Thoughts on Communist Students?

[The Idler]

CS issue 11: Time for Marxism! (http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=7132)

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I skimmed through the website but liked what I saw.

[L.J.Solidarity]

Any freshers’ fair in the land will have one, two or more clots of far-leftists
competing for what amounts to the same constituency. The very fact of
this competition reduces the size of the constituency, of course, by making us all look a bit ridiculous.

That's a funny thing to say when half your paper consists of polemics against other groups.

[Arlekino]

What about middle age communist whom are not students? Well I suppose:) I don't take this issue seriously.

[Devrim]

That's a funny thing to say when half your paper consists of polemics against other groups.

Which is hardly surprising when you consider that it is a CPGB front.

Devrim

[bricolage]

Because I'm sure fresh faced students new to the world of left politics have the various differences betweem xyz trot groups as their primary concern...

[Die Neue Zeit]

The comrade who made the first comment in the link made a very solid one! :thumbup1:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

The problem with student groups at university is that they will attract/not attract two kinds of students:

a) the first group will know about revolutionary politics enough to know whether a group is fronting for whomever, and will join/be put off accordingly.

b) the second group will not know that much,but will be keen, and will join a group not knowing whether they are trot, anarchist, M-L or whatever, and will thus not really be entering into a fair exchange, since the 'party' will have a knowledge premium over the student. To me, this is how the SWP have gotten a lot of their younger membership in recent years, which becomes blatantly obvious if you talk to many (but not all) of their cadre.

[Grenzer]

The Spartacist League sometimes comes on my campus. At first I didn't even notice them really. They would always be talking about the need for free on demand abortion, which made me think they were just a pro life group at first.

As for actually student communists, my thoughts are this: Not good. I don't know many, but most seem to have a very superficial level of knowledge and lack the desire to learn more.