Not really. He had a genuine loyalty to the labour party that none of the current leadership ever had. Like if instead of ratfucking him they'd told him it would be good for labour if he fell on the sword, he might have done it literally. But he was also always on the very far left of the party, and advocated on multiple occasions to open the party up to more radical policies and membership.

Corbyn is as good as you're ever gonna get in bourgeois parliamentary democracy, and he's been actively working politically for the left for longer than most people here have been alive, and for that he deserves credit. But he's not Lenin.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He's not, but on foreign policy he's not far off — which is why they burned everything to the ground just to get rid of him. The imperialist line is the one you simply cannot cross in the UK political system.

(Edit - to add more) His biggest weakness is that he comes out of the Bennite tradition i.e. he sees suffrage as the great victory of the labour movement in the UK, and social gains having flowed from workers having the VOTE. However, one does wonder how his position might have evolved. Many of his followers (hello) started off as Bennites and were pushed way to the left of that after witnessing what happened during his tenure.

[–] FettermansFinalStroke@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Makes sense, thanks