The Iron
Lady and José Luis Sampedro died the same day; maybe it’s the only thing they
have ever shared
Margaret
Thatcher (aged 87) and José Luis Sampedro (aged 96) both passed away last Monday
April the 8th. Although Thatcher (Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom for eleven years) is more famous, and she had a very important role in
constructing the world we know, Sampedro (writer, humanist and economist) was
one of the most important thinkers in Spain.
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| He was most known as a writer and left thinker, and se was the first and unique woman to be Prime Minister in the UK. / lecturalia.com & DailiMail.co.uk |
In spite of
the fact that they died the same day, they probably had never met and,
moreover, they probably had never agreed. Thatcher was one (with Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman) of
the most convinced neoliberal ever. Sampedro admitted anarchist in his
nineteen, and have been denouncing the neoliberal system for years. They can
represent the fight between extreme liberalism and the humanist - left. That’s
why we want to put Sampedro and Thatcher front to front.
