In an interview with Jacobin, Jeremy Corbyn talks about the need to rebuild the trade unions, internationalism, and why socialists can’t afford to be on the defensive.
Corbyn is more focused on the effect he can have on people, I think he sees a picture in which the goals are to move the people towards class conflict and have them develop into a national desire for socialism rather than pushing it through with only a small minority of people being truly ideologically motivated towards it. I still think the plan to force companies to give shares to their employees was a good one and would have required elected representatives for workers forcing elements of workplace democracy and forcing elements of class conflict internally in companies across the county as workers would then have a material interest in what decisions the bosses are making. It's also a measure that can't be easily undone and attempting to do so would create a national shitstorm.
He wanted to change the conditions to change the people. I do see value in that.
Anyway we're going to do trade unionism and then move to an anti-war anti-imperialist position I guess? I'm worried that beating the drum of ww3 will start to take national priority for people.
Corbyn is more focused on the effect he can have on people, I think he sees a picture in which the goals are to move the people towards class conflict and have them develop into a national desire for socialism rather than pushing it through with only a small minority of people being truly ideologically motivated towards it. I still think the plan to force companies to give shares to their employees was a good one and would have required elected representatives for workers forcing elements of workplace democracy and forcing elements of class conflict internally in companies across the county as workers would then have a material interest in what decisions the bosses are making. It's also a measure that can't be easily undone and attempting to do so would create a national shitstorm.
He wanted to change the conditions to change the people. I do see value in that.
Anyway we're going to do trade unionism and then move to an anti-war anti-imperialist position I guess? I'm worried that beating the drum of ww3 will start to take national priority for people.