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The sad state of the Left in a lot of Europe too: trying to out-racist the right.
Stuart Hall said it best: Labour’s mistake is that it doesn’t have a historical project that isn’t electoral politics https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals
Stuart Hall said it best: Labour’s mistake is that it doesn’t have a historical project that isn’t electoral politics https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals
‘Mrs Thatcher always aimed, not for a short electoral reversal, but for a long historical occupancy of power. That occupancy of power was not simply about commanding the apparatuses of the state.’ Hall
‘We cannot, after Gramsci, go back to the notion of mistaking electoral politics, or party politics in a narrow sense, or even the occupancy of state power, as constituting the ground of modern politics itself.’ Hall
‘The Left, in its organised, labourist form, does not seem to have the slightest conception of what putting together a new historical project entails.’
A classic: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2448-stuart-hall-gramsci-and-us
A classic: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2448-stuart-hall-gramsci-and-us
