Tom Nairn, The House of Windsor, NLR I/127, May

Max 8/09/2022

Tom Nairn - “The House of Windsor”
▻https://newleftreview.org/issues/i127/articles/tom-nairn-the-house-of-windsor

The British people are not daft because they still adore a Crowned Head; but they are the victims of a political culture which is in certain definable aspects retarded and limited. These peculiar limitations descend from the experience of empire, and are rooted in the nature of the existing state. It is useless to criticize monarchy in isolation from these things.

#antiroyalism #abolition #socialism

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Max @maxbastow 8/09/2022

In reality it was military and colonial success that transfigured the stodgy British monarchy into the Disneyish charade of modern times. The British state’s victory over the more radical bourgeois revolution in France had been the key.

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Max @maxbastow 8/09/2022

The Windsors are not really bicycling kings and queens, egalitarian monarchs. They are the essential tools of a social conservatism which has successfully disabled both egalitarianism and political democracy.

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Tom Nairn, The House of Windsor, NLR I/127, May–June 1981

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