Zoroaster

That's absolutely true, however, as someone who has had a life-long anxiety issues, sometimes I just start wondering...

Well, yes, radicals are pretty much exclusively atheist or anti-theist, I haven't met anyone seriously engaged with such politics and holding some religious beliefs. I think acceptance of materialism necessarily leads one to reject any religion whatsoever.

Well, no wonder the left is scourged with anxiety and depression.

To be fair, my knowledge on the field of Russian Anarchists/Nihilists is pretty shallow and Nechayev is there only because I happen to like and being able to relate to some quotes of his.

I would consider myself both an existential nihilist as well as a moral one, although, I am not too deeply familiar with the philosophical critique of nihilism.

A semi-rhetorical question - what are the alternatives to nihilism that the left can embrace intellectually?

Yes, why, doesn't acceptance of the materialist analysis of the radical left necessarily lead one to become a nihilist?

However, if you are asking whether I am a nihilist on an emotional level, then, well, yes, but to an extent. It was worse before becoming politically conscious.

Err... you didn't. If anyone did, it was definitely me. Sorry. I thought I was being funny, perhaps I wasn't. It just seems you equate the Communist Left with Bordigism, when the vast majority of Left Comms I know aren't Bordigists, they're either from the PCInt and its fellow-groups (like the CWO) in the ICT (the Birdigists split from them in 1952), or they're from the ICC which descends from the Bilan group.

No.

To quote, paraphrase and expound on what I said earlier in this conversation...

In the Italian Left there were three main currents - those around Bordiga, Damen and magazine Bilan. The ICT is descended from the group around Onorato Damen. They certainly support some of Bordiga's positions, but they aren't Bordigists.

What is it with you and the Bordigists? They're probably the smallest and least relevant (outside of Italy) of all the Left Communist currents, and that includes the Council Communists who effectively don't exist any more. There are literally about 6 proper Bordigists in the English-speaking world. .

The fact that Remus Bleys is on one-man multi-media Invariant Crusades shouldn't blind you to the fact that the Bordigists are tiny in the non-Italian-speaking parts of the world, and in Italy, they're so crisis-ridden that there are currently about 5 'International Communist Parties'.

I'm not a Bordigist, so I wouldn't recommend joining any of the four or five versions of the ICP.

At the moment the ICC seems to have taken what I regard as a strange and worrying turn towards withdrawal from intervention and indeed discussion with other groups and individuals.

If I were to join any organisation of the Communist Left at the present moment it would be the ICT.

Yes, I agree with that, though I'm hesitant to use the term 'state', as it's a state unlike any other in history (being a state of the majority not a minority state).

Yeah, that annoys me too, especially when people say 'Marxists believe that socialism is a stage between capitalism and communism'... no, we don't.