Re: But does everyone concur that without the media et al's anti-semite assault he'd have won? Archived Message
Posted by Dovetail Joint on December 16, 2022, 8:57 pm, in reply to "But does everyone concur that without the media et al's anti-semite assault he'd have won?"
Unfortunately the world isn't fair and the media has always been biased. That, politically, after all, is what they are thr for. What irks me, is that Coryn and his team were so unprepared and had no real strategy for dealing with the campaign to destroy the Corbyn project. How is that possible? Surely, having lived inside the monster, they were well-placed to understad the true character of the beast? Was it down to sentimentality about the Labour tribe? Surely the left have to attempt to learn something from the Corbyn years? I'd argue that Loach is wrong to put so much emphasis on the BBC and the Guardian and the rest of the media, and not enough on the nature o the Labour Party itself. That it is structurally anti-socialist and has been for decades. Unfortunately I think that probably, on balance, it, the Corbyn period, was a bad idea, because it raised hopes to unrealistic heights that change was possible, tht social democracy could be revived merely by voting for it, when, for decades powerful forces in society have worked tirelessly to crush those quaint asperations. The great activist wave that Corbyn surfed on and into power in the Labour Party, deserved far, far more, from him and the rest of the leadership. So much promise was wantonly disipated and left high and dry and disillusioned. Youthful idealism, simply pissed away by a leadership that wasnt politically astute or gifted enough to see what they had and how they should use it. Why did they, seemingly, understand so little and why were they so unwilling or incapable of using the little power they had,while they had it? There are profound lessons to be learnt here, but are the left capable of learning them, if they don't honestly address them?
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