Describe your 'political tradition' in one sentence

[Captain Hurrah]

I won't tidy my bedroom.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I won't tidy my bedroom.

That makes you a Reactionary like lots of teenage and older lifestyle anarchists.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I won't tidy my bedroom.

Wallowing in your own filth is no way to effect meaningful social change.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Ground me, see if I care.

 

[killer b]

Is frank being a clueless gobby dick again?

 

[brogdale]

Good thread.

If I'm honest, I'm describing a political trajectory rather than a tradition.

Young Socialists, LP (lapsed 1989), Union(s) as a 'shoppy', socialism and latterly anarchism. Presently left-libertarian/Anarcho-communist with a tendancy to harbour utopian dreams and try to read too many political books at once!

 

[N_igma]

Irish Republican socialist with vague militant tendencies.

 

[smokedout]

I won't tidy my bedroom.

def leppardist

 

[Favelado]

The 1992 Labour Party Manifesto.

 

[smokedout]

stone rosest

 

[Fedayn]

Politically homeless, pro-working class miserablist ex Trotskiyst.

 

[frogwoman]

Did you? Jewish cultural nationalism (if that's what you're describing) is not the mark of anything wrong.

yeah, it is what I'm describing, as i'm not a zionist, and thanks for reassuring me, i always felt quite guilty about it in the past. i might not have told you but i've definitely said i am a few times on this forum

 

[frogwoman]

try to read too many political books at once!

this is how the bourgeoisie keep us down

 

[danny la rouge]

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

I think that covers it.

In a phrase, I'm an anarchist communist. (I'd have thought that this tradition would be fairly well understood, but there seems to be at least one anarchist on this thread who doesn't understand it). So that's my formal position.

However, there's much in all these named traditions and others that I like and admire. I'm comfortable to see the areas of overlap as reason enough to rub along. I don't restrict that common cause to social anarchists, but to left socialists, and anyone who likes ideas akin to libertarian municipalism.

In the event of communism coming - as come it will, for a' that - the imperative will be to find the common ground, not to argue over the niceties.

 

[smokedout]

we still get to shoot spooky though right?

 

[Casually Red]

leftist who generally hates left wing people and sometimes worries hes turning into a nazi in his old age . Getting much more intolerant as time goes on . Franz fanon and Padraig Pearse would probably be my 2 favourite political theorists . Likes Fidel and Hugo chavez too.

Would probably opt for full on marxist leninsim if push came to shove, if only to put whinging lefties in camps.

 

[brogdale]

this is how the bourgeoisie keep us down

Not books; capitalism and the state.

 

[frogwoman]

Not books; capitalism and the state.

i was being sarcastic, and thinking that reading too many books gets us all confused rather than planning the world revolution

 

[brogdale]

i was being sarcastic, and thinking that reading too many books gets us all confused rather than planning the world revolution

My ...too many Bishop's Fingers!

 

[sihhi]

leftist who generally hates left wing people

Are we all turning into self-loathing leftists?

 

[goldenecitrone]

My ...too many Bishop's Fingers!

Jimmy Saville thread thataway -------------------------------------------------------------->

 

[Casually Red]

Are we all turning into self-loathing leftists?

no , i think im great, usually . Its everyone else thats the problem , because theyre often wrong about almost everything of consequence , and see things of no consequence as highly important .

 

[emanymton]

Mostly I just hate the rich, oh and tories and I really hate rich tories.

 

[Casually Red]

Mostly I just hate the rich, oh and tories and I really hate rich tories.

no fucking imagination . I can easily find loads more reasons to hate my fellow man/woman

 

[jakethesnake]

Working class libertarian socialist

 

[emanymton]

no fucking imagination . I can easily find loads more reasons to hate my fellow man/woman

I did say mostly

 

[goldenecitrone]

no , i think im great, usually . Its everyone else thats the problem , because theyre often wrong about almost everything of consequence

I'm shocked to hear you say this. Shocked to the core.

 

[8ball]

Lapsed anarchist.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I won't tidy my bedroom.

I won't eat my greens

 

[William of Walworth]

Tory hater.