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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Replying to @ChaseMadar
@ChMadar according to Very Serious People....yes.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @robgreeneII
@robgreeneII@ChMadar FWIW, I think it's the sympathetic noises towards places like Venezuela that makes VSPs put him with the hard left1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @PatrickIber
@PatrickIber@robgreeneII Yeah, that's probably right. As if British policy towards VZ or Latin America in general were remotely important!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @ChaseMadar
@ChMadar@robgreeneII I agree. He may be naive about Venezuela but there would be about zero consequences to that were he elected1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @PatrickIber
@PatrickIber@ChMadar@robgreeneII also re-nationalization though, right? that's fairly authentically left, as positions go.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @jordansegall
@jordansegall@PatrickIber@robgreeneII Sure! But a nationalized railroad system is hardly a hard-left policy, cf Japan, Germany, Italy etc1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @ChaseMadar
@ChMadar@PatrickIber@robgreeneII no, of course--I just mean given the particular politics of post-Thatcherite britain ...2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@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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