TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:Why

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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:

Why shouldn’t George Galloway see the errors of his ways at some future date? We are going to need a lot of personalities before we get socialism. I seem to remember Cde Lawrence had a big personality and look what he did for socialism.

That’s exactly the point he would have to see the error of his ways, a luxury that John Lennon doesn’t have. Imagine is a song which is about communism but that does not mean that it’s author has to be a socialist. Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, Hoxhaists, even traditional social democrats and plenty of other left wing of capital ideologies all advocate a classless, stateless society but that does not mean that their politics or way of going about getting there means that they should be considered socialists. Lennon’s politics were one toe in reformist and one toe in the revolutionary. He wasn’t a Marxist as we are, he could perhaps be called an anarchist because that’s a much more broadly defined term with many different stances. Also I’ve got friends who are christian conservatives, I’ve got a friend who’s a Maoist but their politics do not influence me. With Lennon it’s obvious he didn’t know much of anything about theory and was easily led by friends and aquaintances into supporting bourgeouis and utopian causes