Corbyn is anti-austerity, doesn't love Israeli ethnic cleansing, thinks Iraq War was awful. These are supposed to be "hard left" positions?
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@ChMadar@robgreeneII I agree. He may be naive about Venezuela but there would be about zero consequences to that were he elected -
@PatrickIber@ChMadar@robgreeneII also re-nationalization though, right? that's fairly authentically left, as positions go. -
@jordansegall@PatrickIber@robgreeneII Sure! But a nationalized railroad system is hardly a hard-left policy, cf Japan, Germany, Italy etc -
@ChMadar@PatrickIber@robgreeneII no, of course--I just mean given the particular politics of post-Thatcherite britain ... -
@jordansegall@PatrickIber@robgreeneII Yes, agreed. I need to read Tariq Ali's new book "the radical center", all about this rightwrd shift
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