...Jeremy Corbyn has at least succeeded in opening up a debate about some of the issues outlined above, something that has for too long been absent within mainstream politics. Given the nature of those issues, however, and the deeply entrenched power of pro-Washington think tanks, global capital and the British Establishment, which despises anything or anyone with even a moderate leftist agenda, it would be very easy to get carried away with Corbyn’s victory and inflate what he could realistically be expected to achieve.At last--a leftist Brit who provides a more level-headed assessment of Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labor Party leader in Britain! I follow several other left British websites who are all going ga-ga over Corbyn like he was the second coming of Christ! (For the latest examples, see this and this.) He is unusual and, I think, genuine, but even the limited reforms he offers to modify capitalist rule cannot be tolerated by the existing larger Empire of which Britain is an important part. And, I don't think that these conventional British leftists realize that they are contributing to the delusion that elections in a capitalist state really matter anymore. Unless a left movement materializes to use Corbyn's popularity to organize a genuine egalitarian bottom-up opposition that can, in cooperation with many other such organizations throughout this globalized world, really overturn the rule of the capitalist classes integrated under the banner of the US-led Empire, they will be merely indulging in more fantasies.
I don't think that many of the leftist Brits are fully conscious of the viciousness of the Empire's capitalist directors. They haven't experienced the many assassinations that we have here in the US, the nerve center of the Empire. If the British ruling class subsidiary of the US-led Empire are unable or too civilized to prevent or eliminate Corbyn from exercising effective changes in British policies, you can be dead certain that the US ruling class directors have no such inhibitions.
