Congratulations, Chris!
Quite so! But not all socialists paid attention to that memo!
Agreed entirely. They have one parliamentary term now to make real change a reality. No chance of repeating that result without concrete substantive achievements on which to build a case to the electorate next time.
I hope Labour get the message that they need to win the next election by tackling some of the manifold problems of a broken Britain- and paying for that means taxation, immigration, alignment with the EU, and public spending- namely all of the things they say they won’t do …
Yeah, and we wouldn’t disagree with that. Our primary cases there were those we know best — the US, UK and EU.
Thanks, Nikhil. Joe and I certainly took ourselves to be in close agreement with Táíwò’s essay; we took ourselves to be exploring some issues prompted by reading his piece. It’s an important set of issues for sure.
Think I agree with this response from @martinoneill.bsky.socialwww.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
We must build a strategy to win state power.
@joecguinan.bsky.social@martinoneill.bsky.social observe that “decarbonization ultimately requires a sustained and deliberate act of capital destruction on a scale about twice that of the end of slavery”—so there is simply no substitute for winning state power:
We must build a strategy to win state power.
Both in theory and in practice!
No 20, Bryan Magee, Men of Ideas, paired with a TV series of interviews with philosophers, many now up on YouTube. Said to be the first philosophy best-seller in the UK since, of all things, Stuart Hampshire’s paperback on Spinoza. Contributed to rising popularity of Philosophy as degree subjec
