Against sectarianism

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday June 14, 2002 13:39 by Serious about changing the world

We must all share a common ideological perspective.

We must all share a common ideological perspective.

Perhaps we could publish a weekly national newspaper aimed at thick working class people who can't read that well, a tacky coffee table magazine for their more well educated comrades and an academic journal for the true intellectual leaders of our movement.

We could stand on the High street, in the rain trying to persuade people to sign petitions that we have no intention of handing in.

We could organise large public meetings with elite panels of liberal academics, journalists, politicians and trade union bureaucrats applauding their tedious speeches whilst privately disavowing their reformism.

We could learn to forget the events in history which are difficult to reconcile with our ideological straight jacket. We could use history as a way of proving that we are always right rather than as an opportunity to learn how we have gone wrong.

We could find ways of describing every defeat as a victory and ignore those who suggest trying differnt ways of working.

We could attack people who work differently or prioritise issues differently for being sectarians and distracting workers from the one true struggle.

We could see every person who is prepared to work with us as a potential new recruit rather than respecting that some people might not share our perspective.

We could hijack every project we get invovled with for our own ends and leave behind a trail of resentment.

Best of all, we could do absolutely nothing effective to tear assunder the the oppressive, exploitative and alienating society we live in, and spend our time complaining about bickering on the Irish indymedia newswire.