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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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SocietyNow |
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SocietyNow.
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Introduction : Taking Corbynism Seriously -- Explaining 2017 : The Rise and Fall of Austerity Populism -- The Preconditions of Corbynism : On Two-campism -- On the Right Side of History : The Moral Mythology of Corbynism -- Taking Back Control : Corbynism in One Country -- ̀Things Can and they Will Change' : Class, Postcapitalism and Left Populism -- The Rigged System : Corbynism and Conspiracy Theory -- Conclusion : a Politics of Pessimism |
| Summary |
10pm, 8th June 2017: exit polls at the British General Election show Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party denying the Conservative Party what was widely expected to be a guaranteed increased majority. Crowned Labour leader two years earlier, the British political class were convinced of one thing: Corbyn was unelectable. Condescension stood in for a serious understanding of the ideas that made up the Corbyn worldview. But Corbynism's success might have been less surprising were its political content subject to informed scrutiny. Corbynism: A Critical Approach argues that, on closer inspection, Corbynism rests on a way of seeing the world that resonates with broader contemporary political and economic shifts. This resonance confounds claims over electability. In this fascinating book, Matt Bolton and Frederick Harry Pitts explain the Corbyn worldview. Corbyn's platform of economic protectionism at home twinned with problematic affinities abroad rests on a conspiracist understanding of capitalism as a ̀rigged system' that chimes with, rather than challenges, the populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit. Corbyn's mythical image as a paragon of moral exceptionalism underpinned his ascendancy, promoting a form of anti-politics that assesses ideas not by their content or consequences but the identity of those expressing them. The sectarianism and antisemitism associated with elements of the Corbyn movement stem from a truncated critique of capitalism central to Corbynism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Corbyn, Jeremy.
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Corbyn, Jeremy fast |
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Labour Party (Great Britain)
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Labour Party (Great Britain) fast |
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Capitalism.
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Socialism.
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Political science.
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Politics & government.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Capitalism
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Political science
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Politics and government
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Socialism
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Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
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Europe
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pitts, Frederick Harry, author
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| ISBN |
9781787543690 |
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1787543692 |
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