Up-to-date analysis of how Corbyn rose to the head of the Labour Party, and his prospects for staying there
Richard Seymour is a writer, broadcaster and socialist, currently based in London. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Jacobin and many other publications.
Seymour is an essential voice on the left, and this book is a
necessary intervention, explaining this daunting political moment
and bringing the focus back to strategy. Not so much a call to arms
as a call to brains.
*Laurie Penny*
One of our most astute political analysts turns his attention to
Corbyn, and the result is predictably essential: not just to make
sense of how we got to this unlikely situation, but for his
thoughts on what the left might do next
*China Miéville*
No one writes about politics the way Richard Seymour does. He takes
a very British story of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, with all its
peculiarities and details, and turns it into a revelation of the
international crisis of parliamentary democracy. Whether you love
Corbyn-or Sanders or Podemos or Syriza-or loathe him (and them),
you'll find here the most sophisticated diagnosis of why men and
women across the globe are turning to the left and why their
aspirations are so continuously being frustrated. Seymour is a
magnificent explainer: pointed without being pedantic, funny with
out being flip, and always insisting that we take in the whole.
*Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from
Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin*
The Anglophone left has been cheered by the surprising rise of
Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in Britain. Richard
Seymour's elegantly written book is a reminder of all the obstacles
facing Corbyn. Even if you're not as pessimistic as Seymour about
his prospects, you really need to pay attention to this critique.
It will make you a better fighter of the necessary class war.
*Doug Henwood, author of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the
Presidency*
Long after the Labour left was thought to be dead, Jeremy Corbyn's
emergence has inspired millions. There is no one better positioned
than Richard Seymour to take a look at his emergence and whether
Corbyn can actually turn Labour into a force for radical
change.
*Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin*
Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style.
Everything he writes is worth reading.
*Gary Younge*
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics is the fullest and
fairest account of Jeremy Corbyn's rise released to date. In
avoiding much of the rhetoric espoused in similar accounts focusing
on Corbyn's early career this book provides a frank account of how
the unlikely leader took charge of the Labour party. It is a very
readable account too. Richard Seymour writes plainly but
effectively and his writing is both accessible and incredibly
informative.
*New Statesman*
Richard Seymour's Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
not only shows how, amid Labour Party decline, Jeremy Corbyn and
his supporters challenged the neoliberal consensus, but also
considers the possibility of success and what form that might
take.
*Times Higher Education [Books of 2016]*
Laser-sharp analysis of British 'Labourism' and its contradictions
. This book is terrifically astute
*The National*
A witty and acute political and historical analysis from a position
to the left of Corbyn ... Seymour is utterly unsentimental in his
analysis.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A brilliant and incisive analysis by a long-term watcher of the
party.
*Middle East Monitor*
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics is the first
serious analysis of Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected ascent.
*Vice*
A must-read for militants inside and outside the Labour Party.
*rs21*
Corbyn is not about Corbyn in much the same way that Richard
Seymour's earlier and much shorter book, The Meaning of David
Cameron, wasn't really about its eponymous anti-hero. Rather it is
an analysis-and an astute one-of the socio-political conditions
which have given rise to Corbynism, its future prospects and the
substantial obstacles it will inevitably face.
*Ceasefire*
The best, and the definitive, account of what Corbyn's victory the
first time round meant. One year on the essential summer 2016
read.
*Philosophy Football*
It is a point of contention whether the politics represented by
Jeremy Corbyn offers a pathway out of the crisis or we are instead
witnessing the last hurrah of Britain's harried and diminished
workers' movement. That is one of the questions Richard Seymour
tries to answer in his excellent new book.Seymour's analysis
remains indispensable
*Red Pepper*
The finest study of Corbyn yet written
*New Statesman*
An excellent political biography
*Choice*
A highly opinionated study of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership,
and the circumstances that gave rise to it ... full of insights
*Guardian*
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