I don't mean what I simply call myself. I mean if I'm referring to the group of people that are my comrades (including me). If I say, "we are socialists" I don't want my cool ancom friends to think I'm excluding them or being sectarian.
Basically, I agree that the term, "leftist" is easily abused and not that useful, but I also have reason to not use communist or socialist as a replacement because I still want something a little bit more inclusive. I don't actually have any good substitute, I tend to just describe what tendencies I know are represented.
I'm in ancom country, I'm the ML outlier and they use the term talkie unironically, I'm already doing left unity by working with them and I'm more likely to point out the difference at this point.
Haha I know the feeling though I'm often around trots and Socdems (I do get commie reprieves though). Also a good number of ancoms that are 95% of the way to ML.
I call myself a communist because that describes me. It's not excluding people to not describe yourself as something you aren't.
I don't mean what I simply call myself. I mean if I'm referring to the group of people that are my comrades (including me). If I say, "we are socialists" I don't want my cool ancom friends to think I'm excluding them or being sectarian.
Basically, I agree that the term, "leftist" is easily abused and not that useful, but I also have reason to not use communist or socialist as a replacement because I still want something a little bit more inclusive. I don't actually have any good substitute, I tend to just describe what tendencies I know are represented.
I'm in ancom country, I'm the ML outlier and they use the term talkie unironically, I'm already doing left unity by working with them and I'm more likely to point out the difference at this point.
Haha I know the feeling though I'm often around trots and Socdems (I do get commie reprieves though). Also a good number of ancoms that are 95% of the way to ML.