Perfectly true. Statist social democracy is an inherently cross-class, and ultimately nationalist, project. This is the party Labour has been for the vast majority of its existence. Criticise rightwards lurches by all means, but they’re reversions to type, not aberrations.
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1356710844894167046
This doesn’t mean Labour left should shrug and accept this stuff on a “well, what do you expect?” basis, but if we’re going to transform the labour movement we have to actually *contest* its dominant ideology, not just be despairingly outraged at the fact that it *is* dominant.
I am aware that I risk sounding like a smug know-it-all here - “*I* have an analysis of the cross-class nature of Labour, *you* are merely despairingly outraged” - and whilst that is, ultimately, what being a male leftist on Twitter is all about, that’s not actually my intent.
A healthy of dose of outrage is, of course, a necessary ingredient, but unless it impels action, it’s at best merely personally cathartic and at worst incapacitating. The question needs to be: how do we build an effective class-struggle internationalist tendency in Labour?
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