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Ideologies / State Socialist / Stafford Cripps
Stafford Cripps — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1889–1952 · United Kingdom · Chancellor

Stafford Cripps

Austerity and the plan

The planner's socialism.

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The austere post-war Chancellor whose faith in central planning, controls and the direction of industry embodied the statist, technocratic wing of British socialism.

social

Ascetic Christian-socialist moralist.

economic

Central planning, controls and nationalisation to rebuild Britain.

governance

Technocratic-statist, austere and directive.

Notable for
  • Post-war central planning
  • Directed exports and austerity
  • Christian socialism
central-planningausteritychristian-socialism
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