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Because my tendency seeks to destroy all division within the revolutionary working class.
"It is necessary for Communists to enter into contradiction with the consciousness of the masses. . . The problem with these Transitional programs and transitional demands, which don't enter into any contradiction with the consciousness of the masses, or try to trick the masses into entering into the class struggle, create soviets - [is that] it winds up as common-or-garden reformism or economism." - Mike Macnair, on the necessity of the Minimum and Maximum communist party Program.
"You're lucky. You have a faith. Even if it's only Karl Marx" - Richard Burton
I am a Trot. To me" Trotskyism" represents the continuing development of revolutionary Marxism. This includes the theory of Permanent revolution and the Theory of Combined and Uneven Development. These ideas were mentioned or were implicit in the thought of Marx and were further developed by Trotsky, Lenin, and many others.
Those in the Trotskyist tradition, such as Ted Grant, have offered the best explanation of Third World Left Bonapartist regimes such as Syria, Libya, etc.
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget
Arundhati Roy
Lenina Rosenweg is a glorious beacon of light
I support a vanguard party, leading a people's war to gain power and then using the aggrivation of class warfare to purge the enemies of the working class and supporting the permant revolution around the world. So I consider myself a Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist-Maoist or MLTSM for short
Historically proven method to achieve things. Sure, it hasnt won every time, and most of the success brought on by it have been rolled back drastically and groups adhering to it in name tend to do so, in name only. But, i feel it is quite a useful method. To treat the party as a weapon of sorts to wage class war with and all of that.
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
I am hoping this is deliberate irony
Great respect 4 Lenina, no respect for Ted Grant
With respect, I do not see how Ted Grant is "in the Trotskyist tradition." He walked out of the international movement a long time ago, and the characteristic stance of his tendency, everlasting, permanent entrism, with zero exit strategy, is foreign to Trotskyism, which, concerning entrism, counsels, "Get in, recruit everyone you can, then get out." I have not found any place where Trotsky indicates that revolutionaries should spend their entire careers building the imperialist, pro-war, pro-banning orders British Labour Party of Blair and Brown, which is Grant's proudest achievement.
As far as Bonapartism is concerned, the Grantists deny that Chávez is a Bonapartist, which is surely incorrect. Chávez' entire politics is mediating between classes, and, after what?, nearly a decade and a half in power, Chávez' "Bolivarian revolution" has left the Venezuelan bourgeois state entirely unscathed, which makes Chávez not a revolutionary at all, but merely a typical caudillo, and a very successful Bonapartist, since, in a period of mass activism, the workers and their allies have, under Chávez' leadership, not overthrown bourgeois rule.
If we really want to transform life, we must learn to look at it through the eyes of women. – Trotsky, 1923
The ballot box is the coffin of class consciousness. – Alan Dawley
Proud member of the 47% since 2010 – Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
Because this is where the action's at. Also I take internationalism seriously so that kind of drew me to trotskyism, and the CWI specifically.
"I want to say sweet, silly things." - V.I Lenin
I'd say somewhere in the vicinity of Marxism-Leninism and strictly Orthodox Trotskyism.
"Machinery in itself is a victory of man over the forces of nature, but in the hands of capital it makes man the slave of those forces" - Uncle Karl
You're a bit late, Impossibilists started getting elected into parliament over a century ago
http://www.worldsocialism.org/canada...n.politics.htm
