Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Kinda stating the obvious but ok. As for myself: I am politically homeless at the moment.
Is all that politics now offers the circulation of elites? If so, the differences between those elites are less pronounced than they once were. The Labour Party’s purpose was never to put actual workers in parliament: after all, a miner could not do a shift at the coal face then turn up at Westminster of an evening, as a London barrister could. Rather, it was created to put the products of elementary schools, of apprenticeships, into parliament. It was thus the party not of the working class, but of the organized working class: it put trade union officials into parliament, alongside some political activists. And until the 1940s, though most of its voters were working-class, it barely attracted half of the working-class vote. ©

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