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  • Killercat103@slrpnk.nettoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•C-communism is when rich elites...?
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    24 days ago

    I get what you’re going for but communism isn’t synonymous with Marxism-Leninism even if it eventually became the dominant ideology under the communist umbrella. I mean the term even predate Marx’s birth

    Some of the tendencies you see i attribute to vanguardism and somewhat to democratic centralism. Lenin proosed the need for a disciplined revolutionary party (the vanguard) which differs from marx’s ideas that the working class will organize itself organically and eventually seize power which would be the dictatorship of the proletariat. How democratic the dictatorship of the proletariat would be differs from who you ask but essentally it refers to the rule of the working class as opposed to the bourgeoisie which does not necessarily translate to a dictatorship but rather who holds the dominant political power.

    Marx did have a lot of beef with anarchists during the first international and how often he engaged with them in good faith is uncertain so take the following with a bit of salt. But i find it interesting that in his engagement with anarchists or specifically with a text Sergey Nechayev wrote he mockingly responded claiming it to be a display of crude and authoritarian form of communism (barracks communism) and critized it for what he claimed to proposing a very unaccountable system beholden to a overarching comitee. While he used this as an excuse for the expulsion of the anarchists in the first internationale, I find it very interesting how the man who the soviet union claims to take from even critized an anarchist for being authoritarian. In general i personally find very much interest in socialist ideologies that do not take from more authoritarian tendencies. To name a few, orthodox marxism, council communism, anarcho-communism or libertarianism (not the lassiez faire kind the older kind) I believe to find very much contrast in compared to to more authoriarian ideologies. BTW thanks for reading all that. I know that was kinda disproportinally long but its very interesting and does get complicated fast.

  • Killercat103@slrpnk.nettoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•It brings me no pleasure to have to point this out, but if you're looking for some democracy that needs protecting, I know a guy...
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    2 months ago

    Personally kind of radical even for the social democracy i live in so I’m heavily biased but I feel like when people do talk about US-American democracy democracy as a term (rule of the people) is doing so much heavy lifting to maybe a comical extent.

    While the Republican party is obviously much worse the Democratic party was still garbage. As an outsider I’m getting the impression that a lot of the momentum Trump was getting was repurposing radical thought because people while not understanding at all what Trump was doing and are at best naive felt unrepresented, abondened and overlooked and often rightfully so. That the election race was like it was does not feel like a coincidence but rather a show of how undemocratic the system really is. Besides its not like the system has not sponsored a range of fascistic coups externally to further its own interests.

    Im rambling but I kind of see a liberal election as being able to pick your opposition, not your allies.