Human Wrongs Watch
By Roberto Savio*
Rome, 12 April — The flood of elegiac articles on former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is in itself a good measure of how we have all become Thatcherites without realising it. Only those who are not graced by a young age can see how the world and politics have changed so deeply since her days that it is correct to call her a “great revolutionary”.
**Thatcher in 1990 | Credit: Jay Galvin | Wikipedia Commons
Let us recall something that has been completely forgotten. Immediately after the end of the World War II, two other major events took place.
One was the end of colonies and the creation of the Third World, the other was the creation of a powerful and strong socialist bloc, led by the Soviet Union, but with offshoots in Africa, Latin America and Asia, from Angola to Cuba and China, for example.
Both events had a sobering effect on the political and philosophical sectors based on capitalism, and led to an era of social democracy.
Those two events gave rise to the attempt to create an international order based on cooperation and social justice at national and international level.
