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where do you fit in? http://politicalcompass.org/test me - Economic Left/Right: -8.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

So is that a yes or a no?

I have my own criticisms of Compass - but not for the reasons that have left some to leave recently. The problem is not with their pluralism and opening out per se, it is with the soft socical democratic politics on which it appealing to people outside Labour. I do find Compass more...

I see your point, but if we don't engage on these issues then people will adopt the conclusions pedalled by others, and it entrenches the view that the left doesn't understand or engage with working class issues and toes the establishment liberal line - that we are no different from the...

Well said.

Not only does it channel votes to the centre, but it will be used as a bloc against a pro-working class party/alliance if it ever becomes a threat, just as the Aussies have used it to form a bloc against the far right. Which is the point of it. Every vote will count so long as you vote...

Compass were explict that they meant lib-dems. Yeah, all those people are hot for your think tank pluralism. Do a paper for them.

Outside of Labour means - to me - means groups like the Greens, Pcs and Fbu, socialists, left nationalists (eg. Plaid left) and yes people who are leaving the LDs in disgust. ANd most of all people outside of formal politics but politicised by tuiton fees, EMA, Libraries, etc.

What's that got to do with your assumption that your we covers me or anyone else? You want to join up with the lib-dems -don't you dare wag your finger at other ('parts') for being consistent in their politics. You've just said that everyone who i thought would support me is shit and have...

On this subject I just posted the following on facebook following some very interesting books I had to sort through at work today. Today at work several books landed on my desk which I had to sort from the 19th Century. Several of them were about the urgent need to set up the National Health...

In the formerly Communist-ruled societies, the end result of precisely this message was that even those who supported the social system believed hardly anything of what the media told them. Under capitalism the message is more subtle, as well as increasingly inescapable.

Depends whether it was relevant to people's lives.

It both reflects and is a contributory factor toward it. A thought fox on this tho - were the media to start broadcasting a consistent workers rights, anti-cap message, would it's consumers end up with a political variation of compassion fatigue?

A bit of an abstract preoccupation, perhaps, when there is currently, despite all that's happening, absolutely no prospect of any radically left wing opposition to the present state of affairs that would eventually be capable of gathering the support of, say, 5% of the population.

absofuckinglutely. this is whaT I too want to understand about anarchism. But in order to do that, I personally need a couple of compass points/landmarks on the anarchist political landscape, in order to try and create a mental map/picture of what they are talking about. Don't forget, when I...

I am just interested in discussing anarchism. I'm particularly interested in organisation and leadership, the attitude of anarchist to these things. But obviously, I am not trying to limit the conversation to anarchists, any opinion on the topic is welcome. I have several questions which have...

I just read through all the resource pages - it's excellent, really excellent. A good simple but comprehensive guide to the issues, with plenty of data presented in a very digestible form, followed up up quotes from expert economists and links to the sources, and then links to the many detailed...

I said nothing about technological determinism. Nor did I say anything about the need to merely recite Marx. What is what you would call the dialectical materialism of Marx? There is very little written explicitly describing a philosophy. There's Engels Anti-Duhring and Ludwig Feuerbach...

Sorry Knotted, but you touched on a little pet hate there. At university, they would say Marx was a, for example, technological determinist because he said "quotes about windmills etc". For me, Marx didn't write Bibles, just to be recited. He gave a methodology of analysis. And in my opinion...

Obviously I think they are utter slime but this illustrates the point I've made a few times on this board about the Tory right in cabinet (in the shape of IDS and Fox) being the only ones to put up any sort of resistance to cuts; it's the Lib Dem ministers who've been the fiscal hard-liners...