The Garbage Disposal Unit

I don't know - I came to terms with that a long time ago, when I first joined the board and, as an ostensible Trotskyist, found myself agreeing with Marxists-Leninists more often than with other Trotskyists and "Trotskyists". I know the SL/ICL consider most anarchists to be petit-bourgeois democrats, but honestly, coming from the Trotskyist milieu, that's beyond throwing bricks in glass houses. That's using thermobaric weapons in glass houses.

Actually, if some things fall into place, I might end up writing for the same newspaper, er, thing, as some anarchists. I'm not particularly perturbed by that. Better them than our national Titoists.

TAT

I want it to be a place of forceful criticism and angry debate, because that displays passion and exuberance. I don't want it to be a place where people's middle class sensibilities are pandered to because they can't handle others being blunt.

Than maybe you should help users to understand where your coming from, because a lot of posters on Revleft don't get this "ethos" from your posts. And in fact just reading that changed a great deal about how I feel about you and the comments you publish.

You call it petty and self-righteous, but that's because you're stuck in some bullshit middle-class mentality where in order to have your remarks taken seriously they have to be constructed and confined within a certain manner and structure of articulation.

I think people are capable of determining for themselves what is and is not a useful medium without having you patronise them. If people want to use a thread for useful information and perspectives they will do so, because the people that use the boards aren't stupid. If they don't want to do that, then they won't.

And yeah, I have real enemies in my life. They were for a time pompous jerks who thought I was academically stunted because I spoke with a northern accent and used a different syntax and sometimes said the word 'fuck' in everyday conversation. It turned out I was smarter than all of the fuckers, so I would pull back on the reins of your own self-righteousness and give people a break.