New User Question

[MarxG]

I'm a new user and as of right now my political ideology is undefined, though lately ive been leaning Collectivist-anarchism. I'm still undecided for I want to make a good choice and learn as much as a can before I choose.
My question is, Why are you what you are? If you're an Anarchist why aren't you Communist? and vice versa.

[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.

[Sasha]

"Our comrades had not read Marx and were scarcely familiar with all of Proudhon's theories, but common sense was their guide." - Gaston Leval

theory is a tool, not a religion. take what you like and if it leans to one side call yourself what feels comfortable for the sake of clarity but never let your development be limited by "the approved curriculum" of a certain tendency.

greetings,
a post-leftist libertarian socialist council-communist insurrectionary communisation autonomous anarchist with primitivist technocratic vanguard sympathies that occasionally votes for reformists.

[RedWorker]

theory is a tool, not a religion. take what you like and if it leans to one side call yourself what feels comfortable for the sake of clarity but never let your development be limited by "the approved curriculum" of a certain tendency.

This is nonsense. There cannot be a revolution without the theory, and the notion that people could be naturally guided by some holy spirit is ridiculous. Supporting communism in a vacuum is absurd, and it cannot even be understood what this means, why it should or how it can be achieved or how these conclusions have been come to without the Marxist framework.

I'm not dogmatic. Lenin once said, "truth arises from the conflict of views". And that's exactly what theory is. Rejecting theory the way many people who say things like you do is dogmatic, and the notion that people should adhere to their own personal political views, rejecting peer review and collective development is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

Now, it definitely is a problem that there is too much talk and too little action, and that people stick to stupid dogmatic views. Yet this is no justification for rejection of theory.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

"I'm not dogmatic, Lenin once said..." lol

[motion denied]

dogma > eclecticism

fite me

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

The dogma of eclecticism demands that I respond but not for any specific reason

[BIXX]

This is nonsense. There cannot be a revolution without the theory

No.

It probably just won't be your revolution. You would do well to read nihilist communism (I'm not a communist but they do have a good bit about how the working class is going to rebel due to material conditions and their interests, not because they understand capital correctly).

[Blake's Baby]

MarxG, as others have intimated, the choice of 'tendency' on RevLeft is pretty much irrelevant.

Read and criticise, develop your own responses to what others have said and done, discuss these wherever and whenever you can, with anyone - on the net, in real life, at work or university. That's more important that nailing your colours to a mast.