Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

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

• 2.1 Personal

Life and career

Youth and Education

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

As a trumpeter, he played four years in a jazz group and graduated in Political Philosophy at the University of York and his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence, with a thesis on the German social market economy; the work was published in 1996 under the title Unnecessary Suffering. Glasman 's political thinkers from Aristotle to the Hungarian economist and sociologist Karl Polanyi great influence on his policy ..

Professional career

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

Politics

He joined in 1976 with 15 years in the Labour Party and was involved heavily in the political work with Labour after the death of his mother in 2008. He coined the term Blue Labour. Glasman defined this as a small - conservative form of socialism which advocates the way back to the roots of pre- 1945 Labour Party through increased integration of voluntary groups, such as Unions, churches or football clubs.

On 19 November 2010 he was appointed Life Peer was announced. On February 4, 2011, he was raised as Baron Glasman for Life Peer and took on 8 March 2011 in the House of Lords, where he sits for Labour.

In April 2011, Glasman called for his party to seek dialogue with the supporters of the far-right English Defence League ( EDL) to form a party that mediates and incorporate those in our party who support the EDL. They should not dominate the party and not to set the tone, but there should be a link to them to give them a better life, because that's what they want ( "to build a party did brokers a common good, did 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 did we can represent a better life for them, Because that's what theywant ".

In July 2011, called for Glasman that immigration and the right to work free movement need to be stopped temporarily, one of the key messages of the Treaty of Rome. Because of these statements lost, Blue Labour more and more his influence in the Labour Party.

He stressed that Israel should not be demonized, but went there, in his opinion, terrible things vonstatten, and added that the Israeli settler movement is just as bad as Islamic fundamentalism. He sees both jihadists, as well as with the settlers nationalist hegemony and he could only express his disgust about it. He still took a visiting professorship at, which had been offered to him by the University of Haifa, and told the Jewish Cronicle: " If people say they want to boycott Israel, they should start to boycott me. "

Personal

Glasman is patron of Jewish traditions, he goes regularly to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and is a founding member of the Stoke Newington New Shul, a synagogue, a member of the Masorti Movement. His wife Catherine is also very involved in Judaism. You keep kosher and observe the Sabbath.

Publications

• The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox: The Oxford London Seminars 2010-11. The Oxford - London seminar. Soundings Journal, 2011.
• Maurice Glasman: Labour as a radical tradition. Soundings, Number 46 pp. 31-41. Winter 2010. Accessed on 21 January 2013.
• Maurice Glasman: The Secret of Obama 's success. 8. November 2008.
• Maurice Glasman: Losing Your Rag. 4. February 2006.
• Maurice Glasman: Unnecessary Suffering: Managing Market Utopia. Verso, 1996.
• Maurice Glasman: The Great Deformation: Polanyi, Poland, and the terror of Planned Spontaneity. May / June 1994. Accessed on 21 January 2013.