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John asks whether Anthony Albanese is too left wing to be elected. We will probably never know the answer to that question. Currently we are set to see a re-election of the conservative coalition. The multi-millionaire merchant banker, Malcolm Turnbull, will carry his party to what I personally believe will be a landslide. The consumer voter seems convinced that Turnbull 'farts rainbows' as one commentator put it. Certainly, his popularity is huge according to the polls. By contrast the ALP is stuck with a desperately unpopular right wing trade union hack - a true "mechanic". Shorten is an expert at twisting arms, backstabbing, wheedling and doing deals with bosses that betray the interests of workers. The Greens steadfastly refuse to become a party of the Left. So there is no popular anti-austerity formation with an electoral base. What will break this deadlock? Well the next recession should expose Turnbull as a show pony. Shorten will be a bad memory. Maybe then the ALP will tentatively and nervously adapt a Keynesian policy thrust. As always, I look to developments outside Australia. A Chinese recession would be disastrous for the Australian economy. An upheaval in Europe would have an impact. In the meantime, as I have said, it is deadlock. comradely Gary On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:54 PM, John Passant via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > /Is Anthony Albanese too left wing to lead the Australian Labor Party to > an election win? > / > > /Labor would not be unelectable under Albanese, especially if he adopted a > left cover. However if elected to government Albanese’s real neoliberal > agenda would bec/o/me clear to people and they would reject it and him too, > just as they rejected the neoliberalism of Abbott and may well do of > Turnbull, given time and the lived experience of the deleterious impact of > his anti-working class policies.// > / > > A genuine left wing party of the working class in Australia has not yet > developed. Until it does we will remain in the Sisyphean oscillations > between neoliberal Labor and pro-austerity Liberal governments. > > > http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/01/is-albanese-too-left-wing-to-lead-the-labor-party-to-an-election-win/* > * > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
