Statism without popular mobilization is intrinsic to Labour’s Fabian heritage
Evidence
While there is evidence to suggest a degree of working-class mistrust of the state in its everyday forms, the British labour movement had tended to insert both its industrial and political activities within the existing national political structure; in Gramscian terms it lacked a sufficiently hegemonic perspective to challenge the central institutions of state power. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1215 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
It is often noted that Thatcher herself regarded Tony Blair’s New Labour government as her finest achievement, as it operated within the parameters of the political form of neoliberalism that she had instituted. New Labour simply elaborated the same vision of modernization initiated by Thatcher eighteen years earlier (though with some slight softening up on the ideological front). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 974 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- New Labour conceded the impossibility of leftist hegemony rather than attempting it (similarity 0.88)
- Labour’s statism has always avoided popular democratic mobilization (similarity 0.85)
- British labour lacked a hegemonic challenge to state power (similarity 0.84)
- Social democracy made the state police the working class it claimed to represent. (similarity 0.81)
- British labour integrated into state structures without a hegemonic challenge (similarity 0.81)
- The British labour movement embedded itself within the state rather than challenging it hegemonically (similarity 0.81)
- Labour’s statist strategy forced it to police its own working-class base (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-statism now undermines defence of public institutions like the NHS (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Labour’s statist strategy forced it to police its own working-class base
#expands(0.80) - British labour lacked a hegemonic challenge to state power
#corroborates(0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1215 - New Labour operated within Thatcher’s neoliberal parameters.
#expands(0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 974