Anarchist Communist with influences from nihilism, individualist anarchism, syndicalism, Marx n Engels and so on
leninist
Marxist leninist
Trotskyist
left communist
anarchist
Other (specify)
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tendency?
What is your tendency?
If other please specify.
I have no idea how to start a poll so sorry.
1. leninist
2 . Marxist leninist
3. Trotskyist
4. Left communist
5. Anarchist
6 other (specify)
Anarchist Communist with influences from nihilism, individualist anarchism, syndicalism, Marx n Engels and so on
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
trotskyists, Marxist-leninists and many left communists (it varies for the lefts but many uphold much of Lenin) consider themselves leninists. Plus you got your social democrats, your Kauts (Orthodox Marxism), your ultra lefts, your councilists and a couple more. Not to mention many of these categories can then be broken down a bit more.
"We must flee from Time, we must create a life that is feminine and human - it is these imperative objectives that must guide us in this world heavy with catastrophes."
Jacques Camatte, Echos from the Past
"For example, to say that the relation between industrial capital and the class of the wage workers is expressed in precisely the same way in Belgium and Thailand, and that the praxis of their respective struggles should be established without taking into account in either of the two cases the factors of race or nationality, does not mean you are an extremist, but it means in effect that you have understood nothing of Marxism."
Amadeo Bordiga, Factors of Race and Nation in the Marxist Analysis
Most people who have a tendency actually put it in their tendency line in their profile, so that people will be aware.
Amusing how many leftcoms there are.
Anarchists and Left-Coms make up the majority of the board.
But notice how Marxist seems to be missing.
In the real world the majority of communists are M-Ls and M-L-Ms. Just this board is fucked.
In the poll? I have no idea how I forgot that lol
(To Phoenixash)
5 MLs= 1 left comm. Quantitative into a qualitative change- dialectics.
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
"Left communists"
"We must flee from Time, we must create a life that is feminine and human - it is these imperative objectives that must guide us in this world heavy with catastrophes."
Jacques Camatte, Echos from the Past
"For example, to say that the relation between industrial capital and the class of the wage workers is expressed in precisely the same way in Belgium and Thailand, and that the praxis of their respective struggles should be established without taking into account in either of the two cases the factors of race or nationality, does not mean you are an extremist, but it means in effect that you have understood nothing of Marxism."
Amadeo Bordiga, Factors of Race and Nation in the Marxist Analysis
What do you mean?
"What is necessary is to go beyond any false opposition of programme versus spontaneity. Communism is both the self-activity of the proletariat and the rigorous theoretical critique that expresses and anticipates it."
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"...Stalinism is eternally condemned to govern capital, and the ideological dynamics of Stalinism are tied to this peculiar type of capital management; it is locked within this framework, reproducing the logic of capitalism under the veil of communism. For this reason, Stalinism, and its various derivatives, cannot accurately be regarded as communist if we choose to define it in materialist terms." - Tim Cornelis
Probably that he thinks that other left-coms and not real left-coms
Or maybe the opposite. But then it's disputable whether MLs are communists at all.
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i'm a communist with an infantile disorder.
No strict tendency, I prefer to think of myself as a communist without adjectives, recognising that even even those from within a tendency I might not necessarily agree with might still actually have something worthwhile to say.
I suppose I tick the boxes of a Left Leninist in many ways, but I'd hesitate to fully embrace the label of 'Leninist' lest I implicitly forfeit the insights that many from other tendencies might have to contribute.
I feel there's some irony in a follower of Bakunin telling me that I'm not a communist.
“Socialism cannot abstract itself from individual interests. Socialist society alone can most fully satisfy these personal interests. More than that; socialist society alone can firmly safeguard the interests of the individual. In this sense there is no irreconcilable contrast between “individualism” and socialism. But can we deny the contrast between classes, between the propertied class, the capitalist class, and the toiling class, the proletarian class?” - Josef Stalin, Marxism Versus Liberalism: An Interview With H.G. Wells, 1934
"Those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, ‘I am ideological’." - Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1969
Neo-Bakuninism is a joke tendency.
Or DNZ neologism, but that's not really mutually exclusive.
Try again.
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Libertarian Marxist or Marxian Anarcho-Communist.
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property." - Assata Shakur
I've become more and more unable to associate myself with any specific tendency/ideology/whatever as time goes on. I'm much too disagreeable and nitpicky about every little thing to describe myself as an X or a Y, knowing that people will assume Z about me based on something that I disagree with the majority of the tendency about. Right now I have tabs open with unfinished readings from both Bakunin and Mao. And although I originally got into the whole idea of "communism" from reading Lenin, I have a particular fondness for Emma Goldman's writings and even quoted her earlier today in another post. Tentatively speaking, when pressed, I answer that I'm an anarchist-communist, but I still draw from Lenin fairly extensively and haven't made up my mind about him as a revolutionary one way or another.
I want to just be able to say I'm not sure and need to research more, but I said the same thing years ago and I'm even more lost now than I was before. The entire debate at this point strikes me kinda like a game of revolutionary team sports where the tendencies, when they're not just trolling each other about some shit that neither side fully understands, are at each other's throats about some shit that happened 200 years ago... that we'll never be able to definitively answer because the information to do so just isn't there. And then when I make a post it always ends up being way too long and full of frivolous information, none of which I feel I can cut out that would allow me to maintain the same accuracy in conveying my thoughts.
Fuck if I know
