What would good comrade Lenin do
The Deprogram sub when Hakim quotes Deng Xiaoping (they still don’t get that the podcast is 75% ML)
Preaching to the choir here, but man it really seems like all these “I’m a different kind of socialist/communist” boutique tendencies with like 3 adherents are a kind of outflow of the western progressive’s desire to have good beliefs in the face of obvious capitalist evil colliding with a lifetime of anticommunist propaganda that makes them shirk the label unless it has a million little qualifiers tacked on. Like they want to triangulate a position that will get them the cool rebel clout but that also doesnt have the historical baggage that would impede them from moving into PMC circles. They want to vive Cube but still shit on le CCP. They want it all in one bag, but they don’t want the bag to be heavy. They want diet, zero sugar communism.
Well no, that’s giving them too much credit. They want to be lauded as cool sexy revolutionaries while still enjoying the treats of imperialism.
the western progressive’s desire to have good beliefs in the face of obvious capitalist evil colliding with a lifetime of anticommunist propaganda that makes them shirk the label unless it has a million little qualifiers tacked on
this was so well put and extremely accurate. it wasn’t that long ago that I was reading marx and absorbing myself in history but still battling with this removedling little propaganda bug in my brain telling me that it’s somehow inherently wrong. i wanted to talk about it with people without having to be on the backfoot defending legitimate tragedies as well as propaganda. it took me awhile to realize that’s the exact position capital wants to keep communism in.
They want diet, zero sugar communism.
should be writing opinion pieces or articles or something, you have a good way with words
If you list an incredibly specific thing instead of a currently-active political party, you’re not a serious leftist and are in fact an online larper.
Kautkysim is somewhat still a thing just as bersteinism and even lassalism, just not separate. It was Lasalle that put the cornerstone of today socialdemocracy, Bernstein bastardised marxism to the point of being outwardly similar but opposite in actual idea, and Kautsky propelled that to the socialimperialism.
But it isn’t being called Lassalism-Bernsteinism-Kautskyism, it’s just being called “socialdemocracy”. Most succdems just don’t know nor care about their origins. This one is a rare one that do know at least something.
What too much (online) theory does to a mfers
What is with that place? Are they ML, or just a bunch of edgy western leftists? Or both?
There’s some ML there, but for most regulars dialectical materialism and understanding of imperialism is sorely lacking and shallow. They also often have centrist and proreligious threads there.
Tbf Hakim and yugo are religious so I don’t find the pro religious threads to be surprising
It is surprising in the place claiming to be marxist, i don’t mean the usual discussion about tactical relations to religion but massive apologia.
