Marxism is a revolutionary methodology rooted in dialectical/historical materialism. To be a Marxist is to be a communist. Marxism is not simply an analysis, it is the scientific weapon of liberation of the colonized/oppressed/exploited. It is the weapon of the exploited world.
It's hilarious that so many people will claim China is colonizing Africa and yet have never engaged with what socialist/communist parties in Africa have to say about the matter. Typical western leftist chauvinism.
The state is not some inherent evil. This is a metaphysical binary that serves no purpose. The state is the institutions of a society. its function is rooted in the class that owns the means of production, which is why the proletariat must seize it as a tool for liberation.
Queerness and transness has existed throughout human society. Various societies have accepted, rejected or hardly even commented on it. One should not derive some idealist moral analysis from the complex and nuanced progression of history. Conversely, we as queer/trans people...
All I said is that you should analyze Marx's work ( which I am 100% sure y'all have not, but are acting as if you have ) regardless of prejudices that everyone had 150 years ago , and y'all lost your reactionary minds lol.
"Patrotic socialism and MAGA Communism" are a direct result of white socialists/communists/Marxists being incapable/unwilling of actually addressing reactionary idealogy in white communities/political education and organizing spaces. It is a historical unwillingness.
5 black cops beating a black man to death is a clear example of the cops function in society. They exist to maintain the domination of the working class and protect the structures of bourgeois capitalist society. Their skin tone need not matter.
Patsocs are just reactionaries who just slapped Marxism in their bio to try to legitimize themselves. They have no interest in material change for colonized and oppressed people, only an interest in their own class position. They serve no purpose to a revolutionary movement.
Afrocentrism is a black bourgeois project meant to blur the lines of history and present one homogeneous African history devoid of African class struggle. It is a legitimization of the status quo with a dashiki on.
Black nationalists and Pan-Africanists who reject Marxism/scientific socialism are productions of anti-communism. This obsession with a mythical " purely African ideology" is idealist and nonsensical.
There is absolutely nothing worth preserving about a country that is so far into its destruction that mass shootings are an often occurrence. America is not sick, it has been wicked since the beginning.
Fascism and pedophilia go hand and hand. The reason fascists are constantly pretending that children are in danger from queer/trans people is because fascism requires the domination of children. Fascists are not concerned about children, they only want to control them.
There will be no perfect socialism. Socialist revolution and nation building is messy, complex and nuanced work. Not everything will turn out the way many revolutionaries want them to, because that is the reality of material conditions. Revolution isn't perfect, it is necessary.
Fascism never left, nor was it beaten back by the right ideology. This is bourgeois idealism. Fascism is rooted in the accumulation of capital, and as capital continues to centralize into fewer and fewer hands, more people will move into the far-right. This is also a consequence
The notion of a " Black radical tradition" is absurdly idealist. The revolutionary history of Africans throughout the diaspora is rooted in material conditions brought on by colonial-capitalist domination, not some innate revolutionary spirit.
There are no critiques of Marx from the western left that critique Marxist analysis, because the western left critiques are purely ideological. " Marx was racist", " Marx was eurocentric", " Marx wasn't concerned about black people". It hardly ever extends past personal feelings
The DPRK is socialist. The USSR was socialist. Cuba is socialist. The fact this is being " debated " just goes to show the insanity of left internet discourse.
The queer proletariat must always understand that no amount of representation or " inclusion" will ever change our position in society. Identity liberation, like all identity liberation, requires the defeat of the segments of the bourgeois class which exist in said identity.
@AishaDaughter
Marxism is a science rooted in dialectical materialism. Marx focused on Europe because he lived in Europe, just as any African would focus on Africa.
Race, gender and sexual orientation oppression are rooted in class domination. Yes, all forms of identity have unique contexts and require direct engagement, but can't be removed from class analysis. You can never analyze class oppression and identity oppression alone.
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Bernie Sanders didn't push forward "leftism", he co-opted it and dropped it and fell in line when shit got hard. He's a liberal on the international political spectrum, by the way.
I am no longer taking on a specific Marxist/communist tendency. I love and support materialist analysis, revolutionary theory and organizing from all tendencies, and I admittedly got caught up in the sectarian shit. At this point, I am a black queer revolutionary communist.
You can't be anti-capitalist OR anti-imperialist OR anti-colonialist OR anti-white supremacy/racial hierarchy. You are either all of them or none of them.
One of the major problems with western philosophy, and by extension western political thought, is that it views humanity as separate from material reality. This helps to legitimize and maintain bourgeois idealism and individualism in political discourse.
Liberation comes at the expense of individualism. We have to be thinking in a communal manner constantly, always engaging in a communist way of viewing things.
Fascism is not a separate historical development from capitalist society. Fascism is a direct result of the contradiction between capitalist and worker.
A lot of y'all niggas are just idealists and won't admit it. Marxism/scientific socialism will, and always has looked different where it is used due to a variety of interconnected material factors. Marxism is a science, not a fucking magic wand.
Pan-Africanism is a goal, not an ideology. Thee is as much possibility for a bourgeois African capitalist Africa as there is for a socialist one. This is why scientific socialism is not only important to Pan-Africanism, but also necessary.
Racial liberation, queer liberation and women's liberation IS class struggle. They are inherently linked and attempting to achieve one without the others will only lead to failure and reaction.
Presenting race as some material being is liberal idealism. Race only has material force due to its dialectical relationship to class, not through its own being. This is not only true for race, but of all identity.
Democratic centralism is a necessary operating foundation of any organization aiming to achieve a revolutionary goal. Democracy and centralism possess a necessary relationship that revolutionary organizations must always engage with and in.
Atheism is cool. Anti-theism is goofy. As a communist who happens to be an atheist, rejecting religious people ( the majority of the world ) from movements is childish. Our job is not to convince people a god doesn’t exist. It is to propagandize them towards communist revolution.
All critique of historical socialist projects must be rooted in a dialectical and historical materialist worldview. They must be understood through the material conditions they were formed in and the material reasons as to why events occurred. Moralism is an intellectual disease.
Dialectical materialism is not a niche form of analysis that can only be applied to society or history. The whole of reality is dialectical and materialist, and every pursuit of knowledge, regardless of its perceived difference, must be rooted in dialectical materialism.
America is an ongoing attempt for a settler-colonial ethno-state. White supremacy/racial hierarchy are not inconvenient effects of this project, they are necessary structures of it.
Just remember, the vast majority of leftists on the internet are just talking shit and will do nothing in terms of revolutionary education and organizing. Don't stress y'all selves out on these niggas.
HBCU’s do not produce black radicals, black radicals come out of HBCU’s in spite of the HBCU’s function. HBCU’s do and have always functioned in opposition to black liberation movements.
There are many "anti-capitalists" that are not truly anti-capitalists, they are just against THEIR oppression within capitalism. As soon as they have a chance to advance within capitalism, they will turn on their so-called comrades in a heartbeat.
Scientific socialism/dialectical materialism as a framework/worldview understands reality as forever forward moving and eternal. Conservatism, due to its positioning reality as metaphysical and unnecessary of change, is inherently antithetical to this scientific understanding.
Success within capitalism does not justify the brutal and contradictory nature of capitalism. All "success" is a product of exploitation in a capitalist society.
@taygogo
Reactionary defeatism and cynicism mentally and spiritually breaks down movements before they start. Revolutionary optimism is not a suggestion, its a necessity.
Niggas still out here acting like MAGA Communism is a socialist movement. It is a openly bourgeois movement which only seeks to undermine revolutionary organizing and legitimize right wing reaction under the veil of " conservative communism". IT'S BULLSHIT.
Mao's theory of patriotism is not a universal analysis. It was formed in the material colonized conditions of China. It is ridiculous to attempt to apply it to America, which possesses a different position in capitalist society and is rooted in different historical processes.
As long as America exists, there will be no socialist state. There is no combining reactionary American nationalism with revolution. It must be overthrown and then we must build a revolutionary socialist state.
Good and evil are useless in understanding why people and societies function the way they do. Socialization, ideology and material conditions are the basis of social action, whether positive or negative.
Liberals will side with fascists before they allow the systems of capitalism and imperialism to go down the drain of history. They are not your allies.
Dismissal of Marxism/scientific socialism in black spaces is a black bourgeois project. The black bourgeoisie has a vested interest in capitals legitimization in the eyes of labor. The black bourgeoisie and black proletariat are always and will always be at odds because of this.
As a black, queer non-binary leftist, communism isn't just a nice suggestion to me. Its necessary. Communism is the only way we will ever actually be free in any material way. Communism is a necessity, not a suggestion.
Conservatism is anti-dialectical. Culture changes over time due to interconnected material and social factors constantly engaging each other. Elements of culture that stand to legitimize oppression must be struggled against and dominated out of existence.
Social democracy and democratic socialism are simply the appeasement of capital disguised as a helping hand to labor. They are apart of a constant attempt of capital to legitimize itself in the eyes of labor.
For those who care, while I am fine with any pronouns, He/Him is honestly my least preferred. I was born " male" and I present masculine ( wish I didn't ) but I don't really like it. They/Them are the pronouns I connect with the most, and She/Her is fine.
As dialectical materialists/scientific socialists, we must never be emotional or liberal-minded in our analysis. You can take important lessons from those people and things that you disagree with the most.
The presentation of slavery as a production of racism is historical revisionism and stands to hide the necessity of class struggle against the black bourgeoisie. Trans-historical racism operates to hide the class antagonism between the black bourgeoisie and proletariat.
One must understand the dialectical relationship between capital and labor as the foundational contradiction of capitalism. It is through this contradiction that one understands that no compromise can be made between the two. Labor must destroy capital.
While identity matters and liberation of oppressed identities is necessary, we must not confuse identity as the material reasoning for the exploitation and extraction of labor to create capital. Colonialism was not a product of Europeans hating Africans, it was/is a economic
Referring to African " socialistic" or " communistic" systems thousands of years ago does very little to help us address the reality of post-industrial capital of the modern age. The past is to be learned from, not deified.
Black capitalism not only is capital attempting to legitimize itself in the eyes of labor, but is also capitals attempt to tell labor that it can engage in the spoils of its own exploitation, which of course, can not happen.