'Tony Blair represented socialism in the real world of the 21st century'.
Call me a radical, but I prefer my socialism to not involve massacring Arabs for oil, nor the selling off of our country, including the NHS, to private corporations, to be exploited for profit.
Calling Tony Blair a socialist is similarly as absurd as calling the Nazis socialist. Those who say this are completely disconnected from reality, in a white/western-centric bubble of propaganda, oblivious to what socialism actually is, and oblivious to how despised their brand of politics is, by its victims at home and (especially) around the world!
We're in a populist moment. There is justified hatred of the establishment, following the wars, the financial crash, the class-war of austerity. Labour - despite constant attacks from the right and the centre - were briefly able to harness that sentiment, in 2017, but then were perceived as reneging on it, by backing a second referendum and by being too lenient to the centrists, (why the hell did John McDonnell do a cosy interview with Alastair Campbell just before the election?!).
So the fake populists of the right won.
Now is not the time to once again make our politics a choice between two sociopathic parties that serve the interests of the few. But it looks like that is where we are headed. Which means a bleak future for all.
Join Labour now and vote Rebecca Long-Bailey and Richard Burgon, for some hope of preventing that.
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