The Left is becoming increasingly irrelevant and distant from the lives of ordinary people. Professor Simon Winlow, author The Death of the Left, interview George Galloway 2023
The Corbyn Project was dominated by liberal middle-class activists. ibid.
A very strange corruption of traditional British trade unionism. ibid.
Politics has become obsessed with cultural issues. ibid.
When I was young the Left had a palpable presence in the community … As I aged all of that stuff just vanished and the Left just disappeared and those connections, the familial connections, the institutions of the Left, withered and died … Maybe it’s not coming back. Professor Simon Winlow, co-author The Dead Left, interview with Steve Hall, Youtube 1.04.20, 2023
It no longer offers a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. It no longer promises to boost living standards … no longer promises to address a whole range of real-world problems that concern working-class people. ibid.
28th February 1973: As far as I’m concerned we live in a liberal democracy; as far as you and Claire are concerned we live in a police state. Play for Today: Commitments, trendy flatmates’ talk, BBC 1982
If I don’t get out of this party I’ll go mad. ibid.
Of course it’s important to know the theory but we’ve got to build a leadership. ibid.
Bleeding Zionists, they’ll kill us all before they’re finished. ibid. activist
Noam Chomsky is a towering figure in the study of modern linguistics, and equally he has had an effect in shaping the political discourse. The Corbett Report online, podcast #285 ‘Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper’, Youtube 2013
He is quite a deep thinker on a lot of things, which makes his reticence in approaching certain topics even more interesting. ibid.
Points of disagreement: Federal Reserve … ‘debt is not a serious problem.’ ibid.
He has long expressed bass bafflement at the idea that JFK was assassinated as part of any conspiracy. ibid.
9/11: ‘They’ve managed to collect a very small scattering of architects and one or two people who are supposed to be scientists …’ ibid.
9/11: ‘The belief that it could have been done has such low credibility … Who cares?’ ibid.