[lbo-talk] BumptIous Blairites

[Michael Brennan]

It seems to mirror -- though in a more dramatic way -- what is
happening in the Democratic Party, here. In the face of a popular
revolt that could swell the ranks of the party and lift its electoral
fortunes if they embraced it, they choose instead to double down on
defending neo-liberalism and disenfranchise those who they need to win
elections. It seems to me the politicians in these parties are more
comfortable being in the opposition party advancing their individual
careers and protecting their ties to neo-liberal institutions than
being in a ruling party whose base would expect them to do something
for them.

They are OK with defeat. They are not OK with challenges to neo-liberalism.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a constant source of amazement how right-wing social democrats so confidently assume an air of superiority given their repeated electoral setbacks and failure to alter the unequal system of power and property on the occasions when they've held office.
>
> Gary Younge, not an unqualified admirer of Jeremy Corbyn, does a good job here of pricking the pretensions of the Blairite parliamentarians' efforts to mount a coup against The Labour Party leader.
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/13/corbyn-critics-destroying-labour-party-members
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