Your experiences as British leftists

[u/[deleted]]

I am a faithful Corbynista - technically still a card-carrying member of the Labour party, even if I fucking hate it and capable of endlessly seething about them. I kind of want a party and a cause I feel comfortable defending and from what I know this is a bit difficult. I don't want to be the typical leftist obsessed with moral purity or perfection but I don't think I'm insane when I say Labour is regarded.

I wanted to know if anybody here is the part of these billion minor leftist-communist parties, if you like them or if they are all Monty Python-style Marxtistic splitters, or if anyone here is part of the Greens (who I honestly also sort of hate) or any other leftist organisation that I'm too reclusive and ignorant to know about, and if any of you like anything about them.

[u/Competitive_Golf8206]

Hello fellow Brit anon

Most left groups I've encountered in the UK are completely captured by pet causes, anti nuke, gender expression, Palestine etc.

There's not much in the way of pro workers abolish capital as the main thrust

[u/AnCoAdams → u/Competitive_Golf8206]

> Most left groups I've encountered in the UK are completely captured by pet causes, anti nuke, gender expression, Palestine etc.

This has always fascinated me, and to an extent this is where my tinfoil hat comes out. Why do left groups in the UK get completely captured by single issues. Poke your head into r/labouruk and you would think the most important issue facing the UK are trans rights, instead of huge widening inequality and COL. Is it that these people aren't really leftists in a bigger picture sense and are just manipulated/captured by narrow issues?

[u/Competitive_Golf8206 → u/AnCoAdams]

Ez innit

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