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Intergalactic Socialism
Proletarian interstellarism, sometimes referred to as interstellar socialism or Intergalactic socialism, is a social class concept based on the view that upcoming interplanetary travel will establish capitalism as a universal system, and therefore the working class must act as a universal class if it is to defeat it. Workers should struggle in solidarity with their fellow workers in other planets on the basis of a common class interest.
Category: Tendencies: 24th February 2016 23:41
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Communism
This is a group for people who are communists.
Category: Tendencies: 21st August 2017 15:40
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Libertarian Socialism
From WikiPedia:
Libertarian socialism (sometimes called social anarchism or left-libertarianism) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization. It promotes free association in place of government and opposes the social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor. The term libertarian socialism is used by some socialists to differentiate their philosophy from state socialism, and by some as a synonym for anarchism.
Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that promotes the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of life.
Accordingly, libertarian socialists believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalized form—whether economic, political, religious, or sexual—brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised". Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions, and workers' councils.
Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include most varieties of anarchism (especially anarchist communism, anarchist collectivism, anarcho-syndicalism, and mutualism) as well as autonomism, Communalism, participism, libertarian Marxist philosophies such as council communism and Luxemburgism, and some versions of "utopian socialism" and individualist anarchism.
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The group avatar image is one of Daniel Guerin taken from libcom.org.Category: Tendencies: 29th March 2018 01:43
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Christian Communism
Christian communism is a form of religious communism based on Christianity. It is a theological and political theory based upon the view that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support communism as the ideal social system. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact date when Christian communism was founded, many Christian communists assert that evidence from the Bible suggests that the first Christians, including the Apostles, established their own small communist society in the years following Jesus' death and resurrection. As such, many advocates of Christian communism argue that it was taught by Jesus and practiced by the Apostles themselves.
Category: Tendencies: 21st August 2017 15:39
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Witch
Full Magic
Category: Tendencies: 6th June 2016 15:28
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Against Psychoanalysis
For all those who think psychoanalysis is fucking bullshit. Freud, Rank, Adler, Lacan, Winnicott, Klein, Roudinesco, Leclaire, Laplanche, Miller, their followers, and their pseudoscience belong to the trashbin of history.
Category: Tendencies: 3rd October 2016 23:15
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Anti-Nationalists
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
Category: Tendencies: 19th August 2017 00:59
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Protracted People's Permanent Revolution in One Factory
Protracted People's Permanent Revolution in One Factory is a theory that states that in underveloped countries a viable tactic to revolution is to move equipment from one side of a factory to the other such that one side (side can be any fraction, not just 50/50) is very highly developed, even exceeding the development of a factory in a highly developed country. Then, with the advanced concentration of equipment in that side of the factory, more equipment can be manufactured and moved (after being manufactured and tested) to the opposite side. After this, the factory will have reached a high level of development, having both the original equipment and newly produced equipment. This is essentially a version of Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution between two countries adapted to fit one factory with an extra step at the beginning because both sides start out underveloped. Multiple factories can do this in parallel, leading to the rapid development of industry in a country. In this manner, it echos Joseph Stalin's theory of socialism in one country. This rapid change in development dialectically is too much for the ruling bourgoisie, and renders them weak enough that a protracted people's war (even if it does not take so long as to be "protracted" but the tactics are the same) can be waged for the capture of power by the proletariat. Tactically it is very versatile because it can be used where two broad areas are concerned as well instead of just two "sides" of a factory.
It is the most highly developed completion of "the merger of [Maoism, Third-Worldism, Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism] and the workers' movement" (Die Nieue Ziet) that has yet been achieved.
Also, Pajama Sam symbolically represents adventurism.Category: Tendencies: 24th March 2016 14:42
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Tankies!
For all the Stalinist, Kruschevite, Brezhnevite, Marcyite freaks who have the nerve to recognize actual existing socialism.
Category: Tendencies: 20th January 2017 19:32
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Value criticism
"Value criticism (in German Wertkritik) is a branch of postmarxism which is criticizing the capitalistic society. They are following traditions of the Frankfurt School and the critical theory developed under Max Horkheimer. Representatives are Robert Kurz, Roswitha Scholz and Moishe Postone.
Value criticism is taking crucial aspects of Marx critiques of commodity fetishism, commodities and value, while they criticize Marx theory of class struggle and historical materialism. As result the worker class can not necessarily be identified as revolutionary subject. Instead it is pointed out, that labor has to be understood as a historic specific entity and that criticizing capitalism implies not only to criticize the distribution process in capitalism, but also the capitalistic production process and the productive powers. Thus it can be concluded, that real socialism was finally nothing more but state capitalism, where production was still following capitalistic principals. The interpretation against the traditional marxistic point of view is defended in the Manifesto Against Labour."
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_criticism
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Further reading:
http://www.exit-online.org/text1.php?tabelle=transnationales&index=2
http://www.krisis.org/navi/englishCategory: Tendencies: 2nd March 2016 16:01
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Latest Discussion: in case of revolution
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Marxist-Leninists
Marxism-Leninism is the theory and practice of the Communists, who uphold the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the struggle for proletarian revolution, the construction of socialism, and the triumph of communism on a world scale. It is the scientific ideology of the working-class and its vanguard which accomplish these aims.
Marxism-Leninism bases itself on historical and dialectical materialism, taking into account the objective material conditions existent in each country and region. It supports just struggles against imperialism and neo-colonialism whose victories are guaranteed through the leading role of the working-class in said struggles. It supports internationalism as the guiding basis of the foreign policy of the socialist state and in the approach to inter-imperialist conflicts. Marxist-Leninists fight for both democratic and socialist demands and, where necessary in the world, carry out any bourgeois-democratic tasks in tandem with the uninterrupted move over into the socialist revolution.
The struggles waged by Marx, Engels and Lenin against all forms of revisionism, opportunism and reformism constituted both the defense of scientific socialism and its creative development, opposing both "left" and right-wing deviations.
The construction of socialism in the Soviet Union and likeminded countries provided a superior alternative to the capitalist system. The treacherous policies pursued by the restorers of capitalism constituted a heavy setback for the world working-class movement, but they could not reverse the nature of capitalism and the inevitability of class struggles for socialism under it.
Marxism-Leninism remains the ideology of the working-class by virtue of its scientific content and objective merits in the epoch of imperialism and the decay of capitalism.
=Reading List=
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* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyACondensedCourse
* https://archive.org/details/MaterialismDialecticalMethod
* https://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/13358/ (Elementary Principles of Philosophy)
* https://archive.org/details/lininandtherussi035179mbp (an introduction to Lenin's life, Leninism, and the October Revolution along with the first few years afterward)
* https://archive.org/details/AShortHistoryOfTheCPSU
* https://archive.org/details/InternationalWorkingClassAndCommunistMovementHisto ricalRecord
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ (The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin)
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ ("Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin)
* https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin)
* http://bookzz.org/book/862537/add33c (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism)
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* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomyCapitalism
* https://archive.org/details/PoliticalEconomySocialism
* https://archive.org/details/tfomlp (The Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy)
-See Also-
* http://www.revleft.com/vb/threads/195470-Compilations-of-writings-by-Marx-Engels-and-Lenin-(PDFs)
NOTE: To all forum users wishing to join, have some indication that you are a ML in your profile.Category: Tendencies: 7th June 2018 13:29
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Indian Guerilla Left Front
Join the Indian political revolution .Lal Salaam to all Comrades
Category: Organisations/Parties: 5th June 2018 04:59
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Latest Discussion: Members are invited to express their views on Maoism -
Debunking leftists.
As the tendency name suggests, this group is for interested leftists to come together, dispell and find quick refutations of common myths surrounding economics, discrimination, Communism itself and other subjects that commonly appear in the discourse of modern politics.
If you get pissed off whenever you hear a comparison between Marx, Lenin Pol-Pot and Hitler, If you tremble uncontrollably at the words 'a way between extreme Marxism and Capitalism' or 'Good on paper but bad in practice', If you hate having to put up the constant conservative vomits who continuously explain to you how deregulation would increase competition and therefore worker's luxury of living, then this is the group for you!Category: Interests: 7th May 2018 06:03
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Feminist
Feminism: A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
Category: Tendencies: 29th April 2018 17:14
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Orthodox Trotskyism
Orthodox Trotskyism, so called by both adherents and detractors, is a political current within the broader Trotskyist movement that bases itself on the work of Leon Trotsky and his associates, such as James P. Cannon, who advanced Marxist theory in the direction indicated by Trotsky's work, in opposition to the revisionist theories of Pablo, Shachtman, Cliff and others. Orthodox Trotskyists emphasise the analysis, first outlined by Trotsky, of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, of the Stalinist bureaucracy as a contradictory stratum, and of the present epoch of the class struggle as being characterised by a deep crisis of leadership that can only be resolved by forging, on a firm basis, a Fourth International of revolutionary Bolsheviks-Leninists. This group is for adherents to the orthodox Trotskyist line, and every comrade who is interested in orthodox Trotskyist theory.
Category: Tendencies: 13th April 2018 11:33
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Romantic Sound
For all those who's passion finds an outlet in music with themes about love and romance. Countless genres around the world from oldies and 70's ballads in the west to C-ambient and soothing J-pop ballads in the east. Romantic tones find themselves being a universal language. We don't care if this music makes us seem soft or weak, the mood it puts us in is powerful.
Category: Interests: 12th April 2018 22:45
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Industrial Workers of the World
A union for all workers.
An injury to one is an injury to all
http://www.iww.org/Category: Organisations/Parties: 12th April 2018 22:45
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Castroism
This group is for people who feel cuba's revolution is now the example for world revolution in the 21rst century
Category: Tendencies: 12th April 2018 22:45
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Latest Discussion: Venezuelan communist Party kicked out of elections -
Linguistics Group
A Group for the discussion of Historical and Scientific linguistics, as well as the learning of languages.
Category: Interests: 6th April 2018 17:22
56 member(s)
Latest Discussion: What Languages do you speak or hope to speak? -
Luxemburgists
For all those who identify as Luxemburgists or are influenced by Rosa Luxemburg and her writings and actions.
Category: Tendencies: 29th March 2018 01:57
280 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Anarchism and Luxemburgism
