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Bolton Matt <active 2018, > |
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Titolo |
Corbynism : a critical approach / / Matt Bolton (University of Roehampton, UK), and Frederick Harry Pitts (University of Bristol, UK) |
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Bingley, UK : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018 |
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9781787543713 |
1787543714 |
9781787543690 |
1787543692 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Political Science, World - European |
Politics & government |
Europe, Western History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Taking Corbynism Seriously -- Explaining 2017 : The Rise and Fall of Austerity Populism -- The Preconditions of Corbynism : On Two-campism -- On the Right Side of History : The Moral Mythology of Corbynism -- Taking Back Control : Corbynism in One Country -- `Things Can and they Will Change' : Class, Postcapitalism and Left Populism -- The Rigged System : Corbynism and Conspiracy Theory -- Conclusion : a Politics of Pessimism. |
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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. Corbyns platform of protectionism at home and isolationism abroad, it contends, chimes with conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a rigged |
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system common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit. |
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