Andrew Murray (4) (1958–)
Auteur de The fall and rise of the British left
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Andrew Murray, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Andrew Murray is Communications Officer for the train driver's union ASLEF.
Crédit image: Linda Nylind/The Guardian
Œuvres de Andrew Murray
The T and G Story: A History of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-2007 (2008) 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Drummond-Murray, Andrew Philip
- Date de naissance
- 1958-07-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- UK
- Professions
- journalist
- Organisations
- Stop the War Coalition
Communist Party of Britain
Labour Party
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 51
- Popularité
- #311,767
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 1,205
- Langues
- 16
More concerning is Murray's repeated insistence that the left can't just re-run the twentieth century politics and policies, while immediately after talking about how the only way the left can win is by strengthening trade unions and massaging class consciousness (e.g., people who are no richer than Murray but oppose his politics are 'class-collaborationists,' while those who are richer than him and oppose his politics are 'bosses' and 'elites'). The rhetoric, in other words, is appalling.
More concerning still is that that rhetoric gets in the way of thinking. Murray's world is entirely dualistic; there's us, on one side, and the bosses/elites/imperialists/racists/... on the other. Of course, this is not meant to be a nuanced history; it is designed to prop up a party and stand against the (utterly repulsive) Murdoch Empire narrative. So, perhaps this us vs them approach is essential for electoral politics? I would have thought demonizing anyone who doesn't entirely agree with you is a bad way to gain majorities in a democratic system, even one as fatuous and decayed as the 'British.'
But, as I said, I'm not the audience here. I put it to you, fair reader, that if you're reading this in 2020 or later, and you find unironic references to Lenin's wisdom painful, then you probably aren't the audience, either.
*: My parents were both English, migrated to Australia.… (plus d'informations)