So your answer is yes — you

September 16, 2012 at 5:16 pm #86606

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So your answer is yes — you are in favour of boring from within. I’m not – on the grounds that I think it dishonest to join an organisation whose aims one does not agree with.Such membership of course might also be seen to be incompatible with membership of the Socialist Party.

alanjjohnstone wrote:

My view has been pretty much consistent and has been expressed on our blog and by several posts on this list (which i note from a previous post, Hollyhead, you are deign to read due to their word-length).

If by “deign” [=think fit, condescend] you mean “reluctant” then yes that’s true. I did, however, read your 2,900 word posting but gave up about a quarter of the way through the 14,000 word link you provided. I don’t consider it compulsory to complete such tasks. It’s true that I have pleaded for brevity (both here and on other party forums). I am of the opinion that logorrhoea to which many Party members are prone makes for poor communication of socialist ideas. Excessive length fails to persuade.Internet forums are not (in my opinion) the place for lengthy expositions of the party case for socialism. Better by far to have short, snappy, exchanges. Three thousand word postings are not the way forward — they’re difficult for many of us oldies to read I suspect.