====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ======================================================================
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:17:32 +1000 Gary MacLennan <[email protected]> writes: > > > > There is a danger of course in such a formulation and that is the > development of a hyper sectarian attitude to the Labour Party. I > include > the word hyper here because truth be told I do not know what the > answer is > in terms of the problems represented by the Labour Party and > Labourism. To > me Mandelsohn and Brown are enemies *tout court*. No alliance is > possible > with them. Yet as a good friend patiently explained to me on my > last trip > to London, services for disabled people like himself would be cut > under a > Cameron government and that was why he was voting Labour. > Well, if Labour were to somehow win the next general election, wouldn't Gordon Brown be cutting services to the disabled, just like Cameron most surely would? It seems to me that the Labour Party has over the years become just like the Democratic Party in the US, except that whereas in the US, at least some radical leftists are able to see that it is just another capitalist party, many British leftists still view it as a "bourgeois workers party" as Lenin had described it more than eighty years ago. Just as in the US, the two parties, despite their differences in rhetoric, enact mostly the same sorts of policies, especially in regards to economic policy and foreign policy, so the same is also true for the Tories versus Labour. Labour is just as much a bourgeois party as the Tories. > > regards > > Gary > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com > > ____________________________________________________________ Hotel Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=RigMeeqEh2rNrYAoAVGU3gAAJ1BRugI4sJACAWmXIev8NAFPAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRAAAAAA= ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
