What is “Acid Corbynism”? The term – coined a few months ago by the Labour activist Matthew Phull – has already provoked fascination, mystification and derision in almost equal measure. Even the Guardian’s Pass Notes column has had a go at it.
The phrase emerged during the planning stage of the World Transformed (TWT), the parallel “festival of politics, art, music and culture” that took place in September alongside Labour’s official conference. Phull and some of the TWT organisers were discussing the possibility of holding a session that would focus on the political legacy of the 1960s counterculture, the possibilities of political “consciousness-raising” in the 21st century and the politics of dance music culture.
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