basis on which a democratic socialist community could build, but it might also be twisted — as might a State medical service — into one of the instruments necessary to a Corporate State. . . . Beveridge says that his Plan cannot work properly unless mass unemployment is prevented. He says that he does not know how this is to be done, but only that it must be done. Common Wealth exists to preach the view that — if it is to be done democratically - mass unemployment can be abolished when the obstacle of private ownership of our great resources has been removed.
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