Corbynism without Corbyn?
The UK Labour Party after the electoral defeat of December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i199.1879Keywords:
Corbyn, Corbynism, Social democracy, BrexitAbstract
The electoral defeat of the UK Labour Party prompts questions on whether the political conjuncture has changed again after first successes of Corbynism. Corbynism is analysed as a (contradictory) attempt to address the crisis of British state and society via a strategy of reorganising British class relations. It is less a political position that was rejected in the election but rather a political movement that was capable of uniting parts of the British left, regrouping them around the Labour Party and establishing the left as a relevant political factor. Despite the demoralisation that the election result has produced and despite the left's weakness in the party's recent leadership election, it remains such a factor with political potential.
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