It's finally happened. r/communism is formally a Gonzaloite cesspool. This happened after a few months of openly displaying the Shining Path hammer & sickle as the sub's logo.
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If any communist doesnt just call themself a communist unless asked to be more specific they should be met with deep distrust.
A deep distrust? Literally why? What's so sinister about someone calling themselves a Marxist? I think it's understandable in a world where words like "socialist" have been corrupted to mean liking Sweden and Bernie Sanders. If we're talking about someone saying they support the shining path or some other esoteric stuff, yeah it might be cause for concern, but that concern I think should be a lot more to do with the boiling babies than simply with someone being specific about their political perspective/analysis. In fact I think being specific about one's analysis being guided by Marxist theory is very valuable in a political landscape where the actual nature of communist theory and politics is so misunderstood.
To quote Lenin "Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism".
I'm at a point where I don't even think communists need to be more specific unless they are actively a member of an organization that follows a particular strategy deliberately aligned with whatever tendency. As in, unless a person is physically performing leftist action in the real world I don't see major distinctions between disparate groups of people in the west based on vague affinity for certain political philosophies.
Like what even is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist if it's a person whose primary affiliation with like minded people is a discord channel or a sub reddit? Is it just a posting style or something you can announce affiliation with all willy nilly. Like I'm reminded of the libertarians who have all these goofy subgroups like ancaps, argorists, minarchists, etc and yet these groups have no consequence outside of forum arguments.
I'm not excluding myself in this by the way. I haven't done proper work in a few years, and even when I did I floated through both Marxist and anarchist groups so the specific ideological label thing never sat right with me. I'm just communist. Theory is fun to talk about and argue over but like we're all in the same boat here
This is exactly my attitude as well. We're light-years away from a scenario where even ML vs. anarchist might truly matter for anything beyond a choice of day-to-day tactics (and I think there's room for different orgs pursuing different tactics), much less ML vs. MLM. I'll work with anyone pursuing the destruction of global capitalism and its replacement with anything that isn't even worse. In my experience, these sectarian differences matter very little to most people doing direct action in the real world. Organizations that are super preoccupied with ideological purity and never working with people who have a different "flavor" of communism are rarely doing much that's important anyway.
100% in an org I used to be a part of we had anarchists, MLs, an MLMs working together and would always joke about sectarianism and who was going to band together to beat up one of the other tendency aligned members. Nobody fucking cares what you call yourself if you are doing the work.
Trots lmao
Trorts catching strays by omission lol
Yeah unless you are part of a party or an active movement that is doing praxis right now I dont see the point in calling myself a posadist-with neo-swiss characteristics or something like that.