Thoughts on focoism

[flaming bolshevik]

What are your thoughts on focoism? Could it be applicable in the first world given the right conditions?

[Zoroaster]

Vanguard parties in general are kinda bullshit. Maybe the mass party, but Leninist politics are a dead end. Read some Luxemburg or some Redstar2000.

Edit: Sorry if I sounded rude.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Well usually these are peasant based. In the U.S. for example I think it'd be pretty difficult, especially with the amount of farm work done by migrant workers. And even if theoretically it could be applied would we want it? Small groups of guerrilla fighters leading the revolution? I could see guerrilla warfare being organized and used as part of a general strategy during an actual revolution but not as being the center of the struggle or being the revolutionary leadership.

[Prometeo liberado]

No. Just ask the Columbians. What with drones and all the other advances made by the U.S. military to combat these kinds of situations I don't see it as a possibility. BTW Focoism is in fact in direct conflict with Leninism.

[Orange Juche]

Vanguard parties in general are kinda bullshit. Maybe the mass party, but Leninist politics are a dead end. Read some Luxemburg or some Redstar2000.

Ain't that the focon truth. :lol:

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Aside from what others have said, there really aren't any countries where focoism is possible as a strategy to pursue, let alone one which can lead to an authentic proletarian revolution. Focoism came out of a Latin American context where most states were run by military dictatorships, and where the threat of such a dictatorship was ever-present in those with some kind of republican democracy. Imperialism found more efficient models, and the USSR collapsed. This is why small guerrilla bands have largely fared quite poorly for the most part in Latin America in the past couple of decades. In Colombia, the only country where there is still a large number of militants, FARC and the ELN are looking for a negotiated way out of the conflict after a decade or so of retreat. The other groups in other countries are too small to do anything, and with the exception of a few big names like the Shining Path, don't get much attention.