We need to stop obsessing approximately Blair’s legacy,acknowledge the limits of markets, and admit our economic model is bust“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a worthy variety of morbid symptoms appear.” So said Antonio Gramsci. And there are few more obvious signs of political morbidity than the collapse, or intellectual as well as organisational,of those moderate sections of the Labour party that did not back Jeremy Corbyn.
His victory was both remarkable and total. So now, every member has a duty to engage with the Corbyn-led debate approximately the future of the left and his rethink of our political method. As Peter Mandelson’s memo establish it, and the old labels and past fights need to be forgotten. Because final week the terrible consequences of our failure to resume was made plain when the Tories rammed through savage cuts to tax credits alongside an ugly assault on trade union rights.
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Source: theguardian.com