Some potentially unpopular opinions I have:

• Identity and narrative are critically important topics for any left mass movement, and aren't discussed nearly enough in spaces like this. This is especially true considering the current collapse of the establishment cultural narrative, which presents both an opportunity and an enourmous risk . If you've seen Hypernormalisation, than you probably understand what I'm talking about.

• We don't have nearly enough discussion about our own personal experiences and emotions, and how they relate to how we see the world. It's perfectly normal for these things to influence our views, of course, but I think that if we don't self-analyze and discuss these things, it potentially creates a toxic environment for ourselves and others, and potentially leaves us open to manipulation.

• Even if it has no chance of succeeding as a means to achieve socialism, electoralism is still useful for the following reasons:

1. It provides a platform for organizing and spreading ideas.
2. It provides us a way to force a public confrontation with the ruling establishment and expose their hypocrisy in the eyes of the public, as Lenin has talked about.
3. It provides a front for more radical elements to do various activities like those I just mentioned, and gives them a sense of public legitimacy they might not otherwise have. This is why you had both IRA and Sinn Fein, PLO and Black September, etc.