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A lot of the Scottish intellectuals I've talked to where pretty explicitly Marxist (including, but not limited to, my supervisor who had a poster of Lenin in hi
by gampleman 6y ago
A lot of the Scottish intellectuals I've talked to where pretty explicitly Marxist (including, but not limited to, my supervisor who had a poster of Lenin in his office). Also I think current SNP politics are pretty close to Marxism-Leninsim.
- vidarh 6y agoYes, you can find Marxists in the UK. That does not at all change what I wrote. The narrative of Marxism as some big scary bogeyman in UK politics is an alt-right trope. Suggesting the SNP, which is only moderately left wing even by UK standards, is close to Marxism-Leninism is equally ludicrous. Put another way: If Marxism had any prominent support in the UK, RLB would have been outflanked on the left in the Labour leadership elections, rather than losing to someone on her right.
- arethuza 6y ago"Also I think current SNP politics are pretty close to Marxism-Leninsim." Care to share which policies those might be?
- arethuza 6y agoIt's not like the Socialist party in Scotland are fans of the SNP: https://scottishsocialistparty.org/?s=snp&submit=Search https://scottishsocialistparty.org/?s=snp&submit=Search