:bordiga-despair: Unironically though I'm starting to realize that the tendency I find my opinions most alike is leftcommunism, not because it's what I'd advocate for, it's just that I'm a petty-bourgeois failson who ventured too deep into academia to truly relate to the working class struggle, so even though I would say the ML's have it right it's hard for me on a personal level to imagine how that style of working class organization should take place

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In the dumbest terms possible: leftcommunism is an orthodox understanding of Marx's original writings to the point of chastising more activist sects for attempting to pursue revolution before the material circumstances naturally create it, generally referring to them as "opportunists." For me it's more that I don't see how an ML party could pursue revolution before the material circumstances have sufficiently built to naturally generate working class insurrection (and I'd say Matt shares these beliefs if you watch the cushvlogs), but other sects rightfully make fun of leftcomms as "armchair lefties" because the thought process basically boils down to sitting on your hands until the revolution just shows up on its own.

      Like I said, dumbest terms possible so go do some of your own research, but I've already made the personal pledge to never effortpost on this site so this is the best you'll get

        • jabrd [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yea I agree, but like Marx wrote (I couldn’t find the original text) the petty-bourgeois who align with the working class struggle will be tag alongs not leaders in the socialist formation

          • dave297 [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Marx also thought communism would happen in Germany not Russia, he wasn't able to see the future

            • jabrd [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Ye but I don’t think he was fundamentally wrong about class positionality structuring our understandings. I’m firmly in the camp that our material surroundings inform and decide our possible outcomes. Marx may have read the tea leaves incorrectly when it came to predicting where a communist revolution would occur, but it doesn’t mean his base analysis was incorrect

              • dave297 [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                on the other hand we haven't had one successful communist revolution in an industrialised society but have had a few in peasant economies. Socialism itself tracing back to medieval peasant movements

      • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Have you ever read "What is to be Done?" or "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder"? Just curious to know your personal thoughts seems you seem partial to Marxism Leninism but are maybe just cynical about things actually working out so that keeps you in the left-com camp.

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      stfu dumb bitch doing nothing is vital to the revolution, now let me gorge myself to death on lasagna