Being a Londoner, I’ll vote for the Socialist Party of Great Britain. They may be purely propagandist, but at least they’re honest in their propaganda. There is no nationalism, dilution and compromise in their socialism. I have problems with their parliamentary road to socialism, but support their view of a world community based on common ownership and democratic control, their opposition to Leninist vanguardism and their view that the working class has to want and understand socialism before it can win it.
After decades of voting for lesser evils, class traitors, idiots and muddle-heads, at long last I can vote for something I really want. It may be a wasted vote, but no more wasted than a vote for Labour, No2EU or the SLP.
(Letter in the Weekly Worker.)
The old Communist Party eh? Surprised they printed it.
ReplyDeleteI read the rest of the letter and he slags off the Stalinist No2EU and the (Scargill) SLP too!
No, it's not the old Communist Party. It's an odd Stalinist sect which stole the old CP's name when it changed itself into the Democratic Left. The real continuity CP is the CPB who still publish the Mourning Star and who have gone into alliance for these elections with the ex-Militants (who've tried to steal our name) under the title of "No2EU".
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure it's right to characterise the CPGB/WW people as Stalinists.
ReplyDeleteThough they have their historical roots in the New Communist Party, it would be fair to say that they've shifted over the years to a position where they have serious criticisms of the official communist tradition.
I guess they see themselves in the tradition of Leninism/Bolshevism circa 1917-24, hence their decision a few years back to reprint article after article from the early British Communist Press.
Just my take on matters.