Note to self

Being a radical revolutionary is not all selling papers and learning the latest edition of party notes by rote - oh no - there's much more to it. Much, much more.

Here are six maybes that I need to think about.

1. Maybe a ball breaking polemic designed to crush ideological deviants into dust does not do as much to build the movement as I might hope.

2. Maybe placing a sign around my neck announcing my formal division with everyone else in the room (like holding a paper on my chest or announcing my affiliation to some fee paying sect before I make my contribution) does not help build solidarity and trust.

3. Maybe ensuring my group has a 'high profile' in the campaign I'm involved in actually announces to those I'm working with that my intentions are not unamibuous and I am in the campaign for what I can get out of it.

4. Maybe a robust ideological debate to one person is brain numbing pedantry to others, and effectively places a large neon sign over my head that reads "never disagree with this person! avoid all political discussion!"

5. Maybe jumping on a new attender at a radical meeting in the hope of recruiting them to my bit of the movement will not bring about long term results - only short term point scoring.

6. Maybe I should consider whether the interests of the movement and the interests of my centralist organisation are necessarily the same all of the time - and if not - perhaps I should consider which of these I owe my loyalty to first and foremost.

And once I've thought about them I will write a five volume thesis on why I'm correct about everything. That'll sort things out.