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9 years ago

we have a movement to build

We have a movement to build. In the process, we may lose the next two or three elections. As long as our enemies control the media, dominate workplaces and determine the nature of so many community institutions, they will always be able to frighten enough of the electorate into voting against us to…

—p.146 Corbyn and the Future of Labour: A Verso Report The Question of Leadership (128) by Jeremy Gilbert
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the liberal and the sociological models of politics

The great difference between the liberal and the sociological models, however, is that the latter can at least explain the former. It is easy to understand where the idea of politics as marketing comes from and why it has so much support if we think about the fact that it essentially serves the int…

—p.143 The Question of Leadership (128) by Jeremy Gilbert
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there is no middle ground

To imagine that Labour could overcome such odds by becoming bland, blurred and craven is to succumb to thinking that is simultaneously magical and despairing. Such dreamers argue that Labour has to recapture the middle ground. But there is no such place; no fixed political geography. The middle gro…

—p.50 The Curator of the Future (50) by George Monbiot
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the only truly sovereign state

[...] Everybody knows that Britain has been a vassal state since 1956. While I favour Brexit for good socialist reasons, it can’t restore sovereignty. The only truly sovereign state in the Western world is the United States. [...]

—p.33 Corbyn’s Progress (15) by Tariq Ali
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not just about taking power for power’s sake

[...] it is not just about taking power for power’s sake or to win solely by parliamentary majority, but also about initiating a counter-hegemonic shift towards a fairer, more just society [...]

—p.14 Introduction (11) missing author