Different Communist Teachings

[GoRiLLaZ]

hi guys, i am new to communism and i am wondering why is there different kinds of communism teachings?
for example like the teachings of lenin, mao...
can i know more about the teachings of different communist leaders?

maybe : lenin, che guevara, fidel castro, mao zedong and karl marx?

btw, which leaders teaching do u pay most attention to?

[Janus]

Different teachings consist of different methods on how to make a revolution and what to do after that.


can i know more about the teachings of different communist leaders?
There are resources here in Learning. Look at the pinned topics or the RevLeft archive.


btw, which leaders teaching do u pay most attention to?
Marx would probably be the major one though some here pay little attention to him at all.

[emma_goldman]

Marxism
Stalinism
Trotskyism
Council communism
Anarcho-communism
Titoism
Maoism
Leninism
De Leonism
Eurocommunism
Left communism
Hoxhaism
Religious Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Luxembourgism
Juche Idea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche)

And others...

As for what leaders teaching do I pay most attention to...well I'm not really a communist (though I agree with some points) I like Bakunin, Rocker, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman,Kropotkin, etc.

[RedKnight]

I identify the most with council Communism. I consider myself to be a marxist-luxembourgist. i am also impressed by the ideas of Mansoor Hekmat, and worker-Communism.

[Marxist_Fire]

A good site to learn about the different varieties of communism is: http://reds.linefeed.org/vocab.html

I most closely identify with the Trotskyist school of communism, although I do not agree with it 100%.

[Amusing Scrotum]

Originally posted by GoRiLLaZ
hi guys, i am new to communism and i am wondering why is there different kinds of communism teachings?

You may find this thread useful. (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=25786)

As it stands, there are numerous different communist traditions; I say traditions because, as with all things, schools of thought develop over time....and this means that, generally speaking, people tend to fall into a particular tradition instead of a particular teaching.

The most adhered to tradition is (probably) Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. And, as the link points out, people within this tradition "tend to focus on using guerilla war and peasant unrest to bring about a Leninist revolution"....though adherents in developed countries will emphasise the need for urban insurrection. In addition to this, there's a strong emphasis on what is termed the Cultural Revolution....and whilst the definition of this differs from person to person, it generally means the emphasis on battling bourgeois ideas in a post-revolutionary society. And some other stuff.

Likely the next biggest tendency is Bolshevik-Leninism, that is, Trotskyism. This tradition involves a fierce rejection of Stalin and a whole load of stuff about "Stalinism". And whilst Stalin and "Stalinism" are rejected, there is a divide within the Trotskyist camp as to what the Soviet Union was. That is, the question of whether it was State-Capitalist or a deformed workers state. Oh, and there's the Permanent Revolution stuff as well.

Next would be the left-communist tradition. Left-communists basically consider the old USSR to be State-Capitalist (or State Monopoly Capitalist)....and whilst they uphold the original October Revolution, they tend to see its degeneration revolving around a series of events. The implementation of One Man Management, the suppression of Kronsdadt, the banning of factions and so on. And, generally speaking, left-communists propose some kind of Councilism as an alternative to Nationalised Property....and, therefore, the term left-communism usually covers Council Communists and so on.

After this, you have anarcho-communism which is pretty similar to left-communism in general. However there are still major differences in terms of the proposed forms of organisation, the nature of Russia post October, the exact shape a post-revolutionary society will take and so on.

They&#39;re the four major traditions....and that&#39;s a simple definition of what they incorporate. Of course, there are many deeper concepts involved here; and these concepts affect the mentioned paradigms both internally and externally. If you want an example of this, then look up some of the old Trotskyism vs. Stalinism threads....if you have the stomach for them, of course. <_<

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

I personally am A Anarcho-Communist,

All the different &#39;factions&#39; of Communism claim that they are the true faction and the rest have misinterpreted the words of Marx or wherever they claim from -

I believe from reading the works I have of Marx, Lenin, Engels, and other Marxists both deceased and current that they were supporting a theory of Anarcho-Communism in which the State would be overthrown worldwide, and then a quick commune set up to supress people who would want to reinstate capitalism, and then everyone just lives in Free Anarchy without any masters anymore.

[emma_goldman]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 05:49 PM
I personally am A Anarcho-Communist,

All the different &#39;factions&#39; of Communism claim that they are the true faction and the rest have misinterpreted the words of Marx or wherever they claim from -

I believe from reading the works I have of Marx, Lenin, Engels, and other Marxists both deceased and current that they were supporting a theory of Anarcho-Communism in which the State would be overthrown worldwide, and then a quick commune set up to supress people who would want to reinstate capitalism, and then everyone just lives in Free Anarchy without any masters anymore.
I like Kropotkin for anarcho-communism. ;)

[LittleMao]

Marxist_Fire your site is very helpful.
It has lenthy explainations of almost all types of communism.

[ComradeOm]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 05:49 PM
I believe from reading the works I have of Marx, Lenin, Engels, and other Marxists both deceased and current that they were supporting a theory of Anarcho-Communism in which the State would be overthrown worldwide, and then a quick commune set up to supress people who would want to reinstate capitalism, and then everyone just lives in Free Anarchy without any masters anymore.
And I don&#39;t. Ergo you are not a true communist. Hand in your membership badge and forget how to do the secret handshake.

Ask anyone just what a communist is and you will get a different answer every time. I am a true Marxist/anarchist, you are just another revisionist/lifestylist.

[RevolutionaryMarxist]

Originally posted by ComradeOm+Aug 5 2006, 06:30 PM--> (ComradeOm @ Aug 5 2006, 06:30 PM)
[email protected] 5 2006, 05:49 PM
I believe from reading the works I have of Marx, Lenin, Engels, and other Marxists both deceased and current that they were supporting a theory of Anarcho-Communism in which the State would be overthrown worldwide, and then a quick commune set up to supress people who would want to reinstate capitalism, and then everyone just lives in Free Anarchy without any masters anymore.
And I don&#39;t. Ergo you are not a true communist. Hand in your membership badge and forget how to do the secret handshake.

Ask anyone just what a communist is and you will get a different answer every time. I am a true Marxist/anarchist, you are just another revisionist/lifestylist. [/b]
Harsh lol