@c8b85fde @636cb8f3 

Of course there are a range of views - otherwise we wouldn't be able to 'take what insights we can from all the great traditions of left thought'.  I don't see anything negative - or ambiguous - in this.

But don't mistake the various different blueprints for better societies that appear from time to time for substantive differences.  Such blueprints come and go, and will never be realised everywhere forever anyway - history doesn't end - and as Camus argues in 'The Rebel' such teleological illusions carry inside them the terrible danger of believing 'the end justifies the means'.

The underlying unity of left thinking lies elsewhere: in working for the oppressed, opposing exploitation and  injustice, and, deepest of all, in the belief that humanity is capable of organising itself on the basis of evidence and reason - it is this that really defines the left, and distinguishes it from the political right and centre. 

 @64af5594 @636cb8f3 so in that case what you have proposed as your own ideology is simply impossible. Judging from what little information I have you are at the very least, left-libertarian 

 @c8b85fde @636cb8f3 

The only label I'm sort-of comfortable with is 'socialist', because it alludes to the fundamentally social nature of humanity, and to the fact that everything that makes life good is socially produced - even self-awareness.

But I tend not to label people (while not denying that 'isms', etc, can be useful in grouping related ideas, etc); nor (I hope) do I have 'an ideology' - the whole point of left-wing thinking, surely, is just that: trying to see through ideology, to look reality square in the face.