I think tankies have good theories about the end game, but I just think they’re being overly optimistic at the prospects of revolutionary socialism in the 21st century, at least in the states.
The unions (there isn’t a union movement today) are reactionary, military also reactionary (because troop worship, jingoism, camaros, and free college; fuc you I got mine mentality), and just a general feeling of “things aren’t that bad as long as I have TV and internet”.
That’s why I am still a DemSoc, as infuriating as it is…
We’ll that and thinking that blindly saying that china and the ussr are good while also being unscientific in your analysis doesn’t make you a lenninst. it makes you the walking stereo type of a ‘ML’ people refer to when they call lenninists tankies. This is a great discredit to the entire ideological framework of dialectic materialism and historic materialism.
Specifically, I think Revolution of Everyday Life by Vaneigm is the text most beneficial to Leninist. It engages with the question of revolutionary strategy in a way that is based on a real revolutionary moment, but comes from a different philosophical starting place.
Read Lenin, Comrades
The most liberating thing in my life was when I stopped pretending I wasn’t furious and embraced the label of commie
i think bernie losing flipped a switch with me, then i started reading more stuff on the soviet union and china and its just making me more of one…
dont think im the only one here with that experience lol
I don’t really understand how you could guarantee everyone the healthcare they need with a decentralized economy, honestly.
