Do As I Did Not As I Say: Blair, New Labour and Party Traditions
Do As I Did Not As I Say: Blair, New Labour and Party Traditions
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照我没说的做：布莱尔、新工党和政党传统
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10.1111/1467-923x.12791
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2019
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PIKE K
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对科尔宾主义的内部批评者来说，它是一个“硬左派”的时代错误。新工党，对于它的批评者来说，基本上是撒切尔主义。我们认为，这些Meta叙事，内部身份的关键，是有缺陷的。他们出于政治实力的原因而分裂该党，但代价是更广泛的解释和更长期的凝聚力。通过对“早期”新工党的分析，我们发现布莱尔的计划是如何结束的，而不是如何开始的，因此不是整个故事。新工党反对党现在被遗忘的历史有着重要的教训，包括那些试图保持“现代化”火焰的人--在很大程度上是不成功的。如果现代主义者要赢得更多的皈依者，他们就必须学会做布莱尔和新工党在反对党时代所做的，而不是布莱尔今天所说的。借鉴工党“精神”的概念，我们从工党的过去提供了五个教训。
Corbynism, to its internal critics, is a ‘hard left’ anachronism. New Labour, to its detractors, was basically Thatcherism. We argue that these meta narratives, critical to internal identity, are flawed. They are pulling the party apart for reasons of political strength and at the expense both of broader interpretation and longer‐term cohesion. Through an analysis of ‘early’ New Labour, we show that how Blair’s project ended is not how it began, and therefore isn’t the whole story. The now half‐forgotten history of New Labour in opposition holds important lessons, including for those trying—for the most part unsuccessfully—to keep the ‘modernising’ flame alive. If the modernisers are to win more converts to their cause they must learn to do what Blair and New Labour did in opposition and not what Blair says today. Drawing on the concept of Labour’s ‘ethos’, we offer five lessons from the party’s past.