I won’t downvote anything
Tankies don’t have a solution for what to do when you and your homies are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand, and one friend won’t shut up about how everybody should go into the marsh.
Maybe anarchists are necessary to help keep the revolutionary state honest. However, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call myself an anti-Leninist.
When have the anarchists accomplished anything? The people itself should keep their goverment honest.
Every day; all sorts of stuff from simply feeding people to high level assassinations, including a POTUS. Anarchism is a means by which the people can embarrass the government and compel corrective action to its deficiencies.
Paid holidays, 8 hour shifts, women’s ability to vote, same-sex marriages and LGTBIQ+ rights in general… Those are ideals and achievements that started in anarchism.
you gotta be delusional if you think those things were accomplished by anarchists lmao
Honestly, I find there’s a lot of overlap between Marxism and Anarcho-syndicalism, and I think this is essentially the correct way for the workforce to be organized.
For a while, that’s probably how I would have sorted myself, but how are the anarcho-syndicalists on taking power from capital and wielding it? How does that differ from Lenin’s guidance? (Part of why I don’t call myself an anti-Leninist is that I haven’t read any Lenin lol.)
As far I’m aware, Anarcho-syndicalists don’t really provide a solution for changing the system as a whole. Meanwhile, Lenin focused specifically on achieving a socialist revolution. Lenin primarily dealt with the task of organizing and education the masses to create a revolutionary force that would be able to seize power from the capitalists. The two most prominent works I’d recommend starting with would be What Is To be Done? and The State and Revolution.
Lennin’s “state and revolution” and accepting China as a communist country are in conflict with each other. Most tankies or “Marxist-Lenninist” are distorting both Marx and Lennin. Communism in one country can not exists for long without a global overthrow of the capitalist class. Yes, the state in these various countries control the economy more or less, but who controls the state? My assertion, and most other Trotskyists, is that its not the workers.
We addressed this point on Prolewiki: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China#Abandoning_of_Marxism/Capitalist_restoration
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China#Democracy_and_popular_opinion
China is actually a democracy
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Isn’t always true. Just because a country/political faction opposes US hegemony doesn’t automatically make them morally superior.
Even tho we don’t care about it, the US holds no moral high ground on any country. The US certainly doesn’t care about it either when they support “socialist” forces in Syria, like the SDF, while also supporting headchoppers like HTS. Everything goes as long as it advances their interests.
That’s not what MLs actually believe, we have the concept of critical support. It’s the act of backing a cause, group, or individual while maintaining a clear-eyed critique of their flaws, contradictions, or harmful actions. It’s not unconditional endorsement but a pragmatic stance that balances solidarity with accountability.
Tankie is a broad term. Are u just an idealist commie or do u legitimately support genocidal regimes?
I would like you to look into the commonalities in teaching methods between your beliefs/community, religion, neo Nazis, and ideological indoctrination in general. Look at the classic applications such as redefining meanings of words, the complete denial of descenting opinions simply because they are descenting, the belief in something greater than oneself etc etc.
I would like you to write down your most fundamental beliefs then right down your best argument for those beliefs then I want you to write you best argument to disprove that belief.
I would like you to come up with as many contradictions within your own ideology as possible without rationalising that contradictory belief to yourself.
I’d like u to read nineteen eighty four and then write an argument how the practice’s of big brother have been used to indoctrinate you. Then right an argument against that argument.
I’m not here to tell you how to live or what to think I’d just like you to legitimately challenge your own thoughts to the best of your ability.
Good luck on your journey to becoming a free thinker.
I’d like u to read nineteen eighty four and then write an argument how the practice’s of big brother have been used to indoctrinate you.
I’d like you to read Isaac Asimov’s review of 1984, followed by Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf, and finally the Orwell’s list wikipedia article, and then to ponder what you yourself might have been indoctrinated by.
Isn’t 1984 a fictional book?
Have heard people say online that Inventing Reality and Manufactured Consent are better than that for analysis.
Haven’t read any of those books tho.
Which would be better?1984 was intended as fictional. Eric Blair wrote it in 1948.
I’m not sure that it is anymore.
His books are all pretty good. “Down and out in Paris and London” (or is it London and Paris? It’s been a minute) is one of my favourites.
Don’t you mean George Orwell?
And yes, it’s fictional, but it’s a condemnation of Stalinism.
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Blair.
Blair was a communist, from what I remember, but started to see what socialism was really like and gradually reverted his attitude.
Animal Farm is along the same line but an easy read for kids.
10·10 hours agoRacist, imperial cop, rapist, worker hating, Eric Blair? That guy?
I know he started as a communist/socialist but began to change his mind over time.
His books changed their political leanings over time; for my interpretation at least.
Meh if you want a good critique of the Bolsheviks by somebody who actually was an old Bolshevik check out the book We instead.
