Non-aligned far lefties, align yourselves here

[Brainaddict]

Not sure if I can get a sensible response to a question like this, but who here would describe themselves as far left (ish), but not belonging to (in reality or in spirit) any political group or nameable creed?

I would, hence the question, and I from time to time think there must be quite a few others on here - perhaps those who don't post so much in the politics forums.

I leave the definition of 'far left (ish)' to your own discretion

 

[kasheem]

I'm not 'far' but maybe I'm left.

 

[bluestreak]

i don't think i know what i am. the anarchists tell me i don't know enough to be an anarchist, the far lefties think i'm a middle class liberal, the liberals i know think i'm a naive lefty idealist with dangerously anarchist leanings. i'm definitely to the left of any political party with seats in the uk.

in the political compass thigns i always end up in the bottom left though, even if no-one wants me in their group and i don't like aligning myself with other people's ideas.

 

[zenie]

I dont know what I am either

 

[articul8]

I'm not actively aligned with any organisation

I would describe myself as being on the far left and as a marxist.

I tend to agree with a lot of the political positions taken up by the SP (although they are a bit formalistic and abstract on the national question IMO). I'm not to keen on its dogmatic air of superiority and automatic dismissal of other left forces though. And it can also adopt a gratingly workerist stance.

I'm interested in left communist/anarchist/libertarian etc traditions which take class struggle seriously, not as a daddy-funded gap year in which to smoke dope and not wash.

 

[phildwyer]

Non-aligned Marxist here.

 

[articul8]

thought you had 'proved' the existence of God? Doesn't sound very marxist to me

 

[phildwyer]

thought you had 'proved' the existence of God? Doesn't sound very marxist to me

Which just goes to show how little you know of Marx.

 

[articul8]

yes must have missed that bit

 

[blamblam]

Non-aligned Marxist here.

Ha ha. Although now I'm glad cos I heard you're not actually a cretin you're just writing a book about dickheads on the internet? You not got enough material yet?

 

[DrRingDing]

If any of you seem to have lost your way politically I hear these "lads" are recruiting--> Fenland Revolution

 

[phildwyer]

Ha ha. Although now I'm glad cos I heard you're not actually a cretin you're just writing a book about dickheads on the internet?

No I'm not. Who told you that?

 

[Brainaddict]

To me 'Marxist' would suggest a nameable creed, no? But I suspect the list of far left non-marxists would be rather short, so I'd better not discount you...

If you want more of a definition of far left (ish) then I'd say something like: *significantly* to the left of any major political party (including their backbenchers ).

 

[phildwyer]

To me 'Marxist' would suggest a nameable creed, no? But I suspect the list of far left non-marxists would be rather short, so I'd better not discount you...

If you want more of a definition of far left (ish) then I'd say something like: *significantly* to the left of any major political party (including their backbenchers ).

There are plenty of far-left non-Marxists. But actually, I'd argue that that Left/Right dichotomy rests upon an obsolete metaphor. There is no reason to allow the seating arrangements of the French Constituent Assembly in 1790 to continue to dominate our conception of the political sepctrum. Is there?

 

[trashpony]

I'm non-aligned. Exactly where I'm aligned depends very much on who I'd have to stand next to

 

[girasol]

misaligned socialist...

 

[exosculate]

Quietly puts hand up

 

[Idaho]

i don't think i know what i am. the anarchists tell me i don't know enough to be an anarchist, the far lefties think i'm a middle class liberal, the liberals i know think i'm a naive lefty idealist with dangerously anarchist leanings. i'm definitely to the left of any political party with seats in the uk.

in the political compass thigns i always end up in the bottom left though, even if no-one wants me in their group and i don't like aligning myself with other people's ideas.

Something similar for me.

I believe in many anarchist principles but also some free market ones. I don't have any faith in revolutions or beauracracies. And think that the last people that should ever be given any power are those who argue endlessly about obscure theoretical points from largely unread texts.

 

[Dubversion]

i don't think i know what i am. the anarchists tell me i don't know enough to be an anarchist, the far lefties think i'm a middle class liberal, the liberals i know think i'm a naive lefty idealist with dangerously anarchist leanings. i'm definitely to the left of any political party with seats in the uk.

in the political compass thigns i always end up in the bottom left though, even if no-one wants me in their group and i don't like aligning myself with other people's ideas.

that's pretty much me. what a thoroughly unlamented ex-poster would have sneeringly called an angry liberal.

for what it's worth, i believe that anarchist groups do more on a daily basis to add to the sum of human happiness in their communities.

 

[ViolentPanda]

No I'm not. Who told you that?

Didn't your mother teach you common courtesy?

 

[tbaldwin]

I'm a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST. Sadly the closest thing we have to a Democratic Socialist Party seems to be the Labour Party.
In yesteryears i got involved in various far left groups campaigns including Red Action and the Socialist Labour party very briefly. Dogmatism is the enemy of Socialism.

 

[kasheem]

I'm a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST. Sadly the closest thing we have to a Democratic Socialist Party seems to be the Labour Party.
In yesteryears i got involved in various far left groups campaigns including Red Action and the Socialist Labour party very briefly. Dogmatism is the enemy of Socialism.

I agree with you. Whatever you say about Labour it is the only organisation that has a tenth of a fraction of a chance of moving thing in a socialist direction. If I was a socialist I would be infiltrating the party and getting better people elected who can eventually force out Tony Blair.

Sitting on your backside whining is not going to do anything. All it means is you're giving up and your enemies get free reign.

 

[blamblam]

No I'm not. Who told you that?

I heard you're writing research into how outsiders (i.e. morons who talk shite) get treated on internet forums. I believe it too. I do not believe a real person would come up with the stuff you do.

 

[phildwyer]

I heard you're writing research into how outsiders (i.e. morons who talk shite) get treated on internet forums. I believe it too.

In that case, you are a cretin.

 

[Ryazan]

I'm non-aligned, but in spirit I am close to the CPGB (M-L)

 

[articul8]

in spirit I am close to the CPGB (M-L)

what? you know both of them ?

 

[Ryazan]

Brar & Rule?

 

[Ryazan]

Mind you the ridicule you got from a Workers Power bloke over your articulation of anarchism doesn't give me much hope for you sunshine.

 

[blamblam]

In that case, you are a cretin.

ha ha

 

[districtline]

i'm with rosa luxemburg, but definitely not a leninist.