Maoism proved to be nothing more than a religion and the organizations turned into nothing but cults. Is it a coincidence that Bob Avakian, Abdullah Ocalan, Guzman, Comrade Bala, and even Greg Lucero ended up developing cults around themselves? Niot to mention the party splits, they initially seemed like ideological disputes but looking deeper, especially at Greg, he was simply accumulating power and popularity around himself. And the Orwellian nature of Maoism. Discipline was obedience. Reactionary was someone against the guru. The Cultural Revolution (especially outside of China) were nothing more than party purges. And when people mentioned the Mass Line, they were bullshitting themselves and everyone else around them.
Hi, thanks for the compliment. I just feel as if it would do me some good for the time being. Perhaps I might return at some point though.
Incidentally group pictures such as the one in De Leon literati look best when limited to a height and width under 80px or sometimes 100px.
Go to the bottom of the page for the group and click 'Pending and Invited Members'. Thanks for creating the group De Leon Literati, I have joined. There is another De Leon group. You might be interested in https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...tions/messages
I'm not much of a revolutionary socialist. I'd say I'm a left democrat who thinks voting is a worthy cause to protect peoples rights (ie freedom from discrimination, outlawing abortion, etc), for example. I'm a member of the Democrats and Democratic Socialists of America. That said, I do think that western military intervention isn't always a bad thing, such as in Bosnia or Kosovo, and support its use in limited amounts (not for regime change, generally speaking). I do greatly appreciate the compliments. I try not to be disagreeable outside of political disagreements.
I actually subscribe to a lot of Marxist ideas. I think Marxist economics is insightful and extremely informative. I also think historical materialism, as well as dialectical materialism actually, is essentially correct. The Marxist conception of history I think is fairly self-evident and obvious. I agree that the mode of production is the chief determining force in history, and this in turn influences the 'superstructure'. The basic principles of dialectical materialism also, seem rather self-evident. I would say that h/d materialism is much more complicated than how it is usually portrayed, but I'm sure many Marxists would agree with me on that too. My main disagreement is regarding the political aspects of Marxism - more specifically the transitional period, and the authoritarian underpinnings of it. However, there are many Libertarian Marxists who argue that Marx never intended it to be authoritarian and centralised, but rather libertarian.
Enh. No accounting for taste I suppose. Anyway, thanks for kicking off some interesting threads.
Well, I was ever somewhat anti-stalinist because in Brazil, Stalin is almost a synonymous of "Genocide". But I was indeed a Titoist (Or, more correctly, a Pro-Tito "Democratic Socialist", a pinko in red). What really put me against Stalinism and all Marxist-Leninist ideologies was simultaneously my reading of Marx and after I heard of Bordiga's analysis of the Soviet Union. The anti-statist ideology of Marxism is incompatible with Stalinism, which is the Ideology of the State-Capitalist bureaucracy. I do not know, however, if Stalinism in other parts of the world are so reactionary as in Brazil, but it is clear to me, as an outsider of the movement that there are Neo-Strasserists everywhere in there. Religious people, nationalists, homophobes, outright fascist scum advocating killing "All the bourgeois, the Jews, the hippies and homos", etc...
Well, you had gone full anarchist, and now your tendency is Freudo-Marxism again. And I'm answering the "comrade" down below, who thinks that because some bourgeois idiots says something is pseudo-scientific and he can't understand it, that it must be pseudo-scientific (Like Dia-Mat or His-Mat, totally pseudo-scientific tools)
So, you're back? I have been offline for a while, I was in an occupied factory with some trotskyst workers and a new trotskyst party in Brazil. Also, Psychoanalysis is as materialist and scientific as a theory can be, if you aren't an idealist.
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