Starmer For PM: We Need To Kill False Hope

The traditional analysis is that reform ameliorates the desire for change and so makes less revolution less likely, we no longer think that is true. We think that the narrowing of the Overton window to this extent means that reform will be more than ever exposed as inadequate.

Things have got worse, people no longer need things to get better, they can even tolerate things getting way worse so long as they believe the reformist alternative in opposition would do something different and better. It allows people to believe they would be substantially different and that our democracy and economy allow for choice. It's not good to believe lies.

This faith in an alternative particularly when untested for so long as with Labour, who have been in opposition for 12 years now, is the thing that enables the avoidance of the necessity of revolution let alone preparedness to undertake it.

Now, with this political landscape, we think it impossible for the "progressive alternative, such as Labour in the UK and as we are seeing with Dems in the US. Labour will not satisfy people enough in government and revolution only becomes more likely when people are faced with the failure of such party's to deliver. This is why we have decided we are actively hoping Keir Starmer will become PM.

Just tweeted this upon a rather horrible realisation:

I realise that if you don't know us and that we are entirely serious when we talk about revolution I'm aware you will likely accuse us of being a Pro Labour social media psyop upon reading this but what the hell.

It will really suck if it happens but where I think I can help I can't hold back, I care about praxis, not popularity. I do ask you not to jump to such a conclusion, not that I know how you could should you look any anything else we've done ever, but I know Twitter.

Some will do so having not looked at our other work or making any attempt to inform themselves as to our credentials as advocates for revolution, some will do so without even reading the blog post. I hope I'm wrong... but it's Twitter.