Geiseric

yeah, I was thinking more along the lines that any info from Maoist is gonna be completely different than any non-Maoist. Even Chinese numbers would be propaganda because (I know most love to not mention or ignore this) when Xiopeng took power he did a lot of things to discredit Maoism and restore capitalism and grow the right wing of the party.

The numbers will be biased no matter who puts them forward. Deng claimed Mao killed 50 million people. But anyone who looks can see those numbers are just pulled from a hat. So I'd love for you to forward any un-biased facts you find about the great leap forward to me lol. I wasn't trying to be mean or anything and sorry if I came across that way

I'm writing you because of you signature. I'd just like to say that un-biased and Mao do not go in the same paragraph together.

I was not referring to items. Commodity production is an alienating process. "DOTP" = dictatorship of the proletariat

One part's a neologism for the DOTP, while the other part emphasizes getting rid of commodity production even in the lower phase of communism.

Civil disobedience would fall under direct action I suppose, which is one of our ideas of struggle. Economically damaging direct action. On a more everyday level we argue for mass meetings in the workplace to discuss disputes which every worker should be able to attend.

Yeah Anarcho-Syndicalists and Trotskyists do seems to have similar goals. It just we have a completely different attitude to organising, structure, how an organisation must function etc

Cool. Just wanted to know as you shouldn't post pics of yourself - security culture and all. Cheers.

Is that a picture of you as your avatar?