Nominations are now open for the most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11 - please send in yours
It’s time for the annual Left Foot Forward poll of the most influential left-wing thinker. Last year, Tony Benn topped the vote on 44%, followed by Ken Livingstone (34%), Caroline Lucas (33%), Noam Chomsky (30%) and Ed Miliband (24%) – who priescently came ahead of his brother David (18%).
We are now taking nominations for the title of the most influential left-wing thinker of 2011. You can send in your nomination by emailing us at [email protected] and putting “Nomination:” followed by the name of the person you wish to nominate. If you would like to argue for your nomination, please send a 150-250 word article in support, which we’ll look to run over August. They don’t necessarily:
- Have to be left-wing in a conventional sense
- Need to be someone whose views you personally agree with
- Widely perceived to be ‘political’
They do
- Have to have had a discernable impact between September 2010 and August 2011 on British Politics
We will then draw up a short list of 20 which will then be put to the vote.
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47 Responses to “Nominations are now open for most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11”
Dave Citizen
How about Ed Milliband?
Joseph Boughy
David Harvey, without a doubt.
Robert
9.How about Ed Milliband?
He’d have to find socialism first…..
Dave Citizen
Robert – thinking about it, for me he’d have to actually do something. May be in a year or two we’ll be able to see if Ed M can turn the right noises into some firmer proposals – then i will nominate him, (no doubt with the backing of some regular posters such as Anon, Beastie and Eds talking).
Ed's Talking Balls
I would have gone for Ed Miliband this time round, Dave, except the article specifies that nominees must be ‘influential’ and ‘thinkers’. Sadly, I therefore had to discount him and opt for Glasman instead.