Heya

[BolshevikBabe]

I'm an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist with a big Althusserian influence, came here to discuss and learn more as well as hopefully talk to more leftists since I still have a lot to work out :) I'm also a trans woman, just to get that out of the way immediately.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

What attracts you to ML politics and Althusser? Are you a member of any group? And , on another subject, what is your opinion of the Conchita victory in the Eurosong festival?

[motion denied]

Hello. Welcome.

I think there are some more althusserians here and there...

[BolshevikBabe]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

What attracts you to ML politics and Althusser? Are you a member of any group? And , on another subject, what is your opinion of the Conchita victory in the Eurosong festival?

I originally got into Marxism-Leninism through studying the Russian Revolution and Lenin, and then I kind of retraced my footsteps and began reading Marx & Engels. From there, I've read more and more and gradually become more sure of my beliefs. To me, social practice is definitely the criterion of truth to a good extent and the historical success of Marxism-Leninism in establishing socialism has proven to me that it's a workable method which can hold power, develop productive forces, and continue the class struggle; what really needs to happen now is that we learn from the mistakes of the USSR, PRC etc. so as to avoid heading down the same route, but I think that can be done.

Althusser was recommended to me by a friend, and as soon as I began reading him I became really engrossed - I love his writing style, his approach to Marxist philosophy, his rigid anti-humanism and anti-historicism etc. and to be honest one of my big interests in Marxism is probably its relation to philosophy.

I'm not currently involved in any group, but I'm on the lookout.

As for Conchita winning Eurovision, it surprised me a little, but I believe a trans woman has won before so perhaps it's not such a shock. Maybe song contests are the one area where we aren't underrepresented/ignored. ;)

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Hello, welcome to RevLeft.


I'm an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist with a big Althusserian influence, came here to discuss and learn more as well as hopefully talk to more leftists since I still have a lot to work out :)

Eurocommunism is best communism?

I kid, I kid. For someone who, I think most of us can agree, was a committed revisionist, Althusser was fairly cool, at least before the last period of his life. Have you read his "Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientist"? Good stuff.


I'm also a trans woman, just to get that out of the way immediately.

If anyone had a problem with that we send them to the Naughty Box, also called OI.

[BolshevikBabe]

Hello, welcome to RevLeft.



Eurocommunism is best communism?

I kid, I kid. For someone who, I think most of us can agree, was a committed revisionist, Althusser was fairly cool, at least before the last period of his life. Have you read his "Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientist"? Good stuff.

I always find it interesting when Althusser discusses the USSR/PRC/current political events in his works, because he was scathing about what he saw as Khrushchev's revisionism (the humanist "state of the whole people" and "party of the whole people" being classic examples) and yet his actual politics were fairly unremarkable and largely in line with the PCF's increasingly evident revisionism from the early 60s onwards, and he was quite a big Brezhnev fan iirc from The Future Lasts Forever. Can't say I'm a huge fan of his more Hegelian works (prior to c.1950) or his later "aleatory materialist" period though (me being a diehard dialectician)

I'm a big fan of Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists, I see it as being a kind of update on Lenin's "militant materialism". An alliance between philosophy and science is definitely necessary; science without philosophy becomes positivistic and unable to create abstract frameworks, instead becoming empirical and myopic, while philosophy without science becomes subjectivist and idealist.


If anyone had a problem with that we send them to the Naughty Box, also called OI.

Glad you have that policy :) Most of the places I've been before haven't exactly been very safe to be a trans woman to be honest (thinking especially of Tumblr here)

[Halert]

Welcome to revleft.
You should meet Ismail, i think you two will get along.