Here's the thing. If you were on the Left in the UK in the 1980s, you were powerless - Thatcherism had won the political argument. 2/
In my misguided youth, I sort of participated in a (successful) collective action to "no platform" John Carlisle. http://bit.ly/13o7WBe 1/
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So you kind of looked for little, local victories, expressions of resistance and defiance. It didn't really have much to do with... 3/
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the specific issues, or even wider political principles. It was tribal, and it was about winning - just occasionally.
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@MarkWindmill Definitely not now, and, actually, my politics shifted away from the standard Leftist stuff very early in my 20s.
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@PhilosophyExp I was the opposite - liberal, rational, reasonable, inclusive, pragmatic . Now I've come to see the world *is* them & us.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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