As the voting starts in the Labour Party leadership election, it is even more important to emphasise the extent of the socialist alternative that he represents, and could start to implement, when elected as Prime Minister.
It is more than just being able to answer the question ‘what does Corbyn represent?’ It is about seeing that his position comes embedded in a view that our society and economy can work for us all and not just the rich: that people and the survival of the planet are central, not profit for the few.
Corbyn’s manifesto, his speeches since being elected and his performance at the hustings are a testament to this and make Owen Smith’s 20 points and statements sound like rhetorical sound bites that they are.
The Labour election results over the last 12 months show that this radical vision is not unpopular and that level of support provides the basis of winning over more of the population. Don’t forget the working class - those of us who can only exist only by our ability to sell our labour - is a growing and increasingly exploited majority of our society in the UK and internationally.
As Shelley so graphically put it:
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many - they are few."
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many - they are few."
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