Abstaining from bad sects

Bob Morris on Jun 22, 2010, 5:26 am

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 [...]

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If this debacle doesn’t wake up the British Left, absolutely nothing will

Bob Morris on Jun 9, 2009, 9:15 am

Marxsite lets loose

The outcome of the county council and Euro elections means that the British left – the left to the left of New Labour – has to wake up and break out of its dire sectarian, bureaucratic and factional mindsets. Nothing is more shameful than the lack of of united left [...]

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