>>2583387Call me a liberal if you want, but I draw the line at LARPer. Every line of serious work that I have written since 2016 has been written, directly or indirectly, against LARPing and for practical action, as I understand it.
You chide "autistics and BPDs" for "never tak[ing] organizing seriously" but tell me: who is really taking organizing seriously? name names. Having a party that puts out inane "demands" on behalf of a working class that doesn't know it exists and wouldn't follow it if they did is not "serious" organizing, it is LARPing, it is self-indulgence far worse than anything a mentally ill weirdo on twitter could conjure. Seriousness requires being oriented around practical action, not around duplicating the structure of your favorite foreign/historical communist party in different conditions so that
you, the true
alid of Marx, can be general secretary and set the line.
>>2583391You are falling into an aesthetic trap, transhistorically imagining miners as normal people and service workers with blue hair as weirdoes. You take no account of age, no account of how little people care if you have dangerhair and piercings, no account of how little these aesthetic things matter in a world where we barely bother with subcultural uniforms. If you have your revolution, it is going to look ridiculous. We are living in a ridiculous age. Even then: you ignore just how demonized the miners were, or how much class spite exists in these isles. They look nice and normal in your 40 year old photos, sure, but that doesn't mean a British normie circa 1984 is going to see them as anything other than uppity communist scum.
With that said: The organized Labour left were a gaggle of liberals and cowards dogmatically opposed to communism, barely interested in socialism, and only briefly flirting with social democracy in the face of the 1970s energy crisis. The miners were fighting to save a dying industry* and, at a push, to get Labour's 1974 manifesto implemented. Not to bring about Soviet power.
You are living in the aftermath of their caution, their excess, and their blundering love for one of the world's shittest "social democratic for 25 minutes" parties. It is harsh: their complete and utter failure i
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