![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the comparison is by no means exact, certain elements of the present moment in the United States (such as high unemployment, an unstable currency, a moderate-liberal government that finds it difficult to govern due to legislative stalemate, a nascent rightist populist movement fueled by an occasionally racist nativism and hostility to “big government”) certainly resonate with the history of Britain in the 1970s. If the events of history, as Karl Marx once famously argued, happen first as tragedy and recur as re-enacted farce, the reoccurrence of any number of harbingers of doom typical of the last great global recession of the 1970s should indicate that we are in for hilarious times. ![]()
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