Certain problems I have with the leftist ideology

[theo84]

I am from an economically underdeveloped country. Well, it is developing I guess.

My question is, how does the leftist ideology help my country? It might help venezuela, colombia or any country like that since those countries have already experienced development at some point (even if they collapsed at some point). In those countries, the feudal system collapsed. Nowadays the feudal mentality of the Afghans or something is not there in Latin America.

But in my country, majority of people still live under the feudal system. I have myself seen how, because of capitalism, huge numbers of people travelled to cities, they emerged out of the feudal mindset. That has not happened to the people in the villages. They are still living in the feudal system and the condition of the women is very pathetic. How can I expect to see bold liberated women in my country as long as the feudal system exists? What possible solution does the leftist movement have to destroy the feudal system(which needs to be destroyed at the earliest)? In my country the leftist parties are singlemindedly interested in blocking foreign investment and therefore because of that, the ignorant villagers still remain ignorant.

I will be honest here. I am an admirer of the early Soviets. I admire how those guys transformed a nation of peasants into an industrial nation. But how can this be achieved in a democratic country? Are we doomed to stay this way? Because as long as the Marxists block investments we will never modernize.

What method do you have to increase employment? To increase business?

[Comrade Jacob]

Which country are you in? Please tell me and I may add to this.
First step would be to nationalise the resources so those dastardly capitalists can't rape yours, then it will be easier to nationalise the industries. Then Collectivise the lands so that foreign and domestic companies can't claim land that belongs to the people. (All this is highly unlikely to come to pass without blood-shed).
Once to government has control over their economy is can start making things that people need not what people want, they will now have to ability to make jobs for people because they now have that ability it is no longer in the hands of the money-whores known as capitalists. (Cuba have the lowest unemployment in the world, it had lower before they allowed some private industry). Socialist countries are known for industrialising their people quicker than anyone else. Leftist ideology also puts great stress on health and education.

[Ismail]

Which country are you in? Please tell me and I will add to this.Keep in mind he may have security reasons for not specifying. Even the most "democratic" third-world countries are a lot less stable and the governments more arbitrary than an industrialized Western country.

Also Western countries have always been investing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These investments are to secure and expand their profits, not to actually develop the economies of the countries being invested in. For example: in the 60's the monoculture economy of various African states saw the decline of prices for those products on the world market eat up all the foreign "aid" Western countries gave them, with the result that their indebtedness actually rose. You can't solve a situation like that by betting on even greater "generosity" from Western capitalist governments and institutions, but by political changes in the country in question to promote genuine economic development away from monoculture, and the best guarantee of such a thing is a government under the control of the working-class and its vanguard.

[Blake's Baby]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'feudal' here. To my mind, the whole world is capitalist and has been for 100 years or more. What particularly is it that makes you describe it as 'feudal'?

There is a problem in certain countries I guess, that the growth of the working class is slow. But the working class worldwide is growing, and revolutionary socialism is based on the international situation of capitalism, not the situation in this or that country. Russia in 1917 wasn't 'ripe for socialism' becuse socialism is impossible in a single country; but worldwide, socialism was possible 100 years ago and it's possible now. There must be some workers where you are, both in the cities and in the countryside; many agricultural workers are part of the rural proletariat, because like urban workers all they have to sell is their labour power.

Which 'Marxists' do you mean that are opposed to foreign investment? It's not the job of Marxists to advise on the organisation of capital, it's the job of Marxists to help the working class to come to a realisation of its historic role in overthrowing capitalism.

[ind_com]

I am from an economically underdeveloped country. Well, it is developing I guess.

My question is, how does the leftist ideology help my country? It might help venezuela, colombia or any country like that since those countries have already experienced development at some point (even if they collapsed at some point). In those countries, the feudal system collapsed. Nowadays the feudal mentality of the Afghans or something is not there in Latin America.

But in my country, majority of people still live under the feudal system. I have myself seen how, because of capitalism, huge numbers of people travelled to cities, they emerged out of the feudal mindset. That has not happened to the people in the villages. They are still living in the feudal system and the condition of the women is very pathetic. How can I expect to see bold liberated women in my country as long as the feudal system exists? What possible solution does the leftist movement have to destroy the feudal system(which needs to be destroyed at the earliest)? In my country the leftist parties are singlemindedly interested in blocking foreign investment and therefore because of that, the ignorant villagers still remain ignorant.

I will be honest here. I am an admirer of the early Soviets. I admire how those guys transformed a nation of peasants into an industrial nation. But how can this be achieved in a democratic country? Are we doomed to stay this way? Because as long as the Marxists block investments we will never modernize.

What method do you have to increase employment? To increase business?

Greetings. I live in India. What I have seen here is that capital investment in the underdeveloped regions with a fully functioning feudal state apparatus makes things worse. Capital does not only reinforce feudalism but also finds newer ways to exploit the masses. Here the communist revolutionaries engage in people's war to bring down both feudalists and capitalists, and help the masses to take control of both politics and capital, which they then use for development. Letting imperialist capital enter does not cause development, rather it blocks development.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Which 'Marxists' do you mean that are opposed to foreign investment? It's not the job of Marxists to advise on the organisation of capital, it's the job of Marxists to help the working class to come to a realisation of its historic role in overthrowing capitalism.

"Blocking investment" need not refer to parliamentary tactics - for example, in India the Naxalbaris take armed action against foreign companies.

One thing that should be kept in mind is that development by imperialist capital is uneven development - it strengthens reactionary social forms, including the power of the landlords, instead of weakening it. Just look at Saudi Arabia! There is no shortage of "development" there, but that doesn't matter one iota to the plebeian in the Hijaz. In fact, it makes his situation worse.

Uneven development, imperialist plunder and the shameful remnants of feudalism and slavery can only be ended by a global socialist revolution.