Clause 1 Socialism

One leftie hobby is to try to categorise other lefties by dividing them up into different political boxes as 'Trots', 'Brownites', 'Blairites', 'Real Labour', 'New Labour', 'Compassites' and so on. While this is occasionally helpful, often it serves to create artificial differences between people who agree on a lot more than they disagree on.

Personally, if I must get categorised, I am a Clause I Socialist. I am a socialist because I believe in working to create a society where people contribute according to their means and receive according to their needs, and where co-operation is more important than competition. And I am a Clause I socialist because Clause 1 of the Labour Party is that the purpose of Labour is to "to organise and maintain in Parliament and in the country a political Labour Party", or as one comrade summarised it, 'the point of the Labour Party is to win elections.'