On leaving PSL

(Reader EnCee on why he left PSL. Promoted from the comments to my Abstaining from bad sects post yesterday. The image is of my choosing.) This is just a little blurb on my own departure from the PSL after 6+ years. There is so much to get into, but I promised Bob I would [...]

Abstaining from bad sects

Sectarianism, left cadre organizations, and ultra-leftism too often create a squabbling, ineffective, sometimes fanatical left, filled with schisms and splinter groups. Chip Berlet explores this in an article written in 1999 but just as true now.

An excerpt.

Ultra-leftism is an egocentric form of mythopoetic martyrdom whereby practitioners anoint themselves as the beleaguered guardians [...]

American Leftist surveys the SWP wreckage in Britain

Recently there was a split, purges, and resignations, with much resultant gnashing of teeth in the Socialist Workers Party in Britain. SWP is a Leninist formation that fancies itself a vanguard party, ready to lead the workers to the inevitable proletarian victory. However, this can only happen after the masses have realized the correctness of [...]

The International Socialist Organization vs. the Party for Socialism and Liberation over China

The International Socialist Organization just whopped the Party for Socialism and Liberation upside the head for their support of the Chinese government crackdown in Tiananmen Square (because it supposedly supported socialism.) PSL fired back with a scathing article slamming ISO. Much sound and fury will no doubt result, with party bigwigs on both sides [...]

McKinney gets Green Party nomination, PSL getting ballot status

This ABC “News” article on McKinney is an attack op-ed pretending to be news. Much of the rest of MSM isn’t much better. Paint McKinney as a loon, insult and marginalize her. What are they so afraid of? That she might get a few hundred thousand votes?

Sadly, the progressive Left managed to fracture yet [...]