Has Labour lost its socialist roots? | Jon Lansman

“I don’t think [the Labour Party] subscribes to any one person’s form of socialism.”

The Labour Party is not exclusively socialist but its origins come from the social movement dating back to Marx, says Jon Lansman, co-founder of Labour’s left-wing organisation Momentum.

[djoldschool]

If you want to vote for a socialist party, the only opportunity now really are the Greens. I cannot see the labour party as it is now having much appeal for people who truly follow socialist values. Sadly, I think most of us can see them as a Tory-lite organisation.

[johnburrows]

Starmer is playing the long game here . He's trying to get elected first.

[TheCaptain-dbys]

Starmer is more right wing than Natalie Elphicke.

[stephenhill]

Socialism is the half-way house to communism, not social democracy, which holds that social justice is possible within a market economy, by progressive taxation, provision of state-owned public services etc.

[snowyowel]

Starmer is an undemocratic hypocrite.
No rules were broken 😂😅

[Crouchy]

This is nonsense. Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed today that when he said this he was actually responding to the previous question

[stephenhill]

Labour's roots lie in the trade union movement. It is a political offshoot of them. It arose due to growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of social reform in nineteenth century Britain.

[joshuachapman]

Nit picking, no real difference in those statements.