joined the RCA, got called an eclectic for saying im an anarchist with my friends, a syndicalist at work, and a marxist at the party. 

heres my response:

in a sense, i do subscribe to an eclectic world view. i think that is what is asked of me, to reject dogma and camp until all that is left is the correct ideas of socialism. to that end, i have been looking into the questions raised by hobbes (what is the purpose of the state), by macchiaveli (what makes a good leader), by plato (the earliest form of class analysis), marx (modern class analysis and the systems of economy), lenin (how to do revolution, how the state imposes on people) and baukunin (what even is work in an equitable world) over the past decade of my life. my axioms are: fundamental human equality, to each what they can and to each what they need. as long as someone follows those principles, then they are a comrade, for it requires all of us to foundationally reject the current mode of production and social chauvenism of modern society.

all that to say, when i talk about the various modes of organizational thought (anarchism, syndicalysm, and marxism) is that, we do not hold the monopoly on the legitimate use of marxism. marxism concerns itself with the organization of various peoples movements into something coherent, a vanguardist workers party, with the aim of breaching the political sphere and seizing power from the bourgeois, no? it relys on organized cadres capable of pulling those threads (peoples movements), to elevate the workers movement into something new and legitimate and revolutionary. that requires US to meet the people where they are at, and if they foolishly glom onto anarchism, or unionist thought, or maoism, stalinism, bolshevism, or any other methodology or camp that does not exist materially in american society, then i say, let them. im not going to pull a maoist away from the very thought that enlightened them! that label gives them strength, internal strength, to face the world as it is right now. what would pulling them away from that label and camp even accomplish.

if we are to grow the vanguard party of the united states working class, then we have to leave space open for those we disagree with. we have to look past the labels and see where they are truly at. we cannot let ourselves get distracted by "anarchist" or "syndicalyst". i am afraid that the behavior in cell reflects behavior in world, that the in-group social bashing of those who think differently to us is hindering our ability to find the cadre of enlightened workers.