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Paul Mason On Fighting Fascism
Some months ago, I ran a series on Paul Mason’s latest views on how the Left in the Labour Party should respond to the election of Keir…
Boffy
Jan 15
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
The lessons that the Left should learn are almost diametrically opposed to those that Paul has proposed. Rather than a collapse into the…
Boffy
Nov 15, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
The fetishisation of winning elections, as against the building of a principled movement and party of the Left, leaves Paul chasing…
Boffy
Nov 14, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
Labour’s 2019 Programme was a confused mess. At the heart of that mess was the contradiction it faced over its commitment to pursue Brexit…
Boffy
Nov 13, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
“Because the liberal+centrist vote is clustered in the big cities, or in the exurban constituencies we already hold, there is no route to…
Boffy
Nov 9, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
“As a result of this they have consolidated a new and highly defensible “position” (in the Gramscian metaphor): a populist, authoritarian…
Boffy
Nov 6, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
Paul draws heavily on Gramscian concepts of strategy of “war of position”, “war of manoeuvre”, and the concept of “hegemony” to flesh out…
Boffy
Nov 5, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part…
If we look at those voting for Brexit, they were overwhelmingly Tory voters, and they were reactionary Tory voters drawn predominantly…
Boffy
Nov 4, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part 8…
When we look at this question of “values”, we find that they correlate extremely closely with the way people voted in relation to Brexit…
Boffy
Nov 3, 2020
Labour, The Left, and The Working Class — A Response To Paul Mason — Lessons For The Left — Part 7…
Paul’s approach is riven with idealism and subjectivism rather than materialism. The obvious manifestation is in Paul’s discussion of…
Boffy
Nov 2, 2020
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