>In a message dated 00-02-12 16:48:17 EST, you write:
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><< Who can tell me about the "New Times" movement in the UK? What was it,
> what became of it, and where can I read about it?
> >>
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>This was a 1980s trendlet pushed by people like Stuart Hall and other
>ex-new-lefties. the premise was that the political economy and culture of
>British society in particular had made a qualitative change from rhe old
>model of class-conflict industrial relations and class-stratified social
>relations. Basically, Britain was becoming Americanized. This was an effort
>to explain the appeal of Thatcher and the failures of Old Labour, why Benn or
>Kinnock didn't catch fire. You can read the writings of Hall and other New
>Timesists in, e.g., The New Statesman of that epoch. There was also some
>discussion in NLR; I seem to recall that Perry Anderson gives it one of his
>usual magisterial surveys. It seems to have dried upi n the last decade as an
>intellectual movement, but its themes were carried over, with all the left
>wing elements stripped out, into Tony Blair's New Labour.
I also believe the CPGB was big on the new times theme. Marxism Today, under the editorship of Martin Jacques, was another major organ, right?
Doug