I posted this in Twitter this afternoon, summarising a conversation I had today:
I think this is the choice that we as a society now face.
We know that Labour is refusing to tax wealth right now. In that case it is enabling fascism, in my opinion. This is what worries me about it, above all else.
Fascism is the enemy now. Events in the USA are making that clearer by the moment, and Labour are already indicating that they think that this is a matter about which they need have no opinion, as if the rise of fascism there is a matter of no concern to it, and is a matter about which we may not comment because of our ‘special relationship' with the US, which requires us to befriend the fascists when they get to power.
My sense that we are walking towards a precipice grows, almost by the minute.
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Couldn’t agree more Richard
The democratic party machine gave us Trump the first time round when they refused to endorse Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton when all the polling said Clinton was going to get beaten and the only chance they had was Bernie who was polling up to 15pts ahead of trump and would likely have won by a mile.
The problem for the hierarchy of the democratic party machine was that Sanders was way too progressive and far too left wing for their donors, they knew if they endorsed him they would lose millions possibly hundreds of millions. So, better to lose with Hillary than win with Bernie and maybe win next time round.
It has been exactly the same story here in the UK
So we had Blair who tinkered around the edges of neolibralism and refused to reform the press or introduce a written constitution he was followed by Brown who was happy to bail out privately owned banks with approx £860 billion of corporate welfare from the public purse but would not lift every child out of poverty.
Brown could have demanded golden shares, seats on boards, percentages of profits but no nothing.
Can you imagine if he had bailed out one single trade union for a couple of million quid he would have been defenestrated.
Corbyn was far too left wing for the hierarchy in the Labour Party who undermined his leadership from the very start with Southbank diverting funds to Right wing MPs with safe seats whilst denying money to those with a fight on.
Right wing Labour MPs in the house tried to undermine him at every opportunity and even colluded in the antisemitic lies and smear campaign.
The Labour machine had clearly decided better another five years of the Tories than a genuine left wing alternative.
The establishment through their friends and relatives in the media be it broadcast or print went full on to stop the one thing they truly feared which was what Corbyn promised
…CHANGE!!!
Now we have Starmer and Reeves and Streeting who are so obviously going to fail to change the lives of the majority of people the UK they will be the midwives to Farage and his fascism.
So called centrists are always the pathway to power for fascists.
In weimar Germany it was the courts that failed they had a chance but flunked it and here we stand 85 years later and we are about to gift fascism another free hand.
I despair.
@patherepublican
An excellent summary
In Weimar it was the SPD who ordered the state assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibnitz, reportly outsourcing their dirty work to right wing militia murder gangs.
Imo, that treachery destroyed any possibilty of strong left alliances thereafter.
I want to shake so many on the left and say that we need a new democratic party. I cannot believe so many plough the same furrows without making an effort, outside of a few boroughs in London. Social Democratic Alliance or Demoncratic Socialist Alliance? Pissed-off Middle-Aged Dullards? Don’t care as long as we get on nationalising water and the privatised bits of the NHS.