Tony Blair has long claimed to know what is necessary for progressives to become, in his term, “change- makers”. His recent essay for the New Statesman, in which he prescribes how the Labour Party can be resurrected as a progressive force, is no exception. His opponents are always “‘small c’ conservatives”, unable to grasp what the future demands.
Once, it was globalisation that defined the progressive task. Now, it is “the 21st century technological revolution”. This, Blair says, represents the “most far-reaching upheaval since the 19th-century Industrial Revolution”; progressives will succeed if they are the ones who “understand this revolution, [and] show how it can be mastered for the benefit of the people”.
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