I'm the New Guy

[RedBluesMan]

I'm the new guy here, using RevLeft to work through some of my own pessimism and find an outlet for my politics. PROTIP: It ain't gonna be here. I have the leftist echo chamber, but I figure y'all might help me sort out where I do and don't want to be.

The important points:



Former SEP supporter.
No longer consider myself a Trot.
Still think Trotsky is the indispensable thinker of the 20th Century.
Slight to moderate left communist sympathies.
Not an activist, nor do I want to be.
Never gonna be a Maoist or a "Marxist-Leninist" and never gonna join the ISO, CWI or the IMT.
Sparts / LFI / IBT = You're kidding, right?

I'm looking for an organization to work with, but it seems to me that all extant organizations are hopelessly middle class, mired in ten degrees of bureaucratic nonsense or just plain filled with assholes.

Important points of my politics:


USSR / Eastern Europe = workers' states until the end.
China / Cuba / Vietnam = nationalist regimes that aped socialism.
Not a supporter of scab unions (AFL-CIO).
Skeptical of the role of unionism in 2011.
Not sure if Hansen was a spy, pretty sure the Carlton College kids are spooks and Mark Curtis was guilty as hell.
Political independence of the working class above all else.
Completely hostile to identity politics.

Not sure if this is a good introduction or not, but it's what you get...

[Lenina Rosenweg]

What do you think of these guys?

http://insurgentnotes.com/

Anyway, why do you feel the need for an organization? Sounds like you've been though them and haven't found what you wanted. Why not be an independent radical? Also you said you do not want to be an activist, what would you like to do with an organization>

[Hebrew Hammer]

Welcome.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Welcome...you don't think your rejection of Marxism-Leninism and belief that the state capitalist/bureaucratic collectivist USSR was a workers state, is contradictory?

[Rafiq]

Welcome.... You sure you aren't a Marxist Lenninist, though?

[RedBluesMan]

I wanted to respond to all of the above in one message, rather than in several:


What do you think of these guys?

Anyway, why do you feel the need for an organization? Sounds like you've been though them and haven't found what you wanted. Why not be an independent radical? Also you said you do not want to be an activist, what would you like to do with an organization>

Never heard of them, I'll poke around. Being an "independent radical" seems to be the antithesis of Marxism to me. In an organization I would like to write and intervene in workers' struggles. I am not interested in tailing the Democrats, the AFL-CIO or any of their affiliated groups. If I go to a rally it's to explain the uselessness of the leadership.


Welcome...you don't think your rejection of Marxism-Leninism and belief that the state capitalist/bureaucratic collectivist USSR was a workers state, is contradictory?

Not really. "Marxism-Leninism" is often a euphemism for Stalinism. I subscribe to the Trot position that the USSR was a workers' state. I am open to state cap arguments other than Cliff's, as this is the only one I am familiar with.


Welcome.... You sure you aren't a Marxist Lenninist, though?

See above.