Owen Jones,This Land: The Story of a Movement
Allen Lane: London 2020
352 pp, 978 0 2414 7094 7
OLIVER EAGLETON
VICIOUS, HORRIBLE PEOPLE
Arange of coroners’reports followed the expiry of Corbynism. In early
2020 Jeremy Gilbert published his five-part analysis of the election
defeat on openDemocracy, pinpointing various factors—a conflict-averse
leader, a misplaced emphasis on austerity, an insufficient focus on
democratic reform—that guaranteed Labour’s impotence before a bullish
Johnsonian nationalism. Former shadow cabinet members Ian Lavery and Jon
Trickett, by contrast, identified Brexit as a prime mover in the
catastrophe. Joe Guinan wrote for/Red Pepper/on the failure to build a
radical constituency through community organizing and political
education, while Owen Hatherley pondered the difficulty of pitching
redistributive policies to embittered homeowners in deindustrialized
regions. Yet the first extended treatments of this topic, which
reconstruct Corbynism’s collapse through the testimonies of aides and
shadow ministers, arrived almost simultaneously last September:/Left
Out/, the standard journalistic account by/Times/reporters Gabriel
Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, and/This Land/by Owen Jones, which appeared
three weeks later.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii127/articles/oliver-eagleton-vicious-horrible-people
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