I pretty much agree with you on everything, the basic lack of workability that Capitalism demonstrates with concerns to the majority of the population, the fact that most 'leftists' argue for reformed capitalism, the idea that a modern state is incompatible with proper socialism, I would like to think of myself as an Anarchist, that most if not all forms of hierarchy and authority are corrupt and the idea that these things are self-justified is just wrong.

However I cannot see for the life of me, i.e too ignorant, a way in which we can transition from a capitalist to a socialist society and out of sheer desperation look at the referendum and think to myself: well maybe we can look after welfare slightly better, maybe we can right some of the wrongs. I understand that it is almost certainly futile and probably wont change much for the better but I still believe it is the slightly better option available to me in terms of advancing the socialist cause and again because of my lack of information and my indoctrination I struggle to think what else I can do...and I do suspect that if you pitched the ideas on http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/what-socialism you would find a smaller percentage of people in Scotland telling you it is a pipe-dream and will never happen than in England, I think that people vote Labour for the right reasons they are just ignorant of the reality.

I think of it as the lesser of two evils and that a spoiled ballot, when looking at it with some pragmatism, would almost certainly result in a no victory, in my mind the worse of two evils, as the people most likely to agree with you are more likely to be on the yes side. Again I can't stress enough how I fundamentally agree with you and I totally understand that my behavior probably seems corrupt, the idea of working within the system, all I can say is it is out of a sense of desperation and a lack of imagination as to what other solutions there might be.

that man is a legend..so on the ball

Make sure you don't pass it on to Jimmy and me.