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Are New Labour Maoists?

Maoism supports the concept of "continual revolution". It seems that New Labour prefer instability to stability and see "continual reform" as a good mechanism for quality services.

Sadly they have turned up the heat of continual change on the health service. This is causing problems all over the country.

Comments

Joe Otten said…
There is a cynical judgement at work - that how much a party appears to care about something depends on how much it talks about it.

And to have something to talk about, there must be 'reform' - perpetual revolution.

And because Labour must have an ideological battle within itself over any kind of reform, it has little energy left ever to scrutinise the details.

"We must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it."
Bob Piper said…
Trotsky, John... and permanent revolution.
John Hemming said…
Bob - Mao ... continual. (or whatever the Chinese word is).

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