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Moskitto
20th February 2002, 21:21
http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/leftism.gif
Supermodel
20th February 2002, 22:57
That is one heck of an interesting analysis!!! Now I have to go look up what all those mean!!!
La Resistance
20th February 2002, 23:40
/me takes a trip to the local university library...
red head
21st February 2002, 04:44
i basically think of that as almost complete bullshit. the site its from (redencyclopedia) has a strong trotskyist leaning, and is extremely unfavorable to anything remotely related to stalin. anyone who calls democratic socialism more "left-wing" (whatever that really means anymore) than maoism has a screw loose. and how can leninism, the begining of authoritarian socialism, heir to stalin, be considered left-wing when stalin isn't, or be considered democratic at all? and how is "bookchinism", a phrase that would make murray bookchin shudder (he uses "communalism"), less left-wing than anarchism? he is an anarchist. it just has major flaws and should by no means be accepted as gospel.
vox
21st February 2002, 04:44
Not a bad portriat of the Left. The only thing that I'd do differently is place "Left-wing Communism," which is a big block that entails a lot, up a bit higher, along with Anarchism. Since Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin are all broken out, it would appear that "Left-wing Communism" means Marx, and that is as democratic as anarchism.

One other, minor, complaint, may be about the place the Bookchin holds, but it's not really worth mentioning.

vox
MindCrime
21st February 2002, 07:49
*draws a little block in the lower right hand corner*

And this is where the Capi's on this forum assume we all stand....
vox
21st February 2002, 08:08
*draws a little block in the lower right hand corner*

Hee!

vox
Moskitto
21st February 2002, 21:01
It's on Redencylcopedia what all of them mean, there's also a test to find out which one is you.

I would have thought that the capis would think we're at the bottom left because they think all left is authoritarian and all right is democratic.

For those who don't know, Mossy is a Council Communist.

Strange that no capies have responded to this.
El Che
21st February 2002, 21:32
Strange indeed moskitto, maybe ignorance as well as being petulante is also afraid of knowledge.