The MST politics are democratic socialist revolutionary, understood from the centrality of class as a motor of history. Rather than describing itself as “Marxist”, it prefers the term “Dialectical Materialist”, feeling the term “Marxist” to have been narrowed by history to represent a single set of views on socialism and class-based revolutionary struggle.As a multi-tendency organization, with a culture of debate and ideological discussion, there are people within its membership and leadership who visualize themselves as Anarchists, Anti-Revisionists, Communists, Democratic Socialist, Maoists, Revolutionary Socialists, Syndicalists, and Trotskyists.

What they do have in common is a commitment to revolutionary action, and to worker’s self-emancipation, which leads to a belief that differences in opinion are a positive feature in a revolutionary organization.