I have joined The Greens because it seems to be the only Left political voice in parliament and I can’t see a revolution happening quite yet.

Yeah fair enough, I’m glad to see all left groups growing. Good on ya for getting involved.

And as always I’m of the opinion groups should work together on topics where they agree, and I do see that happening on a number of occasions at protests/rallies that the Socialists and the Greens go to, which I think is great!

There was a socialist group in the area I used to live in Sydney but they seemed to be so formulaic in their communication, it sounded (to me) like they were in the early twentieth century. If you can’t connect on a human level then spouting in-group speak is not going to attract people.

Yeah this is annoying. I agree with you, personally I think (and is the main focus of VS policy) we’re most effective in our communication when we focus on the problems of today, and identify why they are (i.e. housing crisis, cost of living, etc is primarily so bad because of all the profit seeking and that’s a feature of capitalism).

There are all sorts of people identifying as socialist out there. There’s even some people (luckily not visibly part of our party) who think China is socialist and to be emulated, which most in VS think is absurd.

“Left infighting” exists because “the Left” really is not a monolith haha, I really can’t reconcile with people who think that Mao and Stalin were top blokes lol. We’ll just show up to the same actions from time to time where our goals align

All the best with your launch mate :)