Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born March 8, 1961 in Walthamstow ) is an English social thinker and life peer of the Labor Party in the House of Lords . He coined the term Blue Labor in 2009 .

life and career

Youth and education

Glasman was born in Walthamstow , northeast London, to a Jewish family. His father, Collie Glasman, ran a small toy factory, and his mother, Rivie Glasman, who came from a poor background, was a Labor Party supporter for many years of her life. Glasman went to the Clapton Jewish Day School and the Jews' Free School , where he won a scholarship to study New History at St Catharine's College (Cambridge) .

As a trumpeter he played in a jazz group for four years and graduated in political philosophy from the University of York and received his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence with a doctoral thesis on the German social market economy ; the work was published in 1996 under the title Unnecessary Suffering . Glasman gives political thinkers from Aristotle to the Hungarian economist and sociologist Karl Polanyi great influence on his politics.

Professional career

Glasman became a professor at the European Center at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna . After the death of his father in 1995, he returned to the UK. He is Professor of Political Theory at London Metropolitan University . According to his website, "his research interests focus on the relationship between citizenship and faith and the limits of the market". He worked with Londoners for ten years, doing a study on the organization of communities .

Political opinions

He joined the Labor Party in 1976 at the age of 15 and became increasingly involved in political work with Labor after his mother's death in 2008. He coined the term Blue Labor . Glasman defined this as a small-conservative form of socialism that advocates a way back to the roots of the pre-1945 Labor Party by increasing the involvement of volunteer groups such as trade unions, churches or football clubs .

On November 19, 2010, his appointment as a Life Peer was announced. On February 4, 2011, he was raised to life peer as Baron Glasman and moved into the House of Lords on March 8, 2011 , where he sits for Labor.

In April 2011, Glasman asked his party to seek dialogue with supporters of the far-right English Defense League (EDL) in order to form a party that would mediate and involve those in our party who support the EDL. They are not supposed to dominate the party and not set the tone, but it is supposed to connect with them to give them a better life, because that's what they want ("to build a party that brokers a common good, that involves those people who support the EDL within our party. Not dominant in the party, not setting the tone of the party, but just a reconnection with those people that we can represent a better life for them, because that's what they want ").

In July 2011, Glasman called for a temporary halt to immigration and the right to free movement of work, one of the key messages of the Treaty of Rome . Because of these statements, Blue Labor lost more and more of its influence in the Labor Party.

He stressed that Israel should not be demonized, but he believed that terrible things were going on there, adding that the Israeli settler movement was as evil as Islamic fundamentalism. He sees nationalist supremacy among both jihadists and settlers, and he can only express his disgust for it. He nevertheless accepted a visiting professorship offered by Haifa University and told the Jewish Cronicle , "If people say they want to boycott Israel, they should start boycotting me."

Personal

Glasman is a promoter of Jewish traditions, he goes to the synagogue regularly on the Sabbath , and is a founding member of the Stoke Newington New Shul , a synagogue belonging to the Masorti movement. His wife Catherine is also very involved in Judaism. They live kosher and celebrate the Sabbath.

Publications

• Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford , Marc Stears and Stuart White (Eds.): The Labor Tradition and the Politics of Paradox: The Oxford London Seminars 2010-11 . The Oxford-London Seminars. Soundings Journal, 2011.
• Maurice Glasman: Labor as a radical tradition . Soundings, Number 46. pp. 31-41. Winter 2010. Accessed January 21, 2013.
• Maurice Glasman: The Secret of Obama's success . November 8, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
• Maurice Glasman: Losing Your Rag . February 4, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
• Maurice Glasman: Unnecessary Suffering: Managing Market Utopia . Verso, 1996.
• Maurice Glasman: The Great Deformation: Polanyi, Poland, and the Terrors of Planned Spontaneity . May / June 1994. Retrieved January 21, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dr Maurice Glasman. Senior Lecturer in Political Theory ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lord Glasman: 'I'm a radical traditionalist'
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Interview: Maurice Glasman. My vision for Labor - and it's all down to mum
4. ^ Maurice Glasman: "I didn't go into politics to be a hero to the Mail" . In: New Statesman . August 1, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
5. ^ ^{A b} Toby Helm, Julian Coman: Maurice Glasman - the peer plotting Labor's new strategy from his flat . In: The Observer . January 16, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
6. ^ Labor: Now it's kind of blue . In: The Guardian Politics Blog . April 24, 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
7. ^ Latest Peerages announced . 10 Downing Street. November 19, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
8. ^ Robert Philpot: Labor isn't working . Progress. April 19, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
9. ^ Mary Riddell, and Tom Whitehead: Immigration should be frozen, says Miliband adviser . In: Daily Telegraph , July 18, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2012. 
10. ^ Macer Hall: Britain Must Ban Migrants . In: Daily Express , July 19, 2011. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 18, 2012.  
11. ^ Dan Hodges: Exclusive: the end of Blue Labor . In: New Statesman , July 20, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2012. 
12. ^ Mary Riddell: The Fabian Interview: Maurice Glasman. Way to Blue . In: Fabian Review . Summer 2011. Archived from the original on December 13, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 18, 2012. 
13. ↑ Yom Masorti . masorti.org.uk. April 22, 2012. Archived from the original on April 14, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 18, 2012. 

Web links

Wikiquote: Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman  - Quotes

• Personal page at London Metropolitan University
• Blog
• "Confronting the City," Mat Little, Red Pepper (November 2009): profile of Glasman
• "The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire" (MP3; 38.3 MB): presentation by Nicholas Shaxson and Maurice Glasman at the LSE , February 1, 2011. Glasman begins speaking approximately 31 min into the recording, and jointly answers questions after the 54 min mark.