Corbyn's comrades

摘要

THE Labour Party has an admirable record of realism when it comes to the Russian revolution and the regime that it spawned. From 1918 onwards Labour refused to work with the Communist Party and banned its members from belonging to it. Clement Attlee helped to construct nato as a bulwark against Soviet expansion and described Russian communism as the "illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great". Nye Bevan, one of Attlee's ministers, accused the Russians of establishing "a whole series of Trojan horses in every nation of the Western economy". Harold Wilson proclaimed that the Labour Party owed more to Methodism than to Marxism.