Democratic Socialism and the Labour party

[spartan]

Now the Labour party here in the UK was founded as a Democratic Socialist party (A position that even now it still maintains as its official ideology) and it grew out of the various Socialist parties and trade union movements of the late nineteenth century.

But it has now unfortunately moved far away from its traditional left wing politics and principles on which the party was founded to a more neo Liberal and third way free market economy position due to there four election losses against the neo Liberal (Or Thatcherite) Conservatives in the 80's and 90's.

So my question is this: Is there any chance of the Labour party ever returning to its Democratic Socialist politics on which it was founded?

Would you support a Labour party that changed its position and started advocated and proposing Democratic Socialist policies?

[Dros]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 12:43 am
Would you support a Labour party that changed its position and started advocated and proposing Democratic Socialist policies?
No.

1st.) "Democratic Socialism" is a nice way of saying bandaid for capitalism. Democratic Socialism is not socialism in the marxist sense and will never lead to communism.

2nd.) It is still a Bourgois party and will thus never advocate/effect any material change that will radically redefine production relations.

[Lenin II]

As left-leaning as they might have been in the past, the Labour Party possessed little revolutionary tendencies. I seriously doubt they will ever lean back to the left since bourgeoisie never change and never will, and if they somehow did, their programs would still be essentially apologists for capitalism. If they displayed some truly revolutionary character, then I might be persuaded.