Greetings from Atlantic Canada!

[RedLaw]

After having discovered this website a few weeks ago and reading many,many
posts it was an easy decision to join RevLeft!
I'm from Atlantic Canada and have been interested and supportive of 'far left'
socialist ideals since the late 1970's.
There were no forums like this when I was younger that's for sure.
At age 14 I was reading 'People's Canada Daily News' which at the time was
the official newspaper of the Marxist-Leninist Party in Canada.
So my earliest understanding was that 'revisionism' alongside capitalism was
to be resisted at all times.
I met Hardial Bains,the Marxist-Leninist leader when he spoke at a local
university in the early 1980's here.
My views on various issues have evolved over time as a lot has changed in
the socialist world in twenty five plus years and as for 'tendancies' I have and
probably always will look fondly upon both the DDR and Socialist Albania.
I see the word 'Anarchy' a lot on this site...I don't know anything about that.
Anarchy to me means lawlessness,chaos and disorder and that is the opposite
of what socialism means. (Security,Peace,Idealism,etc.)
I'm an older generation than most here I assume,so maybe I'm missing some-
thing in the translation?
Anyhow,glad to be here and hope to have some interesting,thought provoking
discussion and make some friends.

"Capitalism is everyone's enemy."

[Q]

Welcome :)

You say your ideas have evolved over time, do you still consider yourself to be a Marxist-Leninist or are you now somewhere "in between" so to say?

[RedLaw]

Welcome :)

You say your ideas have evolved over time, do you still consider yourself to be a Marxist-Leninist or are you now somewhere "in between" so to say?

I suppose I still do. Others may not agree.
I know that I always refer back to the writings of Marx,Lenin and Hoxha
and I don't see anyone in recent modern times that compare with these
men.
I feel that if those underpinings are totally abandoned then the movement
just becomes something else.
I remember the early 90's when many wanted to change 'everything'!
Thanks for the welcome!

[Chambered Word]

Anarchy to me means lawlessness,chaos and disorder and that is the opposite
of what socialism means. (Security,Peace,Idealism,etc.)
I'm an older generation than most here I assume,so maybe I'm missing some-
thing in the translation?
Anyhow,glad to be here and hope to have some interesting,thought provoking
discussion and make some friends.

"Capitalism is everyone's enemy."

Anarchism is about simply abolishing the state altogether.

Welcome. :)

[AK]

Welcome :lol:
I see the word 'Anarchy' a lot on this site...I don't know anything about that. Anarchy to me means lawlessness,chaos and disorder and that is the opposite of what socialism means. (Security,Peace,Idealism,etc.)
Dear oh dear - the cappies even got to the commies.

[Rjevan]

Hello and welcome! :)


I know that I always refer back to the writings of Marx,Lenin and Hoxha
Good choice! ;)

Most anarchists here are anarcho-syndicalists or anarcho-communists. Generally speaking they want a communist society (abolition of classes, the state, etc.) immediately after the revolution and thus reject the concepts of a transition period, socialist states, a vaguard party and so on. Famous anarchist theoreticans are for example Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Rudolf Rocker, Emma Goldman and Noam Chomsky.

[AK]

Anarchism is about simply abolishing the state altogether.

Welcome. :)
...and class-based society and all that - and replacing institutions such as the Bourgeois state's police with a similar entity but which enforces laws made by the people (that is by people themselves, not parliaments and whatnot) (i.e.: not enforcing the will of an upper class; thereby not being a state) and replacing centralised government with workers councils, assemblies, communes and what have you.