Tendecies and class structure

[Strannik]

I have had a general impression from what I have read that various "isms" reflect a different class power structure of the society. They arise from pragmatic alliances with other social sections - either real or suggested.

Worker-dominated:

Leninism - small advanced working class leads, in alliance with large peasant caste.
Maoism - large peasant caste leads, in alliance with small working class.
Trotskism - large advanced working class leads, in alliance with petty-bourgeoise.

And bourgeois dominated:

Nazism - an alliance of bourgeoise and petty bourgeoise leads, controlling large working class.
Social democracy - petty bourgeois interests controlling both workers and bourgeoise.
Conservatism - "classical" bourgeois structure: capitalists above, workers below. No alliances.

This is just a thought and probably someone else could describe it better. :) Perhaps one could draw some matrix of class power from here to map the tendencies?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Gross oversimplification as well as leaving out much in the way of details for each tendency and ideology.

[runequester]

well intentioned but any such tendencies will mean nothing unless they are understood for what they were:
Adaptation of marxist principles to specific, concrete circumstances during specific times.

Trotskyists and Stalinists will argue about things that happen in 1917, but will both completely ignore that the world is radically different, and hence, we have currently no realistic left alternative.

We will again, and it's up to us to build it, but there's a long way to go.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Political tendencies don't correlate with social classes in such a neat and simple manner. History is too complex to be thus encapsulated.