Ismail

I have a Question that i cannot find an answer to and I have been looking a lot. At what Phase would a socialist Society get Rid of Money? I suppose you know Marx thought of using Labor Vouchers instead of Money, but i have Not found anything about a discussion of Arguments for Money, Labor Vouchers or when to implement them or get Rid of them (i suppose in a High Stage of Socialism...). I also thought about this because of just Reading about underemployment in the eastbloc, and whether getting Rid of market Exchange in certain sectors Could have changed the Situation.

Wow. So how do you differ from other comrades, seeing as you are Stalinist, no?

I do not understand the arguments for ‘substitutionalism’ for our current western societies. Why would the party need to select the boss of an enterprise and not the workers that work in them? I do not understand the time process or the reasoning why in an advanced capitalist society, the proletarians could not become the ruling class and select subsumed and non-class subservients of the society.

Do you have any party affiliations? You seem to be among the more notable anti-revisionists around here.

A few days ago you said that unemployment was eliminated under Hoxha, but how many percentage where unemployed before Hoxha and the Communist party took contol?

Not a bad post. I think one could make a compelling argument that to be consistently for or against a given thing regardless of the circumstances, like homosexuality, is overly reductionist and idealistic; and a principled position in all(i.e. non-materialist). It's not a position I'd adopt, but I think the argument could be made.

I think that would elicit a knee-jerk reaction from most people though; I think we have many more people who base some of their views on principle and ideals than would care to be admitted.

You are pretty obsessed with these two individuals though, your avatar is of Stalin and your tendency is of Hoxha.

I agree that Stalin and Hoxha were not divinely inspired so they must have flaws and they must have made mistakes. Since you know so much about Stalin and Hoxha I was figuring you could describe some of these flaws. Then once the flaws of these individuals is understood I don't understand the obsession with them, shouldn't we follow science and not individual dogmas?

I asked you if you could find identify any flaws in Hoxha and you replied that "I cannot find any in him" so at the time you didn't identify Hoxha's conservatism as a flaw.

Furthermore, I never stated that the opposition to hair is a pillar is a fundamental pillar of Marxism-Leninism. My previous point was that Marx, Lenin, and Hoxha were all flawed individuals, we should identify with science rather then the dogma of flawed individuals. This is best represented by the tendency scientific communism.

I don't see how you can reasonably state that Hoxha's attacks on long haired people aren't flawed. Its like I said before, everyone including Hoxha has flaws.

Comrade Mao Zedong said "dogma is less useful then cow dung." I agree with this point and I think we should abandon all dogmatic attachments to flawed individuals such as Hoxha and create an ideology that is adapted to modern conditions.