Greetings

[Clarion]

Hello there. I'm a writer (although I don't earn enough from that to live by yet, so I'm eking out a living with what little work I can get).


Politically I'm probably best described as a classical marxist, not out of doctrinaire purism but rather out of simply not agreeing with any other generally recognised attempts to codify specific schools of thought within the marxist tradition. I take a rather dim view of moral socialism. I'm sure the rest will out over time.

[Art Vandelay]

Welcome from a fellow (aspiring) writer! Who would you most ascribe your views to (if you don't mind me asking)? Good to see we don't got another moralist signing up here, there are enough of them already.

[Clarion]

To be honest no particularly good answer comes to mind right now. I have many influences, of course, from a broad range of reading, but I have difficulty identifying particular figures to whom I can trace my present views.


Two years ago my political views wouldn't have been unusual in any of the small leninist parties in the UK (indeed, not long before I had been a member of one, although I won't mention which) and I could have listed off a bunch of the likely suspects as my main influences, but now I feel there are few I would agree with enough to single out. In many ways my current thinking has been defined by specific criticisms of such thinkers and has been fleshed out in discussion and debate with various comrades.


I could tell you what my views on any particular topic are but I'm afraid I can't really offer a list of names as a clue.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Politically I'm probably best described as a classical marxist, not out of doctrinaire purism but rather out of simply not agreeing with any other generally recognised attempts to codify specific schools of thought within the marxist tradition. I take a rather dim view of moral socialism. I'm sure the rest will out over time.


Two years ago my political views wouldn't have been unusual in any of the small leninist parties in the UK (indeed, not long before I had been a member of one, although I won't mention which) and I could have listed off a bunch of the likely suspects as my main influences, but now I feel there are few I would agree with enough to single out. In many ways my current thinking has been defined by specific criticisms of such thinkers and has been fleshed out in discussion and debate with various comrades.

Have you checked out the Weekly Worker newspaper, by chance?