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3 things that piss you off about the far left/ you think holds it back
1) Sectarianism.
2) Stalinism.
3) Arrogance.
Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51
Serious doubts about this thread....but I'll play for now.
I think the thing that holds the revolutionary left back is dogmatism and the slow development and implementation of new ideas which counter act the wisest path of thesis, antithesis and synthesis which would make the revolutionary left far more flexible and adaptable to chages in society.
1) Our marginality. It's hard to accomplish much when you're just scraping by.
2) The endless dominance games, including thinly veiled white, dude, and straight supremacy.
3) The lack of genuine human affection and emotional intensity.
I could go on and on.
"Unless revolution uproots the basic social organisation, the biological family - the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled - the tapeworm of exploitation will never be annihilated."
- Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex
I'd say something about the lines of:
1) Sectarianism
2) Marginality
3) People's ignorance about what the revolutionnary left really is.
Nothing to see here move along.
1. Jews
2. SSTALINISTSS
3. srs threads
But no, seriously:
1. Not enough time since the end of the Cold War.
2. neoliberal gloating everywhere and nationalist renaissances in some places.
3. Shitty politics among the left. Reformists and sellouts.
4. Basic ignorance about the world among much of the working class, such as american exceptionalism. This is thanks to the ruling class.
Wait that's 4...
So sectarianism pisses you most of you and than you use a sectarian slur that Trotskyites use to cover people from social democrats or ultra-leftist psychoes? Bit dim that.
1. Child abuse apologists.
2. Trotskyites because they are lying scum and often trendy wankers and child abuse apologists on top of that.
3. People who want to be nice to Trotskyites.
1) Worship of the Soviet Union and every action ever undertaken by the Soviet Union or any Soviet citizen, even those which would otherwise be condemned had they been undertaken by / in any other country, on the assumption that the Soviet Union was absolutely perfect and wonderful in every possible way, and any seeming imperfection is just an illusion which can be excused by the revolutionary nature of said imperfection.
2) Discounting any argument, no matter how solid, by saying 'but Marx said...'
3) Use of words to the effect of 'Maoism is the most superior form of Marxist thought, as proven by the fact that the Maoist cadre is spilling rivers of blood across the world in the fight for global liberation...and what are you guys doing, except taking money to spy for the Nepalis?' by people currently living in Norwich.
2. Imperialist apologists
3. Liberalism
3 more:
1. People like Kassad claiming Marxism-Leninism.
2. People like Mao claiming anti-revisionism.
3. Asshats like the FRSO.
1. White guilt.
2. Political correctness.
3. Jewish corruption. like marx
1) Hats
2) Shoes
3) Canes
1. Z
2. O
3. G
1. M-L's who support North Korea
2. Those who say "STALIN=HITLER"
3. RevLeft users who use threads as a way to throw a temper tantrum about their restriction (congratulations on that, by the way).
Ummmmm...... anyone else notice this?
fka xx1994xx
1. Maoist Rebel News
2. The Vegan Marxist
3. Revleft
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
You don't feel his little uniform attracts people to the cause, then?
It doesn't look dirty enough, as though he just got back from the battlelines of waging war... at the mall.
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
1- Inability to relate to the working class or hold any political ground.
2- Stubbornness of hanging onto conventional Marxist dogma.
3- Lack of participation in the electoral process (in the British isles).
We live in a new time when its Islam and islamic extremism is the new bogeyman. The left needs to take advantage of the distraction and re-invent itself.
Well, where else are you supposed to wage war these days?
FKA Comrade Ducky
Question everything, answer to no one.
MAKE TOTAL DESTROY, not war.
"This duck is a nuclear duck and it's time the world started calling a duck a duck."-Benjamin Netanyahu
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."- Adam Savage
