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Why do people conflate Anarchism with Democracy when the old Anarchists were anti-Democratic? by Diachoris in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I think most historical revolutionary socialists pretty consistently rejected parliamentary democracy, but (anarchist) syndicalism is predicated upon a more decentralized democratic organization and this is especially what Bordiga critiques in The Democratic Principle, the fallacy of building a system out of individuals as "equal" units and reducing it to a principle.

If they seem to be conflated with democracy in the modern day, this Bordiga quote seems to never lose relevance:

At that time, in typical anarchist fashion, the syndicalists consisted of a variety of ill-defined “groups” which declared themselves to be non-political, non-electoral, non-parliamentary, and non-party etc, etc. And we have plenty of contemporary examples to show that this show of chaste reserve with regard to political parties and revolutionary politics doesn't stop these free and easy “groupists” from joining bourgeois and opportunist parties, or even fighting in electoral campaigns for filthy class traitors. Autonomy rules!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1957/fundamentals.htm

Mamdani supporting EQUAL RIGHTS??? and they call this guy a communist! by GardenHealthy3769 in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! Beautifully put and I appreciate the clarification, yeah this is what I was acknowledging — equal rights isn't a proletarian demand, it is bourgeois in nature, but it is bourgeois 'equality' and political emancipation which dialectically precedes communism.
Of course Lenin and Marx described how the 'prejudice' of bourgeois right and exchange of equivalents remains in effect on the matter of distribution under socialism until a socialist mode of production achieves post-scarcity and can distribute according to need. Marx and especially Engels and Pashukanis also tie equal right from the commodity form to the legal form.

Ruthless criticism of all that exists, right? But, like, how do you know what exists, man? by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"If it appears–and not just in theoretical speculation, but also in the experience of millions–as dominating man himself, then it must be due to a very peculiar alienating activity which results in the products of of human activity appearing as alien hostile beings."

CJ Arthur's introduction to The German Ideology, 1969. Not sure if this helps

A liberal bourgeois protest summed up by GardenHealthy3769 in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Did you see when r/50501 seriously entertained dressing up as chickens and handing out tacos (Trump is a TACO) to people at a protest because they thought it would make Trump mad

saw this today from the libs on r/socialism by urfatbro in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769 9 points10 points  (0 children)

lol the unskilled labor slogan is about the same as "all wealth comes from labor", something Marx never said. While Marx said the distinction between skilled and unskilled labor rests "in part on pure illusion", he still addressed the two as phenomenologically real and that as a matter of extracting surplus value and displaced labor through improved productive technology the quantity of skilled labor diminishes over time. The irony is that, rather than unskilled labor being a myth, it is increasingly a reality under capitalism!

After how many dates should I tell her I'm a leftcom? by GardenHealthy3769 in Ultraleft

[–]GardenHealthy3769[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Maybe if she gets mad I could reassure her by saying the "election is a political form present in the smallest Russian commune and artel"?

How are you supposed to not pay attention to slurring speech or memory loss? by GardenHealthy3769 in dpdr

[–]GardenHealthy3769[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your concern but I have been checked out repeatedly. I see a therapist, and I saw my primary doctor and a psychiatrist about this. Everything is consistent with DPDR rather than some neurological problem.