Usually find Seymour's analysis useful and he's written some very good stuff on left antisemitism, but his latest blog on this is terrible.
What is the better option/opposition then?
On twitter at least he has a bit of an obsession with what looks 'strong' or looks 'weak', without even reflecting on who is doing the looking and which audiences matter.
'Move on' has been a Brexit fraud slogan so turn it in.
Nonsense
TLDR silly old man
What are the long term goals of a left wing movement in this country? Whatever they are, I don't think Corbyn has much to do with them any more. He was a pin that held together a certain coalition of people for a time. He's not important in himself. The fact that he's being attacked by the Labour right is part of a significant trend its true, but you've got to pick your battles. Making the success of the Labour left dependent on defending Corbyn - who has shown repeatedly that he cannot reflect on anti-semitism very well, or position himself to look good even when his lifelong mission is at stake - is setting yourself up to fail. Pick some battles you can win.
He'll be a drop in the golden shower
Brainaddict think we live in a dictatorship so you can despise his opinion on matters political safe in the knowledge he's posting from a position of abject stupidity
Mate, I've spent substantial portions of the last few years campaigning for a Corbyn government. I've knocked on hundreds of doors, I've attended meeting, rallies and conferences, I've raised thousands of pounds for campaign funds. I've even stood for election.
Is it being ignored and excused? I dont see that. I saw a genuine and proportional attempt to deal with it actively subverted by Labour HQ, the media and malicious actors
Surely it's better to pretend that Labour has been infiltrated on a massive scale by anti-semites, has become institutionally antisemitic and racist in general, was led by a Jew-baiter and that anyone who says different is either racist themselves, insensitive, ignorant or covering things up. Then let's purge the party of as many left wingers as we can, whilst retaining a few loyalists so that we can still be a broad church. Oh, and then let's ignore any Jewish Labour voices who dissent as well. Job done.
Y'see, this is bullshit. No-one here is asking for anything like this.
No. No one here is. But the Labour right have always been up for this.
A proper critique of Corbyn, Corbynism, left Labourism, parliamentarism as a way of achieving socialism in any meaningful sense, and finally, looking at the merits of non-reformist anti-parliamentary and pro-revolutionary alternatives?
I think if the right wing media cared about anti-semitism, it would be worth debating it with them. If the right of the labour party cared about anti-semitism, it would be worth arguing definitions with them. They don't. They pulled the classic political trick on you: accused you of fucking a pig. Now you feel you have to go around denying it, saying 'I didn't fuck a pig', which leads people to say why is there mud on your flies (look at this minor instance of actual anti-semitism). And then you think you should explain how the mud got there, or deny that the mud exists. And how does that look? When you're accused of fucking a pig in bad faith, move on to the issues that you want to talk about. The more you say 'I didn't fuck a pig' the more people hear about you fucking pigs.
