Describe your 'political tradition' in one sentence

[Random]

From reading about all the rival SWPers positioning themselves as part of various traditions, I was wondering: what's your longer political label, that accurately defines where you're coming from?

Imagine you're at a broad left political gathering, full of politically experienced people, and you need to sum up where you're coming from, in one sentence, what do you say?

Myself I'm a class struggle eco anarchist, in the tradition of Dave Morris. Not heard from him in a long time, actually.

 

[Idris2002]

Middle class academic.

 

[mk12]

Fuck knows. All over the place.

 

[quimcunx]

vaguely socialisty left wing lottery hopeful.

 

[chilango]

I tried to do this the other day whn my mother conflated my views with that of the Welsh Labour Party.

I guess I'm infkueced by, but not a partisan of, various strands of the libertarianish communist tradition -notably autonomism, situationism and stuff like Midnight Notes, Processed World, Echanges et Mouvement etc. with a heavy dash of EF! style radical environmentalism.

My mother looked at me very blankly.

"Sort of a communist" worked much better.

 

[articul8]

"lottery" or "trottery" - what does "lottery hopeful" mean - getting 6 numbers up?

 

[DotCommunist]

agree with me or its coffee with beria time

 

[frogwoman]

Trotskyism, anti-fascist jewish nationalism that isn't really nationalism at all plus a load of other shit that i have no clue about.

 

[8115]

Why can't people just get along?

 

[mk12]

"It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice."

 

[frogwoman]

"lottery" or "trottery" - what does "lottery hopeful" mean - getting 6 numbers up?

A trottery hopeful means hoping to win a thousand papers to sell

 

[SpineyNorman]

Communist.

 

[8115]

Gun for hire

 

[Firky]

"Apolitical and wise enough to write something that would later get me shit on Urban."

 

[articul8]

Post new left, post 68, post bennite socialist still looking to move beyond the fragments.

 

[chilango]

Post new left, post 68, post bennite socialist still looking to move beyond the fragments.

That really sounds like a dating ad "wltm left labour with gsoh" eh? Opposition and maybe something more?

 

[SpineyNorman]

Post new left, post 68, post bennite socialist still looking to move beyond the fragments.

I don't understand what any of that means. Almost understood the bennite part but the 'post' put me right off the scent.

What are the fragments and what lies beyond them?

 

[Blagsta]

Anarchist-communist, libertarian-socialist, anarcho-syndicalist, council/left communist, autonomist Marxist (armchair branch)

I think that covers it.

 

[articul8]

Leninism has had its day, social democratic parties are pretty bankrupt, women's movement and peace movement and anti-racist struggles left important legacies but no organisational expression, same likely true of anti-globalisation, occupy etc. What lies beyond? Good question. But we don't have an adequate blueprint to reach for

 

[killer b]

Semi-retired hardcore raver

 

[Kaka Tim]

libetarian socialist/ageing 80s dole blagger

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Marxist

 

[articul8]

Marxist

Marx said he wasn't one

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Marx said he wasn't one

I know but that is what we who agree with his writings call ourselves and I doubt that Lenin called himself a Leninist or Trotsky a Trotskyist these terms tend to come later as people read & discuss what has been written by them

 

[xenon]

Just show me the menu.

 

[Lo Siento.]

"communist" covers it for me.

 

[Lo Siento.]

communist baking. In that I'm trying to organise my workplace through making everybody cake.

 

[butchersapron]

Marx said he wasn't one

Hitler was a vegatarian, arabs are semites, black history month,

 

[butchersapron]

I know but that is what we who agree with his writings call ourselves and I doubt that Lenin called himself a Leninist or Trotsky a Trotskyist these terms tend to come later as people read & discuss what has been written by them

You agree with the entirety of his writings?

 

[chilango]

communist baking. In that I'm trying to organise my workplace through making everybody cake.

Careful now.

They'll be wanting the whole bakery next...