A sobering analysis of formidable but not necessarily insuperable - TopicsExpress



          

A sobering analysis of formidable but not necessarily insuperable challenges to our UK counterpart. - QUOTE (Ross McKibbin in ‘The London Review of Books’, 20/11/14): ‘These changes in the class structure have accompanied, and been partly responsible for, profound ideological changes which have further undermined Labour. Historically it is the party of the state and the public sphere. It has its roots in the late 19th century when much of old privatised Britain was dismantled. Most of the great public institutions of Britain, many now sold off, or like the schools handed over to allies of the ruling party, were 19th-century creations. Over the last forty years these institutions have been under sustained attack, and there is no sign of any let-up. Privatisation is proceeding hell-bent and Labour has done little to resist, even though we know that privatisation is increasingly unpopular, and that some of it always was. Generational changes in party leadership – from those who remember something of the 1940s to those who do not – have been important, as has the emergence of a political elite for whom politics is the whole of life and neoliberalism the proper expression of politics’.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:10:28 +0000

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