Hello comrades

[Comrade Jacob]

I guess I should start with my specific leftist ideology... I identify as a Marxist-Leninist
I am still looking further into Maoism before I start to call myself a (Marxist-Leninist-) Maoist. I am NOT a Trotskyist or a social-democrat etc, I view them a revisionist. I would also describe myself as a Castroist.

[Q]

Welcome :)

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[Ace High]

I'm a fan of Castro myself, not so much Mao, but to each their own! Welcome!

[Brutus]

But you don't view Castro as 'revisionist'? The foco theory is antithetical to Marxism (I.e. the liberation of the working class), and whilst we're on the topic, so is the people war of Maoism.
http://jfklancer.com/photos/newphotos/castrokhrushchev.jpg
Stick that in your 'anti revisionist' pipe and smoke it.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Hi! I guess I'm a revisionist? Oh well. I guess revisionism is correct then. Hehe. Anyways, welcome to RevLeft! :D

[Brutus]

Revisionism is revising the key principles of Marxism, like you trots with your TP program :p. JR's book that Q uploaded described it well.

[Le Socialiste]

Welcome!

[Fourth Internationalist]

Revisionism is revising the key principles of Marxism, like you trots with your TP program :p. JR's book that Q uploaded described it well.

Yet the Manifesto had transitional demands... Revision indeed. :D

[Brutus]

“This one would have been more self-explanatory, had this term not been so abused in modern times for entirely personal reasons. Nevertheless, revisionism, objectively speaking, is merely an assault on the fundamental principles of revolutionary Marxism carried out by those claiming to adhere to those principles.”

Excerpt From: Richter, Jacob. “The Class Struggle Revisited.” iBooks.
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The section goes on for another page, which expands on this quote, but I can be arsed c/p-ing it.

[Brutus]

:laugh:
Yet the Manifesto had transitional demands... Revision indeed. :D

The manifesto had minimum demands.

[Fourth Internationalist]

:laugh:

The manifesto had minimum demands.

The manifesto had transitional demands. Fool...

[Comrade #138672]

Well, that still means the working class needs to seize power (revolution). There is no other way to implement these minimal transitional demands.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Revisionism is revising the key principles of Marxism, like you trots with your TP program :p. JR's book that Q uploaded described it well.

Dialetical materialism is one of the key components of Marxism, and its laws demonstrate the constant motion of history, which naturally requires a constant revolutionizing of the Marxism framework, Revisionism entails the distortion of the fundamental principles of Marxism in order to create an ideological lip service to the bourgeois, and as the Dialetical Materialist view is strictly a proletarian one, this represents a distortion of the fundamental class charcther of the Marxist framework.

And the basis of the demands in the Communist Manifestio were of a Maximum-Minume Programme. A transitional programme entails a platform of reforms that would accelerate class struggle to the point of revolution by causing a crisis in capitalism, a Minume-Maximum Programme has demands which are solely tactical, while the Transitional programme elevates them to the level of strategy.