Socialism and woke extremism gained’t save the UK — RT World Information

In his well-known political tract – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, revealed in 1852 – Karl Marx proffered the generalization that “historical past repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce.”

Marx noticed Napoleon’s demise as tragedy. Having been born within the German Rhineland – which Napoleon had briefly dragged into the progressive orbit of the French Revolution – Marx, like all progressive German political thinkers of the 1840s, was bitterly upset by Napoleon’s defeat in 1815.

From this angle, he seen Louis Napoleon’s coup in 1851 – by which Napoleon’s authoritarian and inept nephew overthrew the second French republic – as an unseemly farce.

Observers who witnessed the current preliminary Your Get together convention in Liverpool may simply have walked away believing that old-style socialism and modern left progressivism had descended into the realm of farce.

What occurred in Liverpool, nevertheless, went past farce and degenerated into utter absurdity.

The Your Get together is a brand new revolutionary socialist and progressive leftist get together created earlier this yr by two refugees from the UK Labour Get together – the old-style socialist Jeremy Corbyn and the progressive leftist activist Zarah Sultana.

The brand new get together seeks to fuse Corbynite socialism with woke progressivism – with the goal of attracting sufficient working class votes to allow it to implement its revolutionary political program.

Issues, nevertheless, didn’t go effectively on the Liverpool convention. A bitter conflict between the 2 get together co-founders, Corbyn and Sultana, befell on the primary day of the convention – which proved that Corbynite socialism and left progressivism are ideologies which have reached their use-by date.

Corbyn was pushed out of the Labour Get together in 2024 as a result of the get together had way back, below Tony Blair, rejected his model of socialism – and Keir Starmer regarded him as an embarrassing anachronism. Corbyn’s mentors had been Michael Foot and Tony Benn – and below Blair he had vegetated on the again bench.

Corbyn turned chief of the Labour Get together in 2015 by default, because of the get together’s electoral defeat and a restructuring that allowed members – relatively than members of parliament – to elect the chief.

Corbyn signed up hundreds of latest members, who elected him chief. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs by no means supported Corbyn – and his crushing defeat by Boris Johnson on the 2020 election ended the get together’s temporary flirtation with Corbyn’s model of atavistic socialism without end.

Corbyn’s defeat made it clear that the British working class rejected Corbynite socialism – as that they had Michael Foot’s model in 1983 – and far most well-liked Johnson’s model of “levelling up” conservatism. Subsequently, working-class voters have flocked to assist the right-wing populism of Nigel Farage’s Reform Get together, which has denounced all woke ideologies and vowed to curb mass immigration.

Sultana left the Labour Get together earlier this yr as a result of it was not sufficiently dedicated to the woke ideologies that she so fervently embraces, particularly transgender rights and open borders – each elite ideologies which have by no means garnered any assist amongst economically displaced working-class voters within the UK.

The partnership between Corbyn and Sultana was, subsequently, at all times a really uneasy one – and it was hardly stunning that the divisions between them broke into open warfare on the get together convention in Liverpool final week.

The convention was attended by some 2,500 delegates, lots of them trans activists and members of varied obscure left-wing political sects.

Every co-founder had very completely different views as to how the get together must be structured. Corbyn wished a conventional get together construction with a powerful chief – presumably himself. Sultana wished a celebration instantly answerable to the membership and dominated by a committee elected by members.

Get together members handed motions supporting Sultana on these key points – thereby, in impact, sidelining Corbyn from the get together he had co-founded.

After boycotting the primary day of the convention, at which Corbyn spoke, Sultana reappeared on the second day and delivered what can solely be described as a unprecedented speech setting out the get together’s political program.

Corbyn applauded the speech, so he should be taken to be in full settlement with it – a certain signal of his full lack of political judgment and incapacity to denounce woke extremism.

The get together program, as enunciated by Sultana, incorporates the next insurance policies:

• abolition of the monarchy;
• nationalization of water, vitality, transport, communications, banking, finance, meals and building industries;
• open borders;
• strengthening of transgender rights;
• shutting down the Israeli Embassy and pushing for the abolition of Israel and the creation of a single state in Palestine;
• having Keir Starmer, David Lammy and different Labour politicians prosecuted on the Worldwide Felony Courtroom for warfare crimes;
• extra typically, “taking down the wealthy and highly effective parasites” that rule Nice Britain in a fashion not specified by Ms. Sultana.

There’s, in fact, an air of utter unreality about this program. It’s a unusual utopian mixture of Corbynite socialism and woke extremism – infused with a superb dose of “magical pondering.” No political get together that was critical about successful workplace would contemplate adopting it for a second.

Such an outrageously irrational and undeliverable program may by no means attraction to a majority of UK voters – even amongst these displaced teams that Sultana sees as comprising the voting base of her newly based get together.

One can effectively think about the response of working-class voters within the northern “Purple Wall” seats at being advised that they need to vote for the abolition of the monarchy, open borders and the strengthening of transgender rights.

In her speech, Sultana foreshadowed forming a up to date “rainbow coalition” of varied teams inside British society – together with the working class, pensioners, the disabled, migrants, and transgender and homosexual individuals.

These disparate teams, nevertheless, don’t comprise a unified voting block. Neither is it doable to remodel such teams right into a revolutionary political drive – as different politicians, most notably Martin Luther King close to the top of his life, Saul Alinsky and Jesse Jackson, have discovered to their utter and full dismay.

Underlying the Your Get together’s total political challenge is an assumption that the working class constitutes a revolutionary political agent. That assumption – central to Marx’s philosophy however lengthy since disproved by historical past – is demonstrably false, and no clever politician may probably consider in any other case.

Sultana and Corbyn could be effectively suggested to learn Marx’s critique of these he termed “utopian socialists” – by which he factors out that effectively entrenched ruling lessons by no means hand over their dominance because of fanciful revolutionary schemes, and that what he termed the “lumpen proletariat” would, given the chance, at all times aspect with the forces of response, relatively than the forces of revolution.

Different facets of Sultana’s program additionally spotlight her important irrationality.

How can anybody consider that the state of Israel is prone to be abolished and changed by a unified Palestinian state? But when Corbyn demurred to such nonsense on the convention, he was denounced by Sultana’s supporters for “being delicate on Zionism.” This will need to have come as a shock to Corbyn – who has been a constant critic of Israel for many years, and who was expelled from the Labour get together for his alleged anti-Semitism.

When Michael Foot misplaced the 1983 election to Margaret Thatcher, his socialist program – one which Corbyn endorsed – was described by Foot’s critics as “the longest political suicide observe in British political historical past.” In comparison with Sultana’s political program, Foot’s seems to be a mannequin of rationality and customary sense.

The construction that Sultana has imposed on the get together can also be is irretrievably utopian, unworkable and sure to render the get together (ought to it lengthy survive the Liverpool convention) fully ineffective.

How are you going to have a contemporary political get together that doesn’t have a frontrunner – and certainly no political get together will be successfully ruled by a committee. The absurd get together identify – Your Get together – speaks for itself.

All of those issues are merely a mirrored image of the truth that Corbynite socialism and progressive leftism are now not viable political ideologies within the West.

Progressive leftism is, in fact, a extra irrational, but additionally a extra widespread ideology at current, which explains why Sultana so simply prevailed over Corbyn on the current convention.

It additionally explains why Corbyn sought Sultana’s help in establishing Your Get together within the first place – even he knew {that a} recycled model of Michael Foot’s socialist agenda couldn’t function a viable political program in modern Britain.

Even so, Corbyn should certainly be regretting tying himself to the cartwheels of Sultana’s frankly irrational and absurd political program.

Corbyn and Sultana are like two passengers on a sinking ship which have fallen overboard. They clutch at one another in sheer desperation, however every is so targeted on saving themselves that they drag one another all the way down to their collective dying. They each refuse to just accept that the present political trajectory within the West rests with mainstream social democratic events dedicated to sustaining the globalist financial and ideological established order and, alternatively, the quickly rising right-wing populist events that are actually, having not too long ago supplanted conventional conservative events, their primary political opponents.

If a 3rd various is to emerge inside this framework, it will probably solely be one which rejects each Corbynite socialism and Sultana’s irrational progressive leftist extremism.

On the current Your Get together convention in Liverpool, each of those ideologies revealed themselves to be nothing greater than intertwined absurdities, and it’s now time for them to be consigned to the dustbin of historical past.