Enabling reforms intended to weaken unions inadvertently empowered insurgent left leadership

Evidence

Corbyn, by contrast, accomplished what had seemed impossible: in September 2015, he was elected leader of the Labour Party with 60 percent of the vote. Ironically, he benefited from a change to the party statutes introduced by his predecessor Ed Miliband, a relevant fact for what it reveals about the fate of mass parties and the deinstitutionalization of political participation. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 200

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reformists seeking to prevent revolution inadvertently provoked further worker radicalism — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 334; Partial concessions from negotiated protest deals split reformist from radical left factions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 145