I won’t downvote anything

  • CrimeDad
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    9 days ago

    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.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      249 days ago

      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.

      • CrimeDad
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        59 days ago

        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.)

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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          159 days ago

          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.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          Allow me to shamelessly plug my introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, if you don’t mind! Lenin is a phenomenal author and is critical to modern theory. You can come to your own conclusions, but the works of Lenin I cite in my list I would consider the “essentials,” and the works preceding them in the reading order to be helpful in contextualizing them.

    • 小莱卡
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      9 days ago

      When have the anarchists accomplished anything? The people itself should keep their goverment honest.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • 小莱卡
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          159 days ago

          you gotta be delusional if you think those things were accomplished by anarchists lmao