Right, I'm going to take this in good faith and treat your posts on this thread seriously. I suspect this will turn out to be a mistake but at least I'm trying.
The thing is Phil, when it's put under any kind of scrutiny it turns out that your pro- and anti- capitalist categorisations turn out to map almost exactly onto what I expect most on here would think of as left or right.
Your claim that people who are racist, etc cannot be anticapitalist is an example of this - it's perfectly possible to rightly hold capitalist social relations responsible for the problems we face and to believe white people are inherently superior to black people, that homosexuality is a crime against good which should be punishable by death and a whole host of other bigoted views. Obviously the fact that you don't want these people to be considered on the same side of the divide as you isn't a bad thing at all but it seems to me that, if we're defining politics solely in terms of pro- or anti- capitalist, their exclusion from the anti-capitalist group is purely arbitrary and their inclusion in the pro-capitalist group plain wrong.
Seems to me that you're just trying to make pro- and anti- capitalist fit what others would see as left and right, albeit maybe with a more exclusive definition of left (or anti-capitalist).
I don't think there's any value in this exercise to be honest and it strikes me that if you really wanted to replace them the terms pro- and anti- working class would be better - since you can credibly exclude racists etc since their views would divide and weaken the working class. In fact I'd probably have a fair bit of sympathy for that kind of argument.
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