Submitted October 1 to comments section of WSWS Relaunch Announcement page The WSWS deleted my comment and it was never posted. Hi folks, I read with interest your announcement of the relaunch of your website. I should probably (briefly) introduce myself. I have a technical background, and have been a student of the internet since before it was the internet. The first protest I went to was against the war in Vietnam. I became a serious activist a few years later, was drawn to Maoism, and then witnessed the collapse of the small group I was part of in 1993. The main focus of my work, since that time, has been as a theorist with a focus on (1) the nature of economics and politics in future post-capitalist society, and (2) the use of the internet and social media by the non-reformist left. I often read quite good articles on your website, although the majority of my online interactions with supporters of your trend have been disappointing. Often, I have gotten the impression that they were young people who thought they knew more than they did. That is ok, however, because I was much worse when I was younger, and I only hope that, over the years, I have gained a small amount of perspective and humility. I wrote a somewhat lengthy article which talks about and (was inspired by) your relaunch announcement, and it is posted here: http://communism.org/node/4006 I note that, in your announcement, your trend has aspirations to be the focal point for political theory, analysis, enlightenment and organization for the working class. Those are certainly high aspirations, and there is nothing wrong with having high aspirations. I will come to the point: I would like to see your trend do more to recognize that it has a responsibility to assist in the gradual aggregation of content from all of the many trends which have similar aspirations to serve the working class. Our movement is saturated with confusion of every kind, in particular reformist illusions and the sectarian impulse to see only as rivals (and to underestimate the potential of) competing trends. Lenin, in WITBD, discussed the need to put the work and views of the various trends and circles on the same page--in a public way--so that what was healthy could be emulated--and what was unhealthy could be corrected and overcome. My conclusion is that our movement has a similar need today. How to best go about this lengthy process is complicated, of course. I believe a good place to start is: (1) a simple public statement of intent, and (2) modest actions in this direction in the near term, while engaged in the lengthy process of sorting out how best to move forward. I have written about these things at greater length in my article and I would like to see, from one or more of your supporters, thoughtful comments, questions, criticisms or engagement. Ben Seattle (on facebook as Ben Stevens)