Comrades, you perhaps kenna what my views on left unity are, but if I am also correct, then I have been only vague and at times contradictory about my opinion on it, and if I think it can work. So, can this be achieved?
Well, to this point comrades, I have some news. I am now a proud subscriber to three publications you would not expect me to be: The Militant, of the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers Vanguard of the International Communist League (Spartacist League), and the Socialist Alternative/ Socialist World of its namesake party. Thus I ask again: is left unity achievable? Yes comrades, it is. But this is unfortunately not an example of such. This is rather what I would term 'left collaboration' or 'inter-comradery'. I believe that left unity refers only to parties, organisations, or tendencies which join in a coalition or alliance, or merge together.
Left unity should not have energy actively expended on it, as it can happen only naturally. However, we can and ought to more greatly facilitate it by practising left collaboration/ comradery as individuals. I feel that it is my duty to aid my fellow Trotskyist, anarchist, and Maoist comrades, even if I do have relevant reservations on their lines or tactics, for by being a representative of the proletariat, I am obligated to do so. Let me stipulate that genuine attempts at criticism should not be taken as un-comradely. Criticism is one of the greatest tools in the Marxist kit.
The above is also why I am a strong supporter and contributor of the People's Biblium. A library where intellectual comrades of all tendencies can speak to each other, and forstand each other's political developments of theory, would be a large leap for any goal of a united leftist kind, and quite poßibly the closest thing to realistic left unity.
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