Post by Red Rackham on Oct 12, 2024 18:45:31 GMT
Starmer’s ‘beauty of work’ was a nazi propaganda slogan
During his conference speech – summarised by one wag as ‘spend 17 years getting ready for work and learning to follow the rules, then the rest of your life working and following the rules’ – Keir Starmer quoted ‘the beauty of work’ as a driving force for what passes for his ‘vision’s the UK.
Starmer attributed his idea to Auden – but in fact the ‘beauty of work’, ‘Schönheit der Arbeit’, was the slogan of a propaganda department of the nazi regime from 1934 to 1945:
skwawkbox.org/2021/09/29/starmers-beauty-of-work-was-a-nazi-propaganda-slogan/
During his conference speech – summarised by one wag as ‘spend 17 years getting ready for work and learning to follow the rules, then the rest of your life working and following the rules’ – Keir Starmer quoted ‘the beauty of work’ as a driving force for what passes for his ‘vision’s the UK.
Starmer attributed his idea to Auden – but in fact the ‘beauty of work’, ‘Schönheit der Arbeit’, was the slogan of a propaganda department of the nazi regime from 1934 to 1945:
skwawkbox.org/2021/09/29/starmers-beauty-of-work-was-a-nazi-propaganda-slogan/
