Ah yes, the conservative hangups of Lenin, the guy who decriminalized homosexuality
Hot take, none of this shit is real, but also it's good for us to discuss theory in theoretical terms. Assigning a number to various aspects of your leftist beliefs is reductive, but it can help succinctly clarify where your thinking is going and what kind of socialist state you want to advocate developing.
Apparently I'm a council communist. Never heard the term before.
"Soviet" means council. Councils were meant to be like little federations of unionized workers with militias that could organize large sit down strikes and protect workers from police, as well as plan production for need in order to prevent shortages and keep the workers and general populace satisfied and striking. If this goes on long enough, you're basically doing a socialism and supplanting the state, the militias become the police and the police become rebels, the means of production are under proletarian control and the bourgeoisie want to seize them from us, which is obviously illegal.
Anarcho syndicalists think you build a big union, do a general strike, and bam, capitalism btfo, socialism. Council communists think the revolution will be a long struggle that will educate us and generate the organizations (and membership) needed to overthrow capitalism and do socialism. Council communists think class consciousness will be produced by proletarian struggle, which will inevitably occur because capitalism sucks.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/1987/council-communism.htm
Just took the test and managed to get 93% Anarcho-Communist, over 80% classical Marxism, and somehow only 0.3% ML. Sorry MLs, still love you people and left unity!
Bakunin, Stirner, Kropotkin is the holy trinity of 'narcho theory
I have read some of their works , and will continue to do so.
orthodox marxist with a close follow up of council communism for me. i think anarchists and tankies both have good points, a lot of the questions i disagreed with were how socialist organizing 'mattered'. i think most revolutions succeed due to material conditions, not necessarily organizing. there are obviously coups and such like that that are outliers.
Eco followed closely by Orthodox Marxism. Then council communism which I don't agree with at all.
