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Comment: The Militant godfather: Nye Bevan, the saint of progressive mythology, was a disastrously divisive figure in Labour's history
2010
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As with many egotists there was a self-destructive streak to [Bevan]. James Griffiths, deputy leader of Labour in the 50s, said that the Welsh Labour MPs could have won the leadership for Bevan \"but Aneurin had turned his back on us\". A taste for metropolitan existence meant that Bevan, even by the parliamentary standards of his time, was very distant from his Ebbw Vale constituents. And of course he had a thoroughly Marxist view of national identity as a lower stage in historical development: a primitive tribalism that would be replaced by international consciousness. This would have justified Bevan in courses of action he would have been keen on anyway: ignoring other Welsh Labour MPs and removing himself from Wales as much as possible.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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