"Left Unity" does not cover minions, says it right there in Article 4, Section Two of the Chapo Charter which under the authority of the Admiralty court means the mods have no authority to court-martial me, since I cannot be court-martialed TWICE
NGL I've known people this would work on.
The best organiser I've ever known is a woman in her fifties who keeps a minion plushy the size of a full grown man in her office because it makes her happy.
No gas, this person probably does more praxis and left-building work than most people on this site. (Myself included).
Isn't IWW pro communist? I haven't met a lot of anti-communist IWW folks
I guess if what you mean by communist is Marxist, then IWW is agnostic on that, but that attracts membership that are both Marxist and anti-Marxist. Historically, the organization has always wanted to stick to labour struggle and avoid forming up into a party apparatus or joining communist labour internationals, so Marxists don't see it as a communist organization, more like a pro-worker labour organization. Interesting to note that at some point, the IWW was invited to the Communist International and declined the invitation.
Big Bill Haywood did end up living in the Soviet Union and worked for Lenin as a union organizer in his later years (didn't have a lot of other options though I guess other than go to jail for 20 years)
isn't syndicalism super opposed to electoralism and only concerned with building labor power & then eventually they just supercede the bourgeois state or something? doing 'party' politics isn't a 1 : 1 with electoralism but I can maybe see where they were coming from
Well, it's central to the way Marxism is applied politically to take on more than just the labour struggle. Much of Lenin's What Is to Be Done? is a response to the narrow fixitation on a solely labour-based struggle. He said that there also has to be an ideological and political struggle co-ordinated with the economic (i.e. labour) struggle. Otherwise, opportunities are missed by this tactical inflexibility to bring more people into the camp of the communists, including non-proletarian segments of the masses that are being ruined by capitalism all the same.
The Marxist opposition to "electoralism" is just another manifestation of this desire for tactical flexibility. Running people for elections as a socialist isn't bad per-se, but it has to be seen merely as a tactic in a broader strategy that is based mostly on the mobilization of the masses.
This person is hilarious and 100% does more praxis than any whiny poster on this site.
I mean, this is pretty cringy but its not like they are doing anything bad.