{"id":4328,"date":"2018-08-15T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/political-jargon-entryism\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:36:21","slug":"political-jargon-entryism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/political-jargon-entryism\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Jargon: Entryism"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> the New Statesman<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The founding example of entryism was provided by Leon Trotsky and the \u201cFrench turn\u201d. In 1934, the Russian revolutionary persuaded his supporters to dissolve the Communist League into the Socialist Party in order to maximise their influence. The term has since been applied to any group that enters a larger organisation with the intention of subverting its policies and objectives. <\/span><\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s most notable experience of entryism came with the Trotskyist Militant, which won control of the party\u2019s youth wing (Labour Party Young Socialists) and a number of constituency parties. After its proscription by the National Executive Committee in 1982, hundreds of the group\u2019s members were expelled during Neil Kinnock\u2019s leadership, including two MPs (Terry Fields and Dave Nellist). Len McCluskey, the Unite general secretary, was a Militant supporter though never formally joined. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOperation Ice Pick\u201d was the name given to Labour\u2019s efforts to prevent entryists from voting in the 2015 leadership election, after the means of assassination used against Trotsky. Those barred included members of the Socialist Party, the successor group to Militant. The pro-Corbyn organisation Momentum has similarly banned outsiders from joining after MPs warned that it could become a vehicle for entryism. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Responding to charges of infiltration, Jeremy Corbyn said: "The entryism I see is lots of young people who were hitherto not very excited by politics, coming in for the first time."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ice pick? How many times do I have to explain that it was an ICE AXE, a much nastier implement, that Ramon Mercader drove into the skull of Leon Trotsky on 20 August 1940.  Wikipedia: "On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Mercader, who used an ice axe<\/a> as a weapon.[137]<\/a><\/sup> "<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the New Statesman: The founding example of entryism was provided by Leon Trotsky and the \u201cFrench turn\u201d. In 1934, the Russian revolutionary persuaded his supporters to dissolve the Communist League into the Socialist Party in order to maximise their influence. The term has since been applied to any group that enters a larger organisation … Continue reading “Political Jargon: Entryism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-and-political-philosophy","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}