revision of january i've just conducted a major revision of this article besides completely rewriting the lede i've noticed a number of issues with the article and i explain the rationale behind my editing choices with regard to those issues below tendency in the first line of the article had a clarification needed tag i was at first unsure how to clarify a word that seemed pretty clear to me nonetheless recognising that those not well versed in left wing political terminology would have difficulty understanding what it meant in that context i've linked it to school of thought as the closest alternative if anyone can think of a better way to clarify its meaning please do this article used a mixture of commonwealth and north american spelling it has no clear national ties to any english speaking country as such based on the wikipedia manual of style's guidelines i've standardised to commonwealth spelling as that was both the predominant and as a search through the article's edit history will reveal the first spelling variation to be used there was a large amount of unencyclopedic language and very mild pov pushing i've brought much of this article back in line with npov to the best of my abilities i've italicised all references to the platform as it is the short hand of a book title additionally it needs to be pointed out that platformism ought to be written with a lower case p similar to anarchism and communism and finally i've removed all redlinks as they make the article look unprofessional i hope everyone is okay with all of this '''''' talk stalk