tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post392306217335461772..comments2024-01-04T19:27:02.335-08:00Comments on Zenpolitics: Blair, Welfare and the 'Corbyn problem' - keeping politics in safe handsJohn Hilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-86458857068243636602015-07-30T00:53:14.037-07:002015-07-30T00:53:14.037-07:00Thanks, Youri. Well said. Be sure also to read the...Thanks, Youri. Well said. Be sure also to read the latest excellent piece from Media Lens on the whole media 'stop Corbyn' operation, noting, in particular, the Guardian circle's 'guiding' words. <br /><br />Fantasy Politics - 'Corbyn's Morons' And The 'Sensible Approach' <br />http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2015/797-corbyn.html<br /><br />John Hilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-76963868894814995312015-07-29T22:47:51.956-07:002015-07-29T22:47:51.956-07:00hey John! I've read your mythbusting articles ...hey John! I've read your mythbusting articles before, and this one is superb, straight out of the ball park! Once again the so called respectable liberal media from the Guardian, the Independent, to the Daily Mirror, and Channel 4, are showing their true colors as like George Galloway, Russell Brand (before he endorsed lameduck Milliband but his documentary 'Emperor's New Clothes is a must see), and Tony Benn back in the 70s and 80s are making Corbyn public enemy number one. They aren't progressive, and certaintly not Anti-Tory, and in the case of Owen Jones not true socialist if they can whitewash Tony Blair's horrendous neo-liberal policies and the cult of New Labor he's left behind, and just put the bloody carnage that was Iraq under the wrong, as if yes the glass was broken but just hide the mess, no one will notice. <br /><br />Corbyn is brilliant, he's not a radical as people make him out to be, he's actually quite moderate, but he is a truth teller, and the kind of Old Labor that Labor should be, both domestically and foreignly. I hope those who support Respect, the Greens, and those very members of the party tell people to support Corbyn, and Corbyn isn't afraid to reach out a hand of solidarity to them as he's protested alongside the Stop the War Coalition, and is fond of if you read the Morning Star and the few independent newsoutlets in the UK. If he and Bernie Sanders are suppressed, vilified, and the establishment New Labor or New Democrats once again are favored then there really is no hope, and we will always get fooled again like the Who talked about, and we'll continue to live in Orwell's Animal Farm. Yourinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-12258760359184933222015-07-24T16:36:49.666-07:002015-07-24T16:36:49.666-07:00Thanks for your comments, radcliffe and John.
Yes...Thanks for your comments, radcliffe and John.<br /><br />Yes, there's no escaping the truth of just how much of a grip the forces of neoliberalism have over us. The way in which the Guardian circle are helping to savage Corbyn also shows just how vital that ideological policing role is in upholding the power system, and the warning that it really is an 'unchallengeable reality'. And yet, look at the advances, albeit with great difficulty, still being made by Podemos. As Gramsci asserted: 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. <br /><br />I'm not sure it's a matter of Corbyn being either suitable or up to leading any such struggle. It's more a case of building movement politics, rather than party politics and party leaders. <br /><br />And, indeed, what "a psychopathic powerful elite [has] inflicted on an entire population" IS "a warning to us all." That's been the whole point. Don't even dare think about it, or you'll get a dose of what we've force-fed on Greece.<br /><br />However, Greece is also showing up the massive crisis of neoliberal capitalism itself, which can only feed more political instability and pressure for change.John Hilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-60908348340021880472015-07-24T12:41:10.869-07:002015-07-24T12:41:10.869-07:00Thanks for the article John, nicely written. As Ra...Thanks for the article John, nicely written. As Radcliffe has just posted, we do see the near total triumph of neoliberalism - the right has won, not just in the UK, but around the world. What has and is happening in the UK is the same in New Zealand. Indeed in this country is was a Labour government who introduced so many neoliberal policies in the 1980s. NZ Labour is the same effete and corporatist party as in the UK, with a few softening touches, much as a doctor might put lubricant on his gloved finger before doing a rectal, and apart from the Greens, the left has failed in main stream politics - opposition is now devolved to other activists organisations, fractured and for the most part, ineffectual. What has happened to Greece, the sheer ruthlessness and vindictiveness that a psychopathic powerful elite inflicted on an entire population, should be a warning to us all. Basically this is a class struggle, it always is, and what could be more old fashioned as that - in which case who could be more equipped to lead this struggle than a man like Corbyn? Unfortunately, more likely the downfall of the right will be its own internal contradictions, and its environmental and social destruction. It is more likely that things will eventually become very nasty indeed than a single man like Corbyn can turn the tide beforehand, however decent and principled he is.John Monronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-70898327344616283192015-07-24T05:13:13.314-07:002015-07-24T05:13:13.314-07:00It is blatantly clear now that the neoliberal con...It is blatantly clear now that the neoliberal consensus has taken a deeper hold than could possibly be imagined. All pretence at any Socialism has been expunged and Labour values built up over decades, fought and in some case died for have been abandoned. I feel physically sick every time I hear Hunt, Blair, Kendall et al spouting their version of this consensus while dressing it in the clothes of a Labour Party that no longer exists in their mind. They are the splitters, the collaborators, the traitors to the party and people who made them. I despair.radcliffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00355376284998348529noreply@blogger.com