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Why the left is afraid of itself : Comments
By Aidan Anderson, published 10/9/2015The very real possibility that a politician from the left will assume leadership of a mainstream political party has sent British commentators into hysterics.
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As an aside, I get a kick out of this notion (that I'm sure Corbyn will flog) of the 99 % against the evil 1 %: I suggest that it might be more of a matter of the top 50 % (MINUS the evil 1 %) trying to rally the bottom 50 % to, as usual, fight its battles for them. I suspect that every revolution has actually been along those lines: the professionals trying to rally the lumpens against the evil plutocrats, to fight and die for them, and for their manifest destiny of more efficient rule.
Sorry, Tristan, as a sort-of-Marxist, I still tend to see things in class terms. You suggest that Corbyn is al old-fashioned social democrat - like Tony Benn, I suppose, people who learn nothing from experience, as the world goes by, and doesn't ever come back, for the convenience of social democrats.
Joe