Originally posted by
[email protected] 17 2005, 09:08 PM
Could anybody differentiate, between these differnet brands?
Perhaps ideological reasoning, theory, history, definition of each would be helpful.
Democratic Socialist
Bookchinite
Democratic Marxist
Castroist
Anarchist
Libertarian Socialist
DeLeonist
Leninist-Trotskyist
Progressive
Shachtmanite
Kimist
Stalinist/Maoist
Christian Socialist
Social Democrat
Democratic Socialists - Finally, the third category consists of democratic socialists who favor some of the same measures the communists advocate, as described in Question 18, not as part of the transition to communism, however, but as measures which they believe will be sufficient to abolish the misery and evils of present-day society.
These democratic socialists are either proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class, or they are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, a class which, prior to the achievement of democracy and the socialist measures to which it gives rise, has many interests in common with the proletariat.
- Encyclopedia of Marxism -
Bookchinite
mayb ull find something here
www.democracynature.org/ dn/vol5/fotopoulos_distorted.htm
Democratic Marxist -
Theory: The State as a relatively autonomous "contestable terrain" for the organized, self-conscious constituencies of the working class, through an open, inclusive political party (a left Democratic Party or third party) and a radical labor movement. Socialists organize a coalition of the sinking bottom third and the sliding middle third of America (the bulk of the poor and the working middle class) against the wealthy and corporations; central, necessary role for organized labor. Influenced by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci; socialists struggle to wrest ideological hegemony away from the ruling class, and gain hegemony for radical ideology. The leading exponent in the U.S. has been Michael Harrington. Also well described in the pamphlet "Toward a Democratic Socialism: Theory, Strategy, and Vision" (1991) by Joseph Schwartz, member of the DSA National Political Committee.
www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/leftling.htm
Castroists -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castroism
Anarchism -
a political theory favoring the transition to a communist society, and finally, the abolition of the government...
for more, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
Libertarian Socialist -
Libertarian socialism is a political philosophy dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the state. It has gone by various names: libertarian communism, anarcho-communism, left-anarchism, and sometimes simply anarchism. Libertarian socialists believe in the abolition of privately held means of production and abolition of the state as unnecessary and harmful institutions.
Libertarian socialism essentially denies the legitimacy of private property, and is thus a left-libertarian philosophy. In contrast, right-libertarian philosophies, such as that of the United States Libertarian Party, have very different views with regard to property, though they also oppose government influence in personal affairs. The term "libertarianism", when used alone, may often refer to right-libertarianism. This is especially common in areas where right-libertarianism is popular, such as the United States.
wikipedia
DeLeonist -
Developed by Daniel De Leon, Marxism-Deleonism is a form of Marxism.
De Leon combined the rising theories of Syndicalism in his time with orthodox Marxism. According to DeLeonist theory, militant Industrial Unions are the vehicle of class struggle. Industrial Unions serving the interests of the "proletariat" (working class) will bring about the change needed to establish a socialist system. How this differs from Anarcho-Syndicalism is that, according to DeLeonist thinking, a revolutionary political party is also necessary to fight for the proletariat on the political field.
De Leonism lies outside the Leninist tradition of communism.
wikipedia
Leninist-Trotskyist -
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. The term is sometimes used more loosely to denote various political currents claiming a tradition of Marxist opposition to both Stalinism and capitalism. An adherent of Trotskyism is called a Trotskyist; the term Trotskyite is pejorative.
Trotsky advocated proletarian revolution as set out in his theory of "permanent revolution", and he argued that in countries where the bourgeois-democratic revolution had not triumphed already (in other words, in places that had not yet implemented a capitalist democracy, such as Russia before 1917), it was necessary that the proletariat carry out the tasks of that revolution and make it permanent by carrying out the tasks of the social revolution (the "socialist" or "communist" revolution) at the same time, in an uninterrupted process. Trotsky believed that a new socialist state would not be able to hold out against the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions quickly took hold in other countries as well. This theory was advanced in opposition to the position held by the Stalinist faction within the Bolshevik Party that "socialism in one country" could be built in the Soviet Union.
wikipedia
Shachtmanite -
Shachtmanism was a form of Trotskyism associated with Max Shachtman. It originated as a tendency within the US Socialist Workers Party in 1939 and Shachtmans supporters left that group to form the Workers party in 1940.
Shachtmanites believe that the Stalinist rulers of Communist countries are a new (ruling) class, distinct from the workers; therefore, they go beyond Trotsky's description of Stalinist Russia as being a "degenerated workers' state". Max Shachtman described the USSR as a "bureaucratic collectivist" society. Other Trotskyist thinkers have described such societies as "state capitalist" and are often said to share a basic theoretical agreement with Shachtman.
Left Shachtmanism, influenced by Max Shachtman's work of the 1940s, sees Stalinist nations as being potentially imperialist and does not offer any support to their leadership. This has been crudely described as seeing the Stalinist and capitalist countries as being equally bad, although it would be more accurate to say that neither is seen as a more progressive alternative for the working class. A more prevalent term for Left Shachtmanism is Third Camp Trotskyism, the Third Camp being differentiated from capitalism and Stalinism. This position is broadly held by the Workers' Liberty grouping in Australia and the United Kingdom, and by both the International Socialist wing of Solidarity and the International Socialist Organization in the United States. The foremost left Shachtmanite was Hal Draper a writer who worked as a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley and became influential with left wing students during the Free Speech Movement.
Social democratic Shachtmanism, called "Right Shachtmanism" by detractors, later developed by Shachtman and espoused by the Social Democrats USA holds Stalinist nations to be worse than Western capitalism, and will as a result often side with the U.S. government in international conflicts against Stalinist groups, such as the Vietnam War.
wikipedia
Kimist -
didnt find anything about it, sry
Stalinism/Maoism -
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893—September 9, 1976) was the chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1935 until his death. Under his leadership, it became the ruling party of mainland China as the result of its victory in the Chinese Civil War and the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Mao developed a brand of Sinified Marxism-Leninism known as Maoism, paralleling the political ideology known as Stalinism, and while in power collectivized agriculture under the Great Leap Forward. He forged, and later split, an alliance with the Soviet Union and launched the Cultural Revolution.
Mao is widely credited for creating a mostly unified China that was free of foreign domination for the first time since the Opium War, while at the same time criticized for the famine of 1958–1961 and the violence of the Cultural Revolution.
for more reading on Maoism and Stalinism check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism
Christian Socialist -
This article is about politics that is a conjunction of Christianity and Socialism. See notes at bottom about other uses of the term "Christian Socialism".
Christian Socialism generally refers to the politics of people who are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected, perhaps because one derives from the other. Broadly speaking, this category can include Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social gospel. The term "Christian Socialism" is used in this sense by organizations such as the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM), a specifically Christian grouping affiliated with the British Labour Party. The term also pertains to such earlier figures as the nineteenth century writer Frederick Denison Maurice (The Kingdom of Christ, 1838) and Francis Bellamy — Baptist minister and author of the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
Clearly, parallels can be drawn between what some have characterized as the egalitarian and anti-establishment message of Jesus, who certainly spoke against the religious authorities of his time, and the egalitarian, anti-establishment, and sometimes anti-clerical message of most contemporary socialisms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism
Social Democrat -
Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. During the early and mid-20th century, social democrats were in favor of stronger labor laws, nationalization of major industries, and a strong welfare state. Over the course of the 20th century, most social democrats gradually distanced themselves from Marxism and class struggle. As of 2004, social democrats generally do not see a conflict between a capitalist market economy and their definition of a socialist society, and support reforming capitalism in an attempt to make it more equitable through the creation and maintenance of a welfare state. Most social democratic parties are members of the Socialist International, which is a successor to the Second International.
Often, the term socialism is used to denote social democrats, although in many countries socialism is a broader concept including democratic socialists, Marxists, communists, libertarian socialists and sometimes anarchists.
In the past, social democrats were often described as reformist socialists (since they advocated the implementation of socialism through gradual reforms). They were contrasted with the revolutionary socialists, who advocated the implementation of socialism through a workers' revolution. Today, however, the democratic socialists carry on the legacy of reformist socialism and seek to bring about a fully socialist system through electoral means, while most of the social democrats only wish to make capitalism more equitable (and see the abolition of capitalism as unnecessary).
Social democratic parties are among the largest parties in most countries in Europe, as well as in the majority of European-influenced parts of the world (with the notable exception of the United States). Social democrats are seen as centre left in orientation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democrat