On: UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'

[ben_w]

My actually-a-Communist former partner will take great exception to any description of the current UK politicians as "Marxist".

Well, except perhaps Jeremy Corbyn.

[dfawcus → ben_w]

Look up our current PMs history.

[ben_w → dfawcus]

Marxist definition: class struggle, abolition of capitalist property, collective ownership, systemic change.

Starmer’s record: social-democrat, pragmatic, incremental reforms, accepts market economy.

Why he's not Marxist: avoids ideological rigidity, no revolutionary agenda, shifted toward center-left, compromises for governance.

I suggest reading the Communist Manifesto, so you know what to argue against if nothing else. It's, y'know, free.

[dfawcus → ben_w]

Good for you.

However many of us don't believe he has actually changed in his views since his days editing, and writing articles for Socialist Alternatives.