Michael Crick On Why Blair-Rights Like Him Should Be Worried About Blue Labour

Bourgeois-democracy is a sham.  Its not only that the electoral system amounts to ballot rigging, in the shape of the first past the post-system, or the many other inconsistencies, the role of money and connections, the persistence of unelected institutions such as the House of Lords and Monarchy, and so on.  It is a sham, because if ever workers were to overcome all of these obstacles, and, get a socialist government elected, that acted in their interests, not only would the permanent state obstruct it, but in the end, it would simply remove it, if needed, in a coup, as happened to Allende, in Chile, in 1973.

Long-time political journalist, Michael Crick, is not a revolutionary, and so, undoubtedly would not go along with that analysis.  he describes himself, as a Labour right-winger, by which he means a Blair-Right.  Unfortunately, as I have set out over several years, now, Blue Labour is much further to the Right than Blair's new Labour.  It is something qualitatively different, more akin to a reactionary, petty-bourgeois, populist party of the type seen before in history that makes a sharp transition into the realm of Bonapartism and fascism.  Where, Blair's New Labour was still a conservative social-democratic party, still a bourgeois workers party, geared to the interests of the ruling class, and large scale capital, Starmer's Blue labour is a reactionary, petty-bourgeois nationalist and sovereigntist party, not a bourgeois workers' party, but a reactionary petty-bourgeois workers' party.

The dialectic means that once the Far Right that, now, dominates Blue Labour, has used the Blair-Rights and other soft lefts, as well as the acquiescence of the useless Campaign Group, to purge the Left, it will, inevitably be led to turn its attention also to the Blair-Rights, and Centre, who will face a similar treatment, because the class interests represented by Blairism, the interests of the ruling class and of large-scale capital (most epitomised in relation to the EU) are antagonistic to the interests of the reactionary, nationalist petty-bourgeoisie upon which Blue Labour rests, and around which it has created its electoral coalition.

In this interview, however, despite not being a revolutionary, Crick seems to have an inkling of this.  He rails against the Bonapartism, and bureaucratism and authoritarianism, now, apparent in Blue Labour, as manifest in the selection scandals of last week, and purging of the Left.  I'm a Blairite he proclaims, but I will not be voting Labour in this election.