Corbynism

by Matt Bolton, Frederick Harry Pitts

Overview

From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised - but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. From a left perspective, this book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. Bypassing arguments over electability undermined by the 2017 election, Corbynism: A Critical Approach decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts. Corbyn's platform of protectionism at home and isolationism abroad, it contends, chimes with conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a 'rigged system' common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161825471
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing
Publication date:	09/24/2018
Series:	SocietyNow
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Matt Bolton is a postgraduate researcher in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Frederick Harry Pitts is Lecturer in Management at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx.

Editorial Reviews

You may not agree with every argument, but Bolton and Pitts' book is a much needed, well researched and wide-ranging interrogation of Corbynism. Drawing on a distinctive left perspective, it cuts through the fog of uncritical adulation and unthinking hostility to shine a light on the origins and dynamics of this often misunderstood part of modern British politics.

University of Stirling, UK - Paul Thompson

Using Marxist critical theory, this timely and courageous book analyses Corbyn's left populism as significantly diverging from the key traditions of the class struggle and democratic left.

Goldsmiths, University of London, UK - David Hirsh