I’ve long argued that the Democratic Party needs to use its time in the wilderness to remake itself so it can pursue and deliver real benefits for poor and working class voters and be seen to do so in its campaigns. This remaking necessarily requires a period of disunity and chaos within the Democratic Party–central […]
Don’t Fear Trump–Fear the Next Republican President
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If Deng Xiaoping could Capture China’s Communist Party, You Can Capture the Democratic Party
There is a part of the left which believes the Democratic Party is beyond hope. They think it’s too corrupt, too beholden to rich people and corporations, and that it’s a waste of time and energy to try to change it. Even in articles which express support for running progressive and democratic socialist candidates on […]
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Australia’s Poor Wage Growth is Destroying its Prime Ministers
Australia has swapped Prime Ministers again–this time the Liberal Party replaced Malcolm Turnbull with Scott Morrison. Morrison will be Australia’s sixth Prime Minister in the last then years. This level of turnover at the top is remarkable. The UK has only had three Prime Ministers during the same period. Canada has only had two. Why […]
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Why Bernie Sanders Matters More Than People Think
Every time I find a way to say that there is no one like Bernie Sanders, there are people who don’t believe me. Aren’t there other candidates who support the same policies he supports now? Some of them are younger. Some of them aren’t old white guys. Why can’t it be one of them, why […]
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How Changing Understandings of Democracy Create New Possibilities for the Left
Yesterday, I gave a short talk for the Platypus Society at Goldsmiths‘ in London about interactions between democracy and leftism. The following post is a transcript of that talk. There are, I think, three different strategies for advancing left-wing politics: The traditional revolutionary approach, in which the left organises in preparation for an acute legitimacy […]
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