gnome wrote: freetimes3x

 You’re making exceedingly heavy weather of all this.  The phrase in question was:-“A comment made earlier in this thread “that socialist consciousness is……more prevalent outside the party than inside it” is just another bald assertion without, unfortunately, a single shred of evidence advanced to support it.””Another” means “being one more or more of the same; further; additional”; it was an unspecific remark intended to cover the many occasions when there have been assertions made in posts without corroboration.  It did not, neither was it intended to be, a reference, direct or otherwise, to anything you had said.