Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good Glasman Maurice
Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good Glasman Maurice Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school statism and identity…
Specifikacia Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good Glasman Maurice
Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good Glasman Maurice
Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school statism and identity politics. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible.
Human beings, he contends, are not calculating machines, but faithful, relational beings who yearn for meaning and belonging. Both ultimately failed.In this book, Maurice Glasman takes the axe to the soulless utilitarianism and 'progressive' intolerance of both Blair and Corbyn. Rooted in their homes, families and traditions, they seek to resist the revolutionary upheaval of markets and states, which try to commodify and dominate their lives and homes, by the practice of democracy, mutuality and pluralism.
This is the true Labour tradition, which is paradoxically both radical and