tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1532254976341123883.post7118334769353498544..comments2024-02-22T12:55:00.015+00:00Comments on Tom London: GE 2017: Socialism - Corbyn, Attlee, Sanders, Orwell, Paine and LoachTom Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758489868048216894noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1532254976341123883.post-77623591533506319452017-04-27T15:12:53.415+01:002017-04-27T15:12:53.415+01:00Thanks Stephen. I think there is more than one rea...Thanks Stephen. I think there is more than one reason to back Corbyn! Those tweets, I imagine, were seeking to try to persuade the anti-Corbyn left on the basis that we are where we are. Tom Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758489868048216894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1532254976341123883.post-44488405066383806692017-04-27T10:06:31.957+01:002017-04-27T10:06:31.957+01:00A nicely written passionate piece up to your usual...A nicely written passionate piece up to your usual high standards. We will have to agree to disagree about Corbyn, however, and many of your interventions on Twitter reveal a quite different and far less principled endorsement: he must be backed because he is the best chance of defeating the Tories. This is a point of view many others dispute, but whether or not they dispute it, it is quite different from what you set out here. Furthermore, it is (depending on your point of view) either a strength or a weakness of Corbyn that he does not embody this attitude himself. He is not a man himself to back a Labour politician on a calculation of his party's electoral success. Furthermore, many of the early pioneers of the Labour party had as their primary objective to give the working classes a voice in Parliament. Corbyn seems to have a baffling unwillingness to use it. It's almost as if he were exploiting “the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed”.Stephen Sennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626984605433782027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1532254976341123883.post-79779606718447979942017-04-27T08:06:53.440+01:002017-04-27T08:06:53.440+01:00Hi M
Please reread the piece. It does not do what ...Hi M<br />Please reread the piece. It does not do what you suggest at all.<br />What I am saying here is, if you like, "Socialism is not a dirty word". <br />I link Corbyn with the others as all being Socialists. Not as all being on the same pedestal.<br />Tom LondonTom Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758489868048216894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1532254976341123883.post-29278229846830638862017-04-24T14:53:45.049+01:002017-04-24T14:53:45.049+01:00Dear Tom,
We would debate for a lifetime about how...Dear Tom,<br />We would debate for a lifetime about how to make society fairer and although I absolutely respect your views and your ability to articulate them, please don't put Corbyn on a pedestal with Attlee, Dickens, Orwell, Paine and Loach: he really doesn't deserve it and neither do they. MA friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03709272841697375901noreply@blogger.com