Corbynism: A Critical Approach (SocietyNow)

by Frederick Harry Pitts (Author), Matt Bolton (Author)

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2018
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From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised - but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. From a left perspective, this book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. Bypassing arguments over electability undermined by the 2017 election, Corbynism: A Critical Approach decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts. Corbyn's platform of protectionism at home and isolationism abroad, it contends, chimes with conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a `rigged system' common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit.

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From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised - but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. From a left perspective, this book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. Bypassing arguments over electability undermined by the 2017 election, Corbynism: A Critical Approach decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts. Corbyn's platform of protectionism at home and isolationism abroad, it contends, chimes with conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a `rigged system' common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: 1
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 16 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 1787543722
ISBN 13: 9781787543720
Book Overview: SocietyNow

Media Reviews

Using Marxist critical theory, this book analyses Corbyn's left populism as significantly diverging from key traditions of class struggle and the democratic left. -- David Hirsh
You may not agree with every argument, but Bolton and Pitts' book is a much needed, well researched and wide-ranging interrogation of Corbynism. Drawing on a distinctive left perspective, it cuts through the fog of uncritical adulation and unthinking hostility to shine a light on the origins and dynamics of this often misunderstood part of modern British politics. -- Paul Thompson

Author Bio

Matt Bolton is a postgraduate researcher in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Frederick Harry Pitts is Lecturer in Management at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx.