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On Sunday Jim Anderton died, just two weeks before his 80th birthday. Anderton was the most significant social democrat in NZ politics in the past 40 years. My parents were personal friends of Anderton's as well as political followers and activists in his movement. I have a 'personal' view of Anderton - he was a kind and generlous individual - and a 'political' one - he was an autocrat in whom was reflected the contradictions of social democracy, leading eventually to him betraying core principles whereas he had once stood firm in support of certainb principles against all his fellow Labour MPs/gobshites and departed the LP to found a significant new movement. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/jim-anderton-1938-2018-new-zealands-last-social-democrat/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
