So, are Left Comms just dumb or counter revolutionary?

  1. Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist
    Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist
    Exibit A: http://www.revleft.com/vb/day-1950-g...79#post2568279

    To me it looks like they are reactionaries plain and simple. Their lack of political praxis make their theory in practice just another right-wing deviation, since it refuses to give the working class any guidance in a situation where a revolution wins in only one country and their theory in practice means virtual non-involvement in any working class movement, hence projecting a puritan version of communism while doing literaly nothing to attain it.

    Now normally I wouldn't mind these right-wingers but it seems that the degree of sectarianism they express shows that they would violently oppose any revolution that isn't "theirs". So, are these people just fools or objectively capitalists?
  2. Ismail
    Ismail
    Orwell was lame and a prototype version of Christopher Hitchens (who not coincidentally admired Orwell greatly) who just happened to die before the transition from petty-bourgeois socialist to right-winger could be completed. But he certainly made his "socialism" (which was of a Labourite and anti-communist variety) known before then.

    As for the original question, what happens during an actual revolution will be anyone's guess. Obviously those who try to go against the revolution are dealt with. The Bolsheviks (and the East European countries, etc.) allowed those who were not agitating for the overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat to lead respectable lives with civilian professions (e.g. Kropotkin.) It is known that a number of Left SRs and Left Mensheviks degenerated into allies of reaction. Likewise in Albania a number of quasi-Trotskyist persons later worked with the Balli Kombëtar. These persons were obviously dealt with during the wars.
  3. Comrade Samuel
    Comrade Samuel
    Seems like a complete shit thread. Kinda glad I steered clear of that one.
  4. l'Enfermé
    Right-wing deviation? Comrade, it's left-communism, not right-communism! :O

    But really does it matter? Does anybody know any actual left-communists in real life? I think there are more Trotskyist sects in existence than there are actual living Left-Coms currently active.
  5. bad ideas actualised by alcohol
    bad ideas actualised by alcohol
    To be fair, there are probably more Trotskyist sect than people on this planet.

    I wouldn't really say stupid, a lot of left-communists I have talked with online, i.e. not the Revleft ones, are very intelligent actually.

    For the most part left-communists repeat the same non-sense Lenin critiqued about 90 years ago. Lenin's critique is still very much true today. However I wouldn't say the left-communists in that thread are representatives of left-communists as a whole, even though even the left-communists' politics as a whole are wrong.
  6. Questionable
    Questionable
    I wouldn't have as much of a problem with LeftComs if they could debate sensibly. Most of them have already made up their minds that Stalinists are the scum of the earth, worse than capitalists, and it is beneath them to debate with them.
  7. Brutus
    Brutus
    They reject every other tendency as part of the bourgeois apparatus, so are therefore counter revolutionary and stupid