Brotto Rühle

actual im a pretty bad poster, i havnt read all that many marxists texts and i tend to forget a lot of what i read pretty quickly. but no i havnt heard of marxist-humanism, i should probally read up on it some day. have it good.

accepted wholeheartedly, its good to see good new members as yourself on this forum.

Just saw your post in the state socialism thread that lead me to that excellent piece by David Adams. Just wanted to say I appreciated that connection, I'll be passing that along to some confused comrades and anarchists

Did you read my reply to you on democracy?
I did not articulate my self correctly and rereading the things i wrote before that, I found out I came off as a bigger asshole than I really am.

Yo we should aim chat.

Ernst Mandel, the stalinists favorite trot economist.

Sometimes it's amusing to see the sort of things that come out of them. For instance, that comment about anonymous buyers and sellers and the idea that commodity production ends when there is "super-abundance", which leads a rational person to presume whether he considers tribal people to be producers of commodities for internal use. They haven't even read the first three chapters of Capital apparently.

Unfortunately not yet. Im not really in a position for heavy reading right now though.
So anything short?

Let me expand:
A lot of the stuff in "State and Revolution" is compatible. And is theory on class consciousness seems to be accurate to me (for at least first world conditions).
For simplicity sake I agree with his distinction with socialism and communism.

However, I usually take Luxemburg and traditional left com line over lenin.