Labour’s trajectory is driven by the strength of outside-parliament movements
Evidence
It’s worth remembering at this point that the failures of the Labour Party, its succumbing to capitalist realism, is not just the consequences of the internal logic of the party. It was extra-Parliamentary forces that gave rise to the Labour Party in the first place; it was the defeat of those forces that drove the Labour Party into its craven placating of business in the New Labour era. If Labour is to be anything more than a zombie party once again, it will be new forms of extra-parliamentary organisation that revivify it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1469
Categorization
- XREF: Builds on the ch on Red Wedge failure and the defeat of extra-parliamentary left forces; joins the argument about subaltern organisation needing to renew institutions. — connects to: Progressive movements can push political figures leftward in the present; Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 620; Extra-parliamentary movements create and could revive Labour, not internal party logic — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1469
- SEED: Thesis angle: ‘Zombie party’ thesis — how parties revive only through exterior social movements (from Chartism and Labour’s founding to Corbynism).
Broader Connections
- Progressive movements can push political figures leftward in the present
#exemplifies(0.85) - Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination
#corroborates(0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620