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John sarcasm here is alas very justified. This was a fairly crazy article. I thought for example you had to have a revolution before you had a counter revolution? Nevertheless Ed Milliband' election does represent something of a feint to the Left on the behalf of the union bureaucracy and as such it must be in response to a feeling that their interests as a caste have not been well served by New Labour. I am prepared to take on good faith the notion that there was widespread working class dissatisfaction which also played a role. What now? Well Ed Milliband has already been threatened by the Labour Right with a split. He will in all likelihood respond to that by moving to the Right. Only a genuine radicalisation of the working class will move the Labour Party to the Left. And from here I can see no sign of that. I am also inclined to think that the Milliband brothers have pulled off quite a double act. Whatever happens in this "Left" versus Right struggle within the Labour Party, the Milliband family will do well. All very Godfather -ish. There have been posts on the list about how could a genuine Marxist intellectual giant give birth to such such egregious opportunists. like Ed and David. I have posted before how a friend who knew them from childhood told me that the brothers were motivated by a conviction that their father had achieved nothing. I don't know the family at all and never will, but life has taught me that such a perception of their father would have to have been filtered through someone else -(the mother?) Or is that just me blaming the woman again? In any case it is the suffering working class of Great Britain that has my interest and sympathy, while the smarmy brothers have only my contempt. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
