Comment by pjc50
7 months ago
After he went to fight for the left in Catalonia, and had to flee Catalonia for being the wrong kind of Marxist, he believed that the best thing for the left was to keep out actual Stalinists in order to preserve freedom for socialism.
Always funny when people not on the left talk about left-wing stuff. You’re not even part of the in-group.
A former partner of mine is a literal communist; I forget which kind of communist exactly, but the Life Of Brian thing about them constantly splitting into even more niche groups and being more angry with the other lefty groups than they are with the political right, is 100% correct.
There's a TV interview of her in the lead up to 2016 saying Trump would be better than Clinton. (Not that she liked Trump, that's different, just that she thought Clinton was worse). Still shares Demexit memes on FB, last I saw.
Actual, literal, communist. Was part of the Socialist Worker's Party in the UK just when that exploded.
Sooooo… who's the in-group?
That name is a Trotskyist party name. In my humble opinion, left-wing means being against the hegemonic status quo. While you described a [European] stereotype/cliche.
Politics and life is about your actions and output than what you nominally say out loud. “literal communist” is a label. Labels in isolation are not meant for serious convos. The actions of many Trots is and was to collaborate with the right, collaborate with western hegemony, attack the left, and trash actual existing leftism in the world.
If your ex is a Nazi leftist (Strasserites etc) or a communist Zionist who loves apartheid you’d presumably understand how useless political labels can be and not wonder “Sooooo… who's the in-group?”
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