When these supposed ‘leftists’ cry out for unity, it is never they who are willing to subordinate themself and their organisations to the Marxist line and tactics for the sake of unity; it is always the Marxists who must be ‘reasonable’ and ‘realistic’ and take a step toward reformism, liberalism and then as a final consequence the imperialist bourgeoisie we are supposedly all fighting against. ‘Being reasonable’, much like ‘common sense’, functions as a synonym for total surrender to the formal state institutions and the logic of imperialism.