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On 10/05/2010 19:29, brad wrote: > I thought this sort of fantasy was displaced long ago by Milliband and > Panitch. > > If you really think that, I'd suggest that you actually read Miliband and Panitch. This is Panitch in 1979: "Precisely because the Labour Party is /part of the labour movement/, this means that the development of class struggle is bound to affect it considerably from within ... The 'class harmony' ideology which has dominated the thinking of the leadership since the founding conventions rejected the concept of class struggle, is consistently challenged not merely by external events and by socialist currents in the Party, but by /the direct expression of working-class struggle within the Party/, above all on those occasions when the trade union acts as immediate agencies of working-class defence against the actions of Labour Governments." (L Panitch, 'Socialists and the Labour Party: A Reappraisal', 1979, emphases added). You can't have read the Milibandian critique that you cite, or if you did, then you can't have read it very closely. -- *Richard Seymour* Writer and blogger Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.leninology.blogspot.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/leninology Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Seymour_(writer) Book: http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/seymour_r_the_liberal_defense_of_murder.shtml ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
