Everyone romanticizes the act of revolution as the short burst of violence, but that is only the climax of something much bigger. Of course it should be regarded as marvelous, even cathartic event, but it is only so because of everything behind it. Revolutions, like in films, build up to that climax, revolutions are hard work, work of years, even decades. You can't have a communist revolution without communists, and communists aren't born, they are "made". And this is the task of our generation I think.
Precisely, that is one of my main sources of despair on this regard, that we are much more alone than we think we are. As of now, I think that our task is, while defending the legacy of the enlightenment and the democratic standards that not even liberals will; to rebuild (or even plainly build) a new communist movement, spreading our ideas, becoming universal and rejecting cliquish individualism. People constantly attack Zizek but he is the prime example of what is to be done (no pun intended) to revitalize the left, because he alone has done lots of revitalizing, in some way it shows if one person alone (as an example, not excluding others) can bring left revolutionary politics the way he has, imagine what could we do if there was an entire leftist movement. Theorists and intellectuals are as important as fighters.
Hi, just wanted to drop by and thank you for you insightful posts. Could you drop by the Left demographics thread? I'm interested on what's your opinion on the situation. Who's the man on your avatar by the way?
Ach so, dachte nur vielleicht hab ich es nicht anständig geschickt
Hast du eigentlich meine Anwort bekommen? Kann in meinem Postausgang keine sehen.
That seems like the sensible position to take, although I believe Leninist is also appropriate, to distinguish oneself from anti-Leninist Marxists (who these days are an anachronism or just closet anarchists/left communists). In the end though it only means something to us; Marxism-Leninism is often considered even by many ignorant academics to mean the embodiment of Marxism and Leninism.
Where you place yourself in terms of Marxist thought? Your posts speak to me and got me interested in Bordiga a little more than I already was (his thesis on the USSR is particularly enthralling). Are you a Bordigist yourself? I find "Organic Centralism" to be pretty contemptible and anti-Marxist so I stray away from the label myself - not they matter so much.
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