It is worth recalling that #tradeunions and #socialistsocieties set up the #labourparty so as to exercise countervailing power within the political system. There was a real risk during the #blair years that it would be captured by those very corporate lobbies and their useful idiots - set out at the time by #colincrouch who described it as 'post democracy'. I had thought that danger had gone but that may be premature in the light of stories about #morganmcsweeny and #waheedalli !
That is a really interesting idea. Another reason why the #berlusconi model warned about by #colincrouch nearly a quarter of a century as 'post-democracy' has not taken off in the #uk ?
Fertig mit 2024/4.
Colin Crouch: Postdemokratie revisited (Post-democracy after the Crises).
Lest das. Brilliante Analyse der Postdemokratie, der negativen Einflüsse des unseligen Neoliberalismus und des nostalgischen Pessimismus, die die Neue Rechte und die faschistische Politik stärken.
Danke an die Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung für die Lizenzausgabe dieses wichtigen Werks.
Ich habe begonnen, Dinge zu unterstreichen. Außerdem musste ich an einer Stelle lachen. Das war unerwartet, aber schön 🤩