The only thing sadder than the alphabet spaghetti of various left groups, from anarchist, to trotskyist, to stalinists etc (there could be over 100 in the UK alone), are those who pretend they aren't interested but take delight in all this kind of rubbish. I very much doubt there are even 10,000 people in all these groups put together. But they are virtually all the same and swimming around in an ever dwindling pool. The bigger groups such as the SWP and Socialist Party take pleasure that they are bigger than the Revolutionary Marxist Democratic Workers Communist Proletarian Internationalist Committee for Committee Group, but in reality they are all becoming ever more irrelevant and obscure. Personally I still very much believe in socialist and marxist ideas and it's a shame the shower we have now are what represent those ideas making it all a bit of a joke. You only have to look at the anti-cuts movement where we had three national anti-cuts organisations, with almost identical politics, all controlled by tiny left groups behind the scenes. At a local level various left groups did far more damage than good in trying to control and brand local groups and now we are in the situation where the anti-cuts movement is in a dire state. You had Right to Work, Coalition of the Resitance and the brilliantly named National Shop Stewards Committee All-Britain Anti Cuts Federation. If there had been one national federation and groups had worked together in a constructive way I am convinced we would have a far, far stronger anti-cuts movement than we have now. Instead we have three dwindling national anti-cuts groups, but heh ho, at least they have the correct position on some minor political position that no-one gives a shit about. The government must be laughing their heads off.
And in the trade unions the left groups go on and on with their mantra of rank and file, but never do anything practical to make it happen, instead just trying to flog their paper or promote their latest front organisation. In UNISON, my union, we have the useless UNISON United Left (probably not more than a couple of hundred members in the whole country), run by the SWP, and then other groups such as the Socialist Party not bothering to try and set up a grass roots network at all. All the time we are getting shafted by the bureaucracy in the union who go hand in hand with the TUC and government. It's a sad state of affairs. We even had two left candidates against Dave Prentis at the last general secretary election, you really couldn't make it up. I forget what the political difference was between them that made it so crucial that they both stand, I think it was difference how many cans of beans were sold by a support group in the General Strike of 1926.
your house must be full of them 
