krishna bound

4y

I’m sympathetic to most communist causes (except like most western ones) but at the end of the day I think socialism works for a different reason than most people who identify as communist do
I don’t really disagree with most underlying principals from Marx in terms of economics but the way I see it applied I think differentiates from most self-identified communists essentially
I’ve mentioned it before but the existence of superstructural issues w/o base solutions I also think plays a large role in this thought process. I also question the nature of things like contradictions as opposed to natural phenomena.
None of this is inherently dispelling of the ideology but group labels carry wider implications in any society and I live in the west, and the political action & policy ideals I subscribe to differentiate too much from the norm of said group for me to identify in that manner outwardly

Sir Real

4y

I feel like Maoism addresses your issues with base/superstructure

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Why so

Sir Real

4y

A large part of Maoism is the position that there is a degree of superstructural independence from the base that causes it to also impact and shape the base as opposed to the sort of one way understanding of “base creates superstructure” that more orthordox marxisms have. The base is still the more fundamental and dominant aspect, but the resulting ideology can and does become so strong that it in turn impacts how the base is organized to a degree, or at least how this organization is implemented. There are of course cultural factors that play into this too that don’t simply derive from the base’s resulting ideology. This is why we say there is a need for a cultural revolution - a “revolution within a revolution” following a period of revolutionizing the base.

Hopefully that makes some sense, I’m hungover and not articulating this as well as I normally would

Scratchin Mamba

4y

I see what you mean and agree with most of what you said. My own reading of Marx isn't that the base wholly determines the superstructure and I don't think most Marxists do either except some who are very dogmatic. Gramsci of course elaborated on the role of the superstructure a lot and MLs don't denounce him as "revisionist" for that. Maoism's theoretical contribution to the relation of the base and superstructure how I see it is mostly in how it should be dealt with in practice with cultural revolution, not necessarily that the superstructure is merely epiphenomenal to the base, I think that had alreadt been established earlier.

Sir Real

4y

I agree that a correct reading of Marx lends itself to this interpretation, and that people like Gramsci got at a lot of this same stuff as well

For a long time tho this wasn’t really something that the Marxist movement properly grappled with and it was considered “revisionist” to some degree. It may be true that most Marxists now acknowledge this, but Maoism emphasizes as a central and crucial point of a***ysis. Particularly because failure to grasp this was one of Stalin’s biggest errors and this amongst other things really opened the door for revisionism to take hold and become such a detrimental force in the USSR

SEGA GOON

4y

I dont think so

Womanpuncher69

4y

ngl Napoleon was hard as s***

Womanpuncher69

4y

ngl Napoleon was hard as s***

Womanpuncher69

4y

ngl Napoleon was hard as s***

Womanpuncher69

4y

ngl Napoleon was hard as s***

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Why

Womanpuncher69

4y

just as a central figure in that time period that influenced a s*** ton

americana

4y

I was watching this Netflix show narrated by Peter Dinklage on “tyrants” and the Stalin segment makes no attacks on Lenin. Even the tsar got flak but not lenin

Sir Real

4y

You are braver than me. I watched the trailer for that and was like

americana

4y

It was terrible

Clips of Fidel Castro and spreading multiple lies about the CPC and the Bolshevik parties as wel

Womanpuncher69

4y

ngl Napoleon was hard as s***

Scratchin Mamba

4y

What they say abt Fidel?

americana

4y

Didn’t see anything from what I watched

Scratchin Mamba

4y

What abt the Bolsheviks