i think many members of the
i think many members of the Socialist Party have learned is never to trust in language and how political views are expressed. You may well be right that some still feel that there is a potential with Left Unity for genuine expression and i am too much of a cynic but all i see is confusion.http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/organisation/left-unity/116 “A revolutionary party is not the vanguard of the class by virtue of its ideas, but instead revolutionaries aim to relate to the vanguard of the class, namely its most advanced, conscious elements, and unite them in a common organisation.” This is quite meaningless to me.We appear to have the “vanguard of the class” and it is not because of the ideas that they represent that they are the vanguard but because they are defined to be “in struggle” (“strikes and occupations to anti-cuts campaigns and bedroom tax protests” ) But aren’t we all involved in one way or another with the class struggle? Those holding the most reactionary of politics of my postal colleagues were often at the fore-front of our strikes. It is not a life-style choice but an objective reality for workers that we cannot hide from. And the distinguishing factor is a differing consciousness specifically because of ideas and not simply of the action that is engaged in. It is acknowledged in this contradictory paragraph “…the task of revolutionaries is to win those sections of the class engaged in struggle to revolutionary methods and ideas, not through abstract propaganda, or by somehow manoeuvring themselves into leading positions in the movement, but by uniting with them in common organisations with common objectives, and winning them to a revolutionary programme through argument…” (my emphasis)Anyways we can always hope against expectation that miraculous events may transpire within Left Unity and the Peoples Assembly. Again this should probably be on the Left Unity thread.