The first half of this is a decent summary of the Labour leadership's current rationale: the back half - "will LOTO even engage with the left policies of 2017/19?" is the wrong question. Thread 1/ (read it first!) newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/…
2/ We are facing a solid voting bloc of people who will vote for the Tories - no matter how incompetent or corrupt - so long as they validate racism. It's a new situation. It needs Labour to a) be a bigger tent b) form new political alliances...
3/ The Labour Together election report outlines the de facto strategy: big change offer on economics combined with an attempt to reconnect on Ainsley's 4x values: "family, fairness, decency and hard work" - see my essay medium.com/@paulmasonnews…
4/ The point for the left is how to intersect with that strategy to a) boost the self-activity of both sections of the working class b) fight fascism c) draw lines across which the neoliberals and warmongers cannot cross...
5/ What's lacking right now is not a bunch of policies - it's a concrete vision: you can't just "see it in your mind's eye" because we are in a battle for the soul of small town Britain, fighting a racist Utopia... this from my column newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
6/ And here's the choice facing the Labour left: "this won't work, we're off to do something else" or to engage with the strategy and the attempt to build on the ground something that can resist authoritarian nationalism with a strong, emotional narrative
7/ Finally, though Ainsley's analysis of class is superficial (based on GBCS) , sub-theoretical nostalgia is no antidote: there is a materialist analysis of the cultural split and - in Gramsci's PN - the basis for a Marxist solution to it ... see here: medium.com/@paulmasonnews…
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