Re: Aaron Bastani: "A short thread of Labour figures citing Hobson" Archived Message
Posted by George Brennan on May 1, 2019, 3:29 pm, in reply to "Aaron Bastani: "A short thread of Labour figures citing Hobson""
HI Burt, Your Wikipedia revelation is well found. So Wikipedia is primed even before the Today program. The smear campaign is incredibly well organized. But they are now scraping the barrel Yaroufakis tweeted: “Anti-Corbyn plotters are getting desperate. To perpetuate their antisemitism slander they are lambasting Jeremy for writing, in a blurb to JA Hobson's Imperialism's new edition, that it was both “brilliant” and “very controversial at the time''. They need to try much, much harder” Below link is a curiosity, for anyone with curiosity. As always, Taylor is a scintillating read. In it he remarks that intellectual discourse has gone downhill since the days of Hobson and that forgotten man HN Brailsford. Since Taylor’s own day it has descended to the level of the Today Programme scraping that barrel with allusions to a mysterious “tome” made to sound like the Protocols. I had not grasped Nick Robinson was even talking about Hobson’s undoubtedly brilliant and controversial 1902 book Taylor would do anything to avoid a platitude, and some find he cuts sharp rather than deep. In 2011 when Corbyn apparently wrote that blurb, and in the light of what is called neo-colonialism, Hobsonian ideas perhaps seemed to have more purchase than they did in 1952 when costly colonies were being shedded. https://www.panarchy.org/taylor/imperialism.1952.html gb
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