Socalist International

[Reznov]

I have a friend who plans on joining this group.

I have read some bad feelings towards the SI, saying they are much more centrist and reactionaries than actual Revolutionary leftists.

I don't know though, they seem ok I think?

[Reznov]

Where should we as Communists and Anarchists stand on this? (In your opinion?)

[Wanted Man]

How is that even possible? It's just the international organisation of all the social-democratic parties in the world. Your friend would have to join the national party associated with the SI. I have no idea what country your friend lives in, nor do I have any idea why he would want to join a social-democratic party, but whatever.

[Q]

I think your friend might be refering to another group, perhaps the international socialists (a franchise of the SWP UK in many countries)? Like WM said, the SI is a (mostly paper) international of established social-democratic parties.

[Tommy4ever]

The Socialist International does not only include ex-social democrat parties like Labour and the SPD, it also, very recently, expelled the parties of Ben Ali (in Tunisia) and Mubarak (in Egypt) .....

[Red Future]

and China is now looking towards the Socialist International too

[Tjis]

The Socialist International also has former IMF head honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn's party, the PS as a member.
Wim Duisenberg, the former president of the European Central Bank was also a member of a SI party (the PvdA, labor party of the Netherlands).

I wonder why they still pretend they're socialists.

[Hit The North]

I wonder why they still pretend they're socialists.

In order to discredit the historical mission of socialism and sow confusion among the masses as to what socialism actually means, I guess.