The Labour Party was seen as a mass prize to be transformed from within

Evidence

One was the presence of the Labour Party. The overwhelming fact of the Labour Party, as a mass social democratic party, suggested that if only one could build a new alliance within the Labour Party, there already was a mass movement of the Left, which could be penetrated by New Left ideas. The Labour Party was like a prize waiting to be won. If only that transformation, from an Old Left to a New Left Party, could be brought about. Is all this beginning to have a familiar ring? It is the dilemma of the Left in Britain, writ large. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 785

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does Hall’s 1990s framing of the Labour Party dilemma carry into later left critiques of New Labour’s racialized immigration politics?
• XREF: connects to: Labour substituted a people-to-government articulation for the class-to-party link — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1106; Electoral success made party activists complacent about further transformation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 512; Recruitment openness and internal pluralism determined which communist elites could later transform their parties. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 367 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Labour substituted a people-to-government articulation for the class-to-party link — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1106; Electoral success made party activists complacent about further transformation — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 512; Recruitment openness and internal pluralism determined which communist elites could later transform their parties. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 367 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Electoral success made party activists complacent about further transformation #complicates (0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 512