The End of Parliamentary Socialism: Transforming the Labour Party from Benn to Blair to Corbyn
Colin Leys,Leo Panitch,David Coates
The End of Parliamentary Socialism: Transforming the Labour Party from Benn to Blair to Corbyn
Colin Leys,Leo Panitch,David Coates
This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair’s modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism. In blaming the Labour left, rather than the social-democratic right for the party’s years in the electoral wilderness, the modernizers rejected the creativity and energy which the party’s New Left had mobilized, and without which their own professed aim of democratic renewal was unlikely to be realized. In this new edition, the authors, in collaboration with David Coates, review the debate in light of the Blair government’s first three years in office.
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