The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
The right kind of leader for the Labour party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.
The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.
What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in its own right, effortlessly, some kind of ideological direction which is a reflection of your thinking and you want your thinking, above all.
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
We've all got to discover the courage to ask the difficult questions about the future of our party and the future of the working-class communities who need a Labour government.
