| Topic: | Re:The False Ecomony - an activist guide to fighting the cuts... | |
| Posted by: | Stewart Dean | |
| Date/Time: | 15/12/10 08:27:00 |
| "and was so happy to see a room full of anarchists, swp, labour, tuc etc...all together" here in lies the problem. All of the folks you listed here I consider the old left. In an ideal world there would be no unions. What is needed is a new left; the ones I am lucky enough to talk about with some of the new generation I've met (as in I'm old enough to be their dad). There is a big need for a new left to form that is not labour, the unions, the anarchists and their outdated ideas or those wedded to the idea of class struggle and the fight for the workers against the evil mill owners. General strikes are no a good way to achive the ends, we need something better, much better. What we have instead is a growing tide of bright media savy people who are working to turn this into a mainstream thing. What is being talked about is a big society in a way that the conservatives will hate, one where personal interests do not dwarf out the needs of society. My view is that left lost their place at the table and in the labour party (which stopped being a left wing party over ten years ago) because it did not modernise and find a way to get the ideal of socialism to work in a more complex cultural mix (and I'm not really talking about that in terms of ethnic origins but in terms of less clear devides between class, for example). |