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nihilist communism
We think revolutionary expertise, which bases itself in organizational certainty and theoretical rigidity, measures only pro-revolutionary fabrication, it has but one relation to actual social conditions, which is that it is wholly unable to escape its determinations. Predictions for the future are hypothesized out of past happenings mistake the very nature of revolution, which we all agree is an event that is precisely not conditioned by the past and is characterized as a complete transformation of humans existence out of the economic mode. If we cannot recognize the future in the present then we cannot decide which pro-revolutionary activity or value of the present should be promoted or carried through to the future. It is our contention that most pro-revolutionary activity extends existing conditions and acts to prevent the future. We think many pro-revolutionary rather enjoy the antagonism of capitalist society and the part they place by supporting a 'side'.
We cannot say for certain what is to be done. What we do know is that the past appears, in one form or another, in the present, before our eyes, and from this appearance of dead forms we can identify what we think is counter-revolutionary. For example we see that consciousness is a concept that has been consistently deployed in past revolutionary attempts and because those attempts all failed the concept of consciousness and its role must be questioned. Our critique of consciousness begins with our understanding of the failure of revolutions: we see that consciousness, as an organizing principle, has always been deployed by a certain section of the bourgeoisie which seeks to use working class muscle to gain political power for itself.
As an alternative to the consciousness, which is, of course, also a 'recruiting' model, we argue that once factories have been seized by workers and capitalist production halted then through the resulting crack opened up in the structure of capitalist society humanity may find it possible to assert itself for itself. We therefore see revolution in two stages: (1) the seizure of production by the working class in pursuing its self-interest; (2)the collapse of existing forms of power brought on by the contradiction of working class ownership. The collapse of established power will bring a new material base of human society into existence, drawing from this base the mass of humanity will have the opportunity to remake itself.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Monsieur_Dupont__Nihilist_Communism.html
brief note on the purpose of this group:
my primary purposes in starting group are to assemble a collection of texts in the "nihilist communism" vein, or relevant to its critique of the pro-revolutionary milieu and to have friendly, informal discussions about those texts and the points they raise. to this end, although in the "tendency" category, this group is open to all who are interested.Category: Tendencies: 12th September 2017 20:14
99 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Nihilist Communism and the Understanding of the Proletarait -
Situationists
Group for people interested in the Situationists, who identify with the methods and goals of Situationists, or who wish to learn more about Situationists and Situationism.
Something Something "Spectacle"
Situationists Needed!
Also, wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_InternationalCategory: Tendencies: 12th September 2017 20:15
177 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Whats the Situation -
Econ-minimalist
Economic minimalists are directed by adherence to the real economic process through the application of the scientific method in the study of socio-economics.
econ-minimalist principles
- continuous social progress.
- elimination of artificial scarcity.
- adherence to the real economic process.
- seeking to reduce economic theory to it's necessary elements.
- spreading awareness of the unifying theory of artificial scarcity.
- utilization of the scientific method in political socio-economic study.
- economy is a public utility whose intended purpose is to sustain a civilization.
- understanding the true nature of communism is to indoctrinate nothing except altruism.
- spreading awareness of the true economic condition of humanity as defined mathematically and by direct observation.
- communism should not be defined in ideological/political terms, or even ethical, but rather in a very simplified scientific and economic language.
- communism does not replace the "mode" of production alone, it is a complete restructuring of entire cities, items, transportation; any understanding less than this is archaic and misconstrues communism.Category: Tendencies: 28th March 2016 15:52
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Latest Discussion: to understand artificial scarcity we have to first look at real scarcity. -
Anti-Zionists
By its nature, Zionism concentrates ultra-nationalism, chauvinism and racial intolerance, excuse for territorial occupation and annexation, military opportunism, cult of political promiscuousness and irresponsibility, demagogy and ideological diversion, dirty tactics and perfidy... Absurd are attempts of Zionist ideologists to present criticizing them, or condemning the aggressive politics of the Israel's ruling circles, as antisemitic.
Category: Tendencies: 12th October 2017 04:09
327 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Awkward Situations -
Narco-Socialists
For those who see the failed International War on Drugs as a globalized system of exploitation, driven by corruption, double standards, and authoritarianism, for the benefit a few political and cartel elites.
Narco-socialism proposes three initiatives to be taken in order:
1) End of prohibition in the main whip of the international drug war, the United States, both in its domestic policy, which has locked up an enormous populations in profit driven prison systems for menial drug offenses that effectively have no victim, and in its relations with other country's, who mostly continue the policy for fear of losing subsidies.
2) The establishment of Socialized Medicine, funded by the revenues of Afghan Opium which should be bought instead of destroyed, as it currently is, and made into pain-medication, in combination with the establishment of workers co-operative medical cannabis farms and distribution centers, based on the california model. This will serve as a basis for a new economy, as overproduction in a drug market can be curbed even more vigorously, and more enjoyably, than in a war economy, out of which the current state of affairs was born.
3) The establishment of a Fifth Socialist International based on the aim at liberating the oppressed laborers who slave under the lash of the drug cartels in South America, the opium warlords in Afghanistan and where ever else this system has propagated. We agree with the proposal by Comrade Chavez, though critique his, and the general left's tendency to conventional or even reactionary thinking.
We seek to the free the people and free the mind.Category: Tendencies: 28th October 2017 22:07
108 member(s)
Latest Discussion: The Narco-Socialist Manifesto -
Leninists
A group for every Leninist out there. This group is for all Leninists: Marxist-Leninists, Bolshevik-Leninists (Trotskyist), Maoists, just plain Leninists, and everything under the Leninist banner.
Category: Tendencies: 16th March 2017 10:37
191 member(s)
Latest Discussion: The State and Revolution: Bureaucracy, the vanguard, blah blah blah -
Stalinist-Stalinist-Stalinist Joesph Stalin Thought
The fourth qualitative stage in Stalinism
Category: Tendencies: 20th January 2017 19:33
12 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Poetry of Stalin -
Insurrectionists
For all those who enjoy the blazing cocktail parties at Molli's. Welcoming all Insurrectionary Anarchists, Insurrectionary Communists, and the like, as well as people in support of or interested in debating Insurrection, Direct Action, Sabotage, Militancy, Clandestineness, Armed Resistance, Urban Guerrillas, and all other things non-reconcilable.
Category: Tendencies: 29th March 2018 01:44
161 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Direct action -
Parecon
For those who support a participatory economic system (parecon) post-revolution.
A summary of how parecon works: http://www.zcommunications.org/parecon-future-and-present-by-michael-albert
Why it's good: http://www.zcommunications.org/seven-reasons-why-i-advocate-parecon-by-michael-albert
An eBook on parecon that's more in depth than the previous articles: http://books.zcommunications.org/ParEcon/lookingforward/toc.htmCategory: Tendencies: 24th November 2015 23:21
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Latest Discussion: market -
Anarcho-Communist
A group focused on consolidating AC ideas, debates, and the general ideals of AC's everywhere, in one convenient place for AC's and non-AC's everywhere.
Category: Tendencies: 29th March 2018 01:43
395 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Best Communist-Anarchist book?
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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=
-Basics-
* 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
572 member(s)
Latest Discussion: My notes and quotes I've collected -
Indian Guerilla Left Front
Join the Indian political revolution .Lal Salaam to all Comrades
Category: Organisations/Parties: 5th June 2018 04:59
5 member(s)
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
42 member(s)
Latest Discussion: The exploitation of M.L.K. Jr's image by the bourgeoisie. -
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
504 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Sex positive VS sex negative feminism -
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
29 member(s)
Latest Discussion: Rip -
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
2 member(s)
Latest Discussion: What genre do you love to? -
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
15 member(s)
Latest Discussion: This group doesn't have any discussions yet. -
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
7 member(s)
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
