Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Bennite siege economy

Russian translation:

бенновская экономика осажденной крепости

Added to glossary by Oleg Lozinskiy
Feb 16, 2016 09:20
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Bennite siege economy

English to Russian Social Sciences Government / Politics Britain
But McDonnell and Corbyn’s basic equivocation about EU membership – consistent with their Bennite siege economy, anti-capitalist past – is no longer just a matter of esoteric discussion among leftwing dissidents for whom the narcissism of small difference is a central tenet of doctrinal squabbles.
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бенновская экономика осажденной крепости

экономика осажденной крепости Тони Бенна

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Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally a 'moderate', he was identified as being on the party's hard left from the early 1980s, and was widely seen as a key proponent of democratic socialism within the party.[1]
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When the Labour Party was again in opposition through the 1980s, he emerged as a prominent figure on its left wing and the term "Bennite" came into currency as someone associated with radical left-wing politics.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn

Бенн, Тони

Э́нтони Нил Уэ́дгвуд «То́ни» Бенн (англ. Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn; 3 апреля 1925, Мэрилебон — 14 марта 2014, Лондон) — британский левый политический деятель, многолетний депутат парламента и член кабинета министров Великобритании, президент политической коалиции Stop the War.
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Во время нахождения лейбористов в оппозиции в течение 1980-х, даже появился термин «Bennite» (термин, никогда фактически не использованный Бенном), которым стали пользоваться в Великобритании для обозначения кого-то более леворадикального, чем средний английский лейборист или социал-демократ.[4]
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бенн,_Тони

https://www.google.ru/#newwindow=1&tbs=li:1&q=синдром осажде...

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The Alternative Economic Strategy (AES) is the name of the economic programme of the left-wing of the British Labour Party during the 1970s and early 1980s.

The Secretary of State for Industry in the Labour government, Tony Benn, wrote a paper for his Department in January 1975, which he described in his diary: "It described Strategy A which is the Government of national unity, the Tory strategy of a pay policy, higher taxes all round and deflation, with Britain staying in the Common Market. Then Strategy B which is the real Labour policy of saving jobs, a vigorous micro-investment programme, import control, control of the banks and insurance companies, control of export, of capital, higher taxation of the rich, and Britain leaving the Common Market".[1]

With Britain in economic crisis in October 1976, Benn again put forward the AES with the support of Peter Shore in Cabinet.[2] He claimed the two courses open to the government were the monetarist, deflationary course recommended by the Treasury and "the protectionist course which is the one I have consistently recommended for two and a half years...protectionism is a perfectly respectable course of action. It is compatible with our strategy. You withdraw behind walls and reconstruct and re-emerge".[3] Benn further said that both courses were a "siege economy" but the difference is that in the monetarist course "you will have the bankers with you and the British people, the trade unions, outside the citadel storming you; with mine it will be the other way round".[4] However the Cabinet rejected the AES on 1/2 December and accepted the terms for a loan from the International Monetary Fund.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Economic_Strategy

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См. также: https://www.google.ru/#newwindow=1&tbs=li:1&q="Tony Benn" "s...
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Спасибо, Олег! С "беннитами" и Тони Бенном понятно, а вот siege - отсылка к какому явлению в британской политике 80-х, я, честно говоря, не разобралась.
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Bennite siege economy

What is the United Kingdom had become a siege economy in the 1970's?

Due to the economic meltdown caused by OPEC 1973 and the continuing decline of the British economy many political figures, especially in the British Labour Party, suggested the UK become a 'siege economy'. OTL we instead got monetarism and neo-liberalism.

'Siege economy' I define as:
1. Highly protectionist; massive tariffs, export subsidies and import quotas.
2. Exchange and capital controls; to prevent domestic investors taking their money off-shore to invest in lower-wage nations, etc.
3. Increased govt direction of industry, govt encourages investment in certain industries over others
4. Massive govt spending, expansion of the public sector to reduce unemployment.
5. In rare case use of rationing of some items to improve trade balance (OTL in 1947 the British govt introduced electricity rationing, to allow increased coal exports, to provide foreign currency to pay off war debts).

'Siege economy' could also be characterised as a 'war economy', as it essentially puts the economy on a war footing, except without military build-up.
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v12/n24/david-marquand/citizens


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An economy under such heavy government regulation that it cannot function properly.

An economy in which import controls are imposed and the export of capital is curtailed.

A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by attrition or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latin for "to sit".
Во время военных действий некоторыми войсковыми или флотскими начальниками применялся оперативный или тактический приём — осада. Осада начинается при условии сопротивления со стороны города или крепости, в случае, если капитуляция отвергается защитниками и город или крепость невозможно захватить быстро. Осаждающие часто полностью блокируют объект, нарушая снабжение боеприпасами и другими военными ресурсами, но полное лишение гражданского населения пищи и воды обычно рассматривается как военное преступление осаждающих.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Осада
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