Nope. I don't get it. I really don't.

Grumpy young (to me) James Delingpole in his column (not online yet) in this week's Spectator writes about his recent meeting up with his

old mucker Brendan O'Neill from Spiked who very nearly persuaded me a few years ago that I was, like him, a revolutionary Marxist

Revolutionary Marxist? Delingpole?

And in the same week, this in Standpoint, from Nick Cohen:

In the 1990s, the [Revolutionary Communist] party's leaders decided to give up on socialism and move into the media. And like good Leninists, the rank and file obeyed their superiors' orders and abandoned their previous convictions on demand. The Moral Maze is now its base at the BBC and is on the radio as I write. Claire Fox of the Institute of Ideas, which the party's cadres founded when they decided that Trotsky was wrong after all...

[...]

If you come across a new voice on a Radio 4 talk show, talking with loudmouthed conviction, the odds are that he or she will be from the [Revolutionary Communist Party]/Institute of Ideas. Indeed, if you want to become a talking head on Radio 4, the best advice I can give you is to join the RCP crowd.

As an aspiring pundit you will need to subscribe to the following notions: that the British mollycoddle their children and foolishly protect them from the rough and tumble of childhood with anti-bullying campaigns; that human rights are a joke and humanitarian intervention a crime; that we live in a therapeutic culture, under whose yoke the State tells us how to live, love and grieve; that social workers are agents of oppression; that psychiatrists aren't much better; and that environmentalism is a reactionary attempt to stop human progress

Well, all right, I can just about see how Delingpole might... but... revolutionary Marxist?

Cohen concludes:

conservative readers will be pleased that the former RCP now offers them what they used to find in the Tory press or hear from the lips of saloon-bar philosophers at the 19th hole.

Revolu... What?

Are marxoids all right-wing now, then? Have they grown up, or what? Or have I been a communist all along, only without knowing it? Is this what the Left calls 'false consciousness'?

Oh, and I always make a point of reading Delingpole, Cohen and, erm, Spiked**. Should I see someone?

** And Rod Liddle, soi-disant Leftie, Radio 4 alumnus, now semi-libertarian controversialist. Is he RCP, too?