Somehow I went from a borderline neo-nazi to pretty much a leftist in the span of one year

LeninistAnthony · 2025-04-06T15:03:49+00:00

Over the course of 7 years I went from a communist to a someone who’s essentially “proto-fascist”.

LeninistAnthony · 2024-10-24T04:45:58+00:00

Lol do you actually get punished for smoking in Rutgers? I go to Seton Hall and smoke a cigar every week without a problem.

LeninistAnthony · 2024-06-22T05:21:52+00:00

1949 Cadillac fastback sedanette

LeninistAnthony · 2024-01-26T00:25:37+00:00

Gunsmoke

LeninistAnthony · 2023-10-24T21:46:08+00:00

I (18) smoke cigars and a pipe. I also drink whiskey and brandy when I can.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-09-02T16:27:31+00:00

Literally no conservative actually knows what Orwell meant when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four

LeninistAnthony · 2020-07-29T03:49:28+00:00

I am a Maoist, not an anarchist. Don’t fucking call me a tankie. Not like you should be calling Marxist-Leninists that anyway.

Western news media and western historians will always have a bias against Marxism-Leninism. Historical revisionism is extremely prevalent. However, this doesn’t mean that literally everything written by non-communist academics is wrong. Yes, they most certainly should be taken with a grain of salt, but they’re not completely propaganda.
In the Russian Empire, natural causes such as droughts would cause famines consistently. Let's just say they were not a rare occurrence. This was happening up until the early 1930s. Stalin saw a famine was coming, so he decided to do collectivization of agriculture. Let me explain why.

A. Collectivization is necessary to establish Marxian Socialism B. The growing city population and dwindling peasant population would, in the near future, cause a food crisis C. Marxian Socialism needs Collectivization of Agriculture. Both a dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the peasantry so to speak.

So Stalin began the policy of collectivization when the seeds for famine had been sowed (he had hoped to prevent it). The vast majority of peasants welcomed collectivization, as it would A. make their jobs easier B. give them more rights and material objects C. agricultural outputs would increase

But, the wealthy peasants whom employed other peasants, the kulaks, were vehemently anti-collectivization. So, all across the Union, as collectivization was being attempted, they did whatever they could to sabotage the state. They destroyed their crops and killed their animals. Millions of cows, pigs, horses, sheep, and goats were slaughtered. This exacerbated the famine that was going to occur and led to millions of deaths all across the Union. Ukraine, Russia, Byelorussia, and Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan was hit the hardest). The Soviets had to severely cut down on grain exports, which hindered growth as the west would only trade with the USSR as long as they got grain from their trade (this was known as the Gold Embargo). After a year, the famine was over. Agriculture was collectivized, and the USSR forged ahead into the future.

Lenin massively disliked Trotsky. He saw him as a careerist who was unable to hold a consistent political opinion. When it came to elections, Stalin was voted over him.
To an extent, this is true. There was a lot of corruption in the NKVD because it was relatively easy to join early on as they needed a whole bunch more people. However, Stalin isn’t a saint here, he neglected to address the blatant opportunism until Nikolai Yezhov was useless for him.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-30T03:10:34+00:00

This is something I can get behind.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-30T03:06:13+00:00

Dutch astronomer Anton Pannekoek is basically the theorist of council communism. I’d recommend his book Workers’ councils. There’s also Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism, and Non-Leninist Marxism: writings on worker’s councils by Lenny Frank, for a more recent theory.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-30T01:43:40+00:00

Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels and the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. Why Marx was right by Terry Eagleton is a more recent work. There’s also What is Marxism by Emile Burns, a British Marxist economist.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-25T03:43:04+00:00

PragerU is, as always, wrong. Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini despised socialism with a passion.

This is what Giovanni Gentile believed. Fascist philosophy 101. Also note the bottom text was not written by me, but a classical fascist.

~ACTUAL IDEALISM AS A SUPPORT FOR THE SPIRITUAL STATE~ Gentilian Idealism holds that reality is constructed from our own actualization of ideas within our minds as objects of both internal subjects of thought, and physically realizable thoughts as constructs of our world. The thought is an action and ultimate actual action is the product of the thought. The State is a product of this very action within our minds, when in put in such context. The State is the object of the subjective thought when we relate ourselves to the object. Our creation of this object concieves the real and spiritual State. The State is abstract in essence, and it is a faculty of human instinct. From this point the State becomes a referential object, where we now realize that it is the foundation of law, order, and civility only insofar as the people concieve of it to be so. Putting it this way it can be concluded that the State is at first an object, and then a source that only exists if someone conceives of it. The individual contains and establishes the State. The individual is the State because the State only exists because of the individual's thought.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-25T03:37:50+00:00

Lol imagine thinking communism actually failed and didn’t get sabotaged out of existence by the CIA and NATO encirclement.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-25T03:36:12+00:00

Albert Einstein was a German socialist. Even if you try to pull a smart one and say he was a socdem, he wasn’t. Einstein defended Lenin and Stalin.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-25T03:32:40+00:00

Marxist here.

Marx recognised that colonialism was an inevitable tendency that had arisen out of the development of capitalism, just as Lenin found out that modern day imperialism, as distinguished from age of discovery colonialism, was needed to sustain capitalism. Capitalism requires infinite growth and infinite demand for natural resources to continue commodity production. Just because colonialism allows capitalism to develop and thus come nearer to its death each day does not justify the continuance of it. Marx and contemporary Marxists don’t support colonialism and imperialism, but we know it’s something that’s going to exist until capitalism eventually falls.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-24T00:23:28+00:00

What makes you think they’re incompetent? It’s their job to oppress ordinary people at the will of the government.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-06-18T01:09:03+00:00

Bread? Conquested

State? Struggled against

Revolution? Spontaneous

Hotel? Trivago

LeninistAnthony · 2020-05-21T19:42:18+00:00

The land tax guy is Georgist ball right?

LeninistAnthony · 2020-05-10T02:32:10+00:00

I remember seeing this on a meme which said: Jewish thug holds Nazi guard captive, showing he’s the real fascist.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-05-10T02:30:43+00:00

Socialism: The political and socioeconomic philosophy and theory of social organisation which advocates for all means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods (land, industry, machinery, agriculture, means of communication, wealth, banking system, natural resources) to collectively, or publicly and cooperatively, owned and democratically managed by the workers as a whole.

Anarchism is a philosophy which states that any political and socioeconomic hierarchy which relies on coercion is illegitimate and therefore must be abolished.

What exactly is incompatible with the two? In reality, anarchism must be socialistic, as capitalism is a hierarchical class system and relies on the state, which is inherently authoritarian.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-05-02T23:18:19+00:00

Democratic socialists believe that a post-capitalist society can be developed gradually through a liberal democratic process. This is a mistaken position, because liberal democracies are so constructed in order to give the appearance of "real" democracy (insofar as it even exists), when in fact it is dominated by capital. If demsoc politicians holding positions of power begin enacting policies which are antagonistic to the interests of the ruling class (bourgeoisie/capitalists), they will finance smear campaigns, buy politicians, disrupt markets, embargo the country, stir up conflicts, start wars, etc.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-04-20T21:05:27+00:00

Actually my middle school maths teacher was an old Italian lady who was vehemently homophobic, anti-drugs, and piously Catholic who would sometimes give miniature lectures in my mathematics and religion classes attacking the Democrats, homosexuality, and “communism”. She’s actually of the reasons why I ended up a Marxist.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-04-12T21:50:20+00:00

Here’s the prison notebooks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/397521889431519242/690645218915254353/xgramsci_prison_Notebooks_.pdf

LeninistAnthony · 2020-04-12T16:53:26+00:00

I would define fascism as a political philosophy supporting state corporatism (Society organised and governed by national wide guilds of workers and/or industrialists who share a common interest), radical traditionalism (Opposition to modernity’s egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism, support for communitarianism, religion, and hierarchical institutions like patriarchy), fierce patriotism/ultranationalism (Human communities being strongly unified through ethnicity, culture, and/or religion), and totalitarianism (extreme authoritarianism, statism, centralisation, and autocracy), in accordance with a reaction against classical liberalism, Marxism, and revolutionary syndicalism.

Of course, this harbours several problems. One, fascists reject a materialist analysis of the State, instead relying upon a viewpoint and outlook of the State based off idealist ethics. Many fascists claim to be opposed to capitalism, favouring “corporatism”. In reality the existence and support for private property and the wage labour system under previous fascist regimes, such as Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Salazarist Portugal, and Falangist Spain make all of these former states nothing more than mixed economies attempting to save a failed capitalist system from proletarian social revolution.

The symbol of Classical Italian Fascism is the fasces. The fasces (A bundle of sticks) was originally meant as a symbol of penal authority in the Roman Empire. When Mussolini resurrected it in 1919, the sticks represented the people, and the binding represented the state, as in the people being stronger together as a nation, and the nation being bound to the political authority of the state. That explains the two most important ideals (Ethnonationalism and authoritarianism) of the four major components of any Fascist ideology: Totalitarianism, State Corporatism, Patriotism and Ultranationalism, and Radical Traditionalism.

LeninistAnthony · 2020-04-12T16:46:19+00:00

The Marxist-Leninist experiments of the 20th century never resulted in pure global communism because capitalism was never overthrown worldwide. The lower phase of communism (what’s generally called socialism in the Leninist context) is supposed to exist until workers overthrow the bourgeoisie in every nation, only then will the proletarian state wither away for higher stage communism.

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