Brian Brivati addresses Martin Kettle’s centre-Left critique by clarifying the intention of the manifesto.
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A disparate set of left-wing thinkers meeting in a London pub has reopened an essential debate on the nature of democracy
To be on the left is to be both temperamentally inclined to dissent and to be passionate about your own utopia, which can never be achieved. Condemned to disappointment, you rage at the world, your party and your leader.
Relative peace comes when the right is in power and the left temporarily sinks its differences before the greater enemy. But to survive in office, the left leader must keep utopian factionalism at bay and that means making your followers understand hard realities and tough trade-offs and selling them the ones you make yourself.
Norman Geras answers two criticisms by modern historian Marc Mulholland.
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This is the Website of a new democratic progressive alliance.
You can read the Euston Manifesto here.
Please link to: https://www.eustonmanifesto.org/