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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by gampleman on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:35AM (#24894623)
A lot of the Scottish intellectuals I've talked to where pretty explicitly Marxist (including, but not limited to, my supervisor who had a poster of Lenin in his office). Also I think current SNP politics are pretty close to Marxism-Leninsim.
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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by vidarh on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:36AM (#24894636)
Yes, you can find Marxists in the UK. That does not at all change what I wrote. The narrative of Marxism as some big scary bogeyman in UK politics is an alt-right trope. Suggesting the SNP, which is only moderately left wing even by UK standards, is close to Marxism-Leninism is equally ludicrous.

Put another way: If Marxism had any prominent support in the UK, RLB would have been outflanked on the left in the Labour leadership elections, rather than losing to someone on her right.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by arethuza on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:45AM (#24894683)
"Also I think current SNP politics are pretty close to Marxism-Leninsim."

Care to share which policies those might be?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by arethuza on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:43AM (#24896054)
It's not like the Socialist party in Scotland are fans of the SNP:

https://scottishsocialistparty.org/?s=snp&submit=Search

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