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In reply to the discussion: Oh My! Boris Johnson rules himself out of Tory leadership race after Gove ditches him [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)they're asking for a joint struggle with other progressive social forces, not some sort of rebranding. Class traitors is this case is accurate, even if emotive. Unlike the Democrats in this country, Labour in the UK was NOT begun as a "big tent" or a "party for all classes". Labour was begun as a political party to represent WORKERS first, NOT the bosses. When members of a workers' party side with the owners AGAINST the workers and their interests, then class traitors is accurate if emotive.
Edited to add: The above sentence about "progressive" only relates to people and groups. As a general term Marxists have used progressive to describe social forces in analysis as opposed to regressive forces. IOW, per Marx and Marxists, capitalism was a progressive system compared to feudalism or the slave cultures that preceded it.