Yeah, Lenin's Imperialism is a bit difficult to follow unless you have a pretty firm grasp on the contemporary debates and personalities that Lenin's referring to.
As for differing theories,...
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Yeah, Lenin's Imperialism is a bit difficult to...Yeah, Lenin's Imperialism is a bit difficult to follow unless you have a pretty firm grasp on the contemporary debates and personalities that Lenin's referring to.
As for differing theories,...
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Actually, what initially got me involved with...Actually, what initially got me involved with socialism was a series of old books from my mothers travels. She toured all of eastern Europe as a young adult (in Gorbachev's time) and had a crapload...
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Yes, and of that a decent 200 million in the...Yes, and of that a decent 200 million in the least comprising peasantry, who fought alongside the workers during the revolution, hell, even lead the actual armed struggle. Nobody questions why the...
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Russia was also a backwards agrarian society at...Russia was also a backwards agrarian society at the time of the Russian revolution. This doesn't mean that Lenin said it was "necessary" to allow capitalism to develop fully so that socialism could...
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This is more or less my point. At various times...This is more or less my point. At various times Lenin claimed that it would be possible for socialism to exist in a single country, at a time when a global revolution is in a lull, but that it would...
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"That wealth is quite exclusive, and the tendency..."That wealth is quite exclusive, and the tendency is for it to become more so each day, as it becomes concentrated into an ever shrinking number of hands, shunning the lower echelons of the middle...
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This is more or less what Lenin and Stalin had to...This is more or less what Lenin and Stalin had to say. That it was possible for socialism to exist in a single nation, as an "island" within a capitalist world, but that there needs to be a struggle...
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It has nothing to do with Trotsky's criticism of...It has nothing to do with Trotsky's criticism of "socialism in one country". This comrade here is just trying to contend that since "socialism in one country" was promoted by Stalin, that makes it a...
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Essentially - China was a backwards feudal...Essentially - China was a backwards feudal country when Mao took power, and capitalism had yet to fully develop there. As such, he argued it was necessary to allow capitalism to further develop...
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Yes, this the is Maoist theory. And that's...Yes, this the is Maoist theory. And that's exactly what I'm trying to point out - according to Mao, there's nothing really un-socialist about allowing for capitalism, so long as you do it with the...
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Mostly. Anarchism is a critique of power, unlike...Mostly. Anarchism is a critique of power, unlike Marx's critique of capital they see anyone that "doesn't exploit" as "workers". That ends up including a whole wack of people we wouldn't consider...
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Feudal serfs and classical craft workers were...Feudal serfs and classical craft workers were much better off before being driven to the proletariat, if that's what you mean. History shows that they more or less worked 8 hour days, had plenty of...
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Seriously. You just acknowledged that they're...Seriously. You just acknowledged that they're different, and then somehow dismissed them because they're "both wrong", which somehow makes them the same thing. I can think of a thousand and one...
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Sam Webb is the general secretary of the CPUSA,...Sam Webb is the general secretary of the CPUSA, pretty much unanimously criticized by every other organization around the world as revisionist (even those organizations which themselves are referred...
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I never stated that Trotsky had anything to say...I never stated that Trotsky had anything to say on the subject, I'm talking about Stalin. Now, I would argue that allowing for self-determination rights for nations when it could potentially detract...
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I see proletarians, peasants and petite-bourgeois...I see proletarians, peasants and petite-bourgeois (specifically those who're at risk of being proletarianized and those who would side with workers), but none of this national bourgeoisie. Even on...
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You're serious. You see very little to no...You're serious. You see very little to no difference between, say, Hoxhaists - about as far on the spectrum of "anti-revisionism" as you can go - and those that are identified as "revisionist...
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Syndicalism and Leninism differ in tactics more...Syndicalism and Leninism differ in tactics more than goals, they're actually fairly similar. And also, "Syndicalism" is more of an umbrella term than a concrete ideology - it just basically described...
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Seeing as up until at least 1949 Maoists were...Seeing as up until at least 1949 Maoists were advocating regulation of capitalism in favour of socialism and were promoting direct co-operation with the bourgeoisie, I have serious doubts that there...
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Okay, I'd just like to clarify your opinion here...Okay, I'd just like to clarify your opinion here - anyone who didn't align themselves with critics of the Soviet Union under Stalin (Such as Trotsky) or the Russian revolution itself (such as...
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I retract my statement - a little bit of research...I retract my statement - a little bit of research shows that I was wrong, despite his siding with China in the Sino-Soviet split Hoxha's ideology was definitely not Maoist.
What doesn't it...
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Generally regarded? By whom? You?
...Generally regarded? By whom? You?
Marxist-Leninists by-and-large do not identify as Stalinists. The so-called mainstream communist parties identify as Marxist-Leninist, but by-and-large criticize...
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By the numbers we have the largest numbers of...By the numbers we have the largest numbers of clubs in the country, especially if you include its sister organization the YCL-LJC. The only organization which comes close to us in numbers is the...
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Yes, we can see they clearly made a concerted...Yes, we can see they clearly made a concerted effort to get rid of the capitalist class. :laugh:
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Maoists, how do you justify the "Bloc of the Four Social Classes"I'm curious, how do Maoists on this forum justify Mao's theories on collaboration with the bourgeoisie?
This seems to suggest that Mao openly promoted developing capitalism in China through...