Leftist ideologies

[Seth]

Can someone explain what advocates of these believe ideally in a couple paragraphs each? If you're one of these just do that one.

Anarchism

Libertarian Socialism

Authoritarian Socialism

Marxism

Leninism

Stalinism

Trotskyism

Maoism

Brezhnevism

Bordigism

DeLeonism

Kautskyism

Guevarism

Castroism

Titoism

Hoxhaism

Bolivarianism

[Rising Sun]

Brezhnevism

Kautskyism

Castroism

Bolivarianism

wait.....wat?

[Rusty Shackleford]

may i suggest you look at the wiki that is hosted on this website? you can do a search of all of these and get a pretty quick to the point description of each of them. Also, the user groups on here are categorized and there is a section for tendencies which usually have descriptions of them too.


im not trying to brush you off, im just trying to save everyone some extensive writing and a possible tendency fight.

[Die Rote Fahne]

*COUGH* Luxemburgism *COUGH*

[Seth]

*COUGH* Luxemburgism *COUGH*

Who?

[Seth]

may i suggest you look at the wiki that is hosted on this website? you can do a search of all of these and get a pretty quick to the point description of each of them. Also, the user groups on here are categorized and there is a section for tendencies which usually have descriptions of them too.


im not trying to brush you off, im just trying to save everyone some extensive writing and a possible tendency fight.

Uh, thanks.

So are there tendency fights often on here?

[Die Rote Fahne]

Who?
One of the most underrated Marxists of all time, and the most influential in Germany....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg

http://marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/index.htm

[o well this is ok I guess]

wait.....wat? Kautsky had unique theories, bro.

Bolivarism is basically just Chavez.Ism.

[Rising Sun]

Kautsky had unique theories, bro.

Bolivarism is basically just Chavez.Ism.

........wat

[Nox]

Hoxhaism

A Hoxhaist is, in simple terms, a Marxist-Leninist who is anti-revisionist and took the side of Albania in the Sino-Albanian split.

When it comes to anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism, the two tendencies are Maoism and Hoxhaism, although Hoxhaists believe that Maoism is revisionist.

Interesting Fact: Quite a few Marxist-Leninists are Hoxhaists without even realising it.

[Q]

The are about 2 billion threads on this subject on Revleft. I suggest to use the search function.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Your best bet, OP, is to use the search function on here, or use Wikipedia for a brief overview of the ideologies. The most important ones being:

Marxism
Libertarian Socialism (including left-libertarianism)
Left Communism (including Luxemburgism!)
Marxism-Leninism
Trotskyism
Focoism
Anarchism

You may want to search for Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy as well, to get an idea of what separates Socialist reformists and Socialist revolutionaries.

[thefinalmarch]

Just use marxists.org's encyclopedia/glossary for pretty much anything you wanna know the basics of.

http://marxists.org/glossary/index.htm

[Die Rote Fahne]

Your best bet, OP, is to use the search function on here, or use Wikipedia for a brief overview of the ideologies. The most important ones being:

Marxism
Libertarian Socialism (including left-libertarianism)
Left Communism (including Luxemburgism!)
Marxism-Leninism
Trotskyism
Focoism
Anarchism

You may want to search for Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy as well, to get an idea of what separates Socialist reformists and Socialist revolutionaries.

Luxemburgism is not Left Communism.

[Ostrinski]

..And here it begins.

[Ostrinski]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_socialism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnevism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordigism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleonism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kautskyism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guevarism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castroism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titoism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoxhaism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianism

[TheGeekySocialist]

Who?

:crying:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Luxemburgism is not Left Communism.

Well, no, strictly her writings attacked Leninism from a more Libertarian Socialist viewpoint, but it seems as though her theories have influenced many left communists.

Or perhaps i'm slightly confused about left communism. :confused:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

This is why I never used to get involved with 'isms'. Damn you Rosa!

[A Marxist Historian]

Well, no, strictly her writings attacked Leninism from a more Libertarian Socialist viewpoint, but it seems as though her theories have influenced many left communists.

Or perhaps i'm slightly confused about left communism. :confused:

Libertarian Socialism? Rosa would puke.

Her ideas were in motion in the last few years of her life, and she spent the last few months of her life founding the German Communist Party and repudiating her criticism of the Bolsheviks for wanting a Soviet workers council regime rather than parliamentary democracy.

Though she still had various other disagreements with Lenin that remained unresolved, and we'll never know where she would have ended up if she hadn't been murdered.

Most of her followers became Bolsheviks and Communists. Notably Felix Dzherzhinskii of course.

-M.H.-

[Die Rote Fahne]

Well, no, strictly her writings attacked Leninism from a more Libertarian Socialist viewpoint, but it seems as though her theories have influenced many left communists.

Or perhaps i'm slightly confused about left communism. :confused:

No, her writings were from an Orthodox Marxist viewpoint. She very much thought of the Bolshevik revolution as a good and important thing.

She wasn't a Marxist-Leninist, but she was not a Libertarian Socialist.

Some of her views may have influenced Left Communists, but that doesn't make her a Left Communist.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Libertarian Socialism? Rosa would puke.

Her ideas were in motion in the last few years of her life, and she spent the last few months of her life founding the German Communist Party and repudiating her criticism of the Bolsheviks for wanting a Soviet workers council regime rather than parliamentary democracy.

Though she still had various other disagreements with Lenin that remained unresolved, and we'll never know where she would have ended up if she hadn't been murdered.

Most of her followers became Bolsheviks and Communists. Notably Felix Dzherzhinskii of course.

-M.H.-

She actually promoted having both workers councils and a Constituent Assembly. This was one of her qualms in The Russian Revolution. Later, possibly in the Junius pamphlet (I can't remember), she promoted just councils.

So, Luxemburg wasn't a Communist? I don't understand your second-last sentence.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Communists along the line of Leninism perhaps?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

No, her writings were from an Orthodox Marxist viewpoint. She very much thought of the Bolshevik revolution as a good and important thing.

She wasn't a Marxist-Leninist, but she was not a Libertarian Socialist.

Some of her views may have influenced Left Communists, but that doesn't make her a Left Communist.

I don't think that's strictly true. By the time of her death she had clearly railed against the Bolshevik methods, and even as early as 1905, her work The Mass Strike provided an important analysis of why there was a rise in revolutionary consciousness amongst the proletariat in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, despite most of the Bolsheviks being far from at the 'vanguard' of the movement.

There's certainly a case for saying she wrote from a more orthodox Marxist perspective, but it's also certainly the case that where Marx was the authoritarian, she was more the libertarian. Her work 'The Russian Revolution' provides just such an expose. I guess how you view this, though, depends on your interpretation of Marx himself.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

And no, I wasn't ever saying she was a left-com (or didn't mean to). I was referring to Luxemburgism, as it has been interpreted after her death.

[A Marxist Historian]

She actually promoted having both workers councils and a Constituent Assembly. This was one of her qualms in The Russian Revolution. Later, possibly in the Junius pamphlet (I can't remember), she promoted just councils.

So, Luxemburg wasn't a Communist? I don't understand your second-last sentence.

Poorly phrased. She was a Communist. With a capital C, as the founder of the German Communist Party, not just a small-c believer in communism as a good idea or "council communism." Was she a Bolshevik? No.

Her followers by and large became *both* Bolsheviks *and* Communists after she died. Almost all of them in fact.

-M.H.-

[o well this is ok I guess]

ok what's with this Cc business

[Devrim]

Some of her views may have influenced Left Communists, but that doesn't make her a Left Communist.

Obviously Luxemburg wasn't a left communist. As you say here views did influence the left communists, but it wasn't just a one way process.

Luxemburg's ideas developed alongside the ideas of those who would later become the German left communists, and until the KPD expelled the majority of its members for 'leftism' in 1920, they were in many ways part of the same current.

Within this current, and within the early KPD though, I think it would be fair to situate her in the centre, and not on the left.

Devrim

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kautskyism

Wrong link for Kautskyism. This is the correct link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Marxism


She actually promoted having both workers councils and a Constituent Assembly. This was one of her qualms in The Russian Revolution. Later, possibly in the Junius pamphlet (I can't remember), she promoted just councils.

Well, the renegade Kautsky also promoted both workers councils and a parliamentary body in his Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Both these figures of German Social Democracy completely missed the Bolshevik coups d'etat against non-Bolshevik soviets.