which actually sort of began this definitional frenzy -- would a Spart be a wingnut, or would only a wacky ardently individual anarchist (or the tee-shirt despising/christian/antiDMV dude) count as such? This all just makes me more wildly curious than ever. There is an anarchist household which (I think) functions more or less as an affinity group and calls itself for DASW purposes, the wingnuts -- affectionately, I have thought.
Oh, and this has no place in this comment, but I'm too lazy to go back, so I must get in my sectarian digs HERE -- the completely Trot bound nature of the British far left was ASTONISHING to me when I lived there in '86. Even though I had been carefully inoculated agaist Maoism as a child, at least I KNEW that there were other tendencies than Trotskyism, growing up in the States (let's not get into how odd it is to grow up knowing there is a tendency called Trotskyism, and knowing exactly which micro variant of it is RIGHT, goddamnit). In Britain -- nothing. Nothing but Trots and the CP as far as the eye could see... except a handful of Albanians, I think. Who at least sang the right version of the Internationale -- sorry, raptis, darling.
See, but this was my exact question...
Oh, and this has no place in this comment, but I'm too lazy to go back, so I must get in my sectarian digs HERE -- the completely Trot bound nature of the British far left was ASTONISHING to me when I lived there in '86. Even though I had been carefully inoculated agaist Maoism as a child, at least I KNEW that there were other tendencies than Trotskyism, growing up in the States (let's not get into how odd it is to grow up knowing there is a tendency called Trotskyism, and knowing exactly which micro variant of it is RIGHT, goddamnit). In Britain -- nothing. Nothing but Trots and the CP as far as the eye could see... except a handful of Albanians, I think. Who at least sang the right version of the Internationale -- sorry,