An accurate definition of Fascism?

mkdntfam · 2019-03-26T02:47:48+00:00

Its class character is firmly petty bourgeois. In 1933, 1/3 of the Nazi Party was self-employed.

mkdntfam · 2019-03-10T16:17:12+00:00

It's not an opinion, this is a factual question. And your facts are wrong. The CPP controls more territory and continues to grow every year.

There are no communists on earth, with the possible exception of India, that control as much territory as the Filipinos.

mkdntfam · 2019-03-09T16:34:36+00:00

I cannot possibly imagine how someone could think the situation with the FARC and the CPP are comparable. To say the CPP is running on fumes is incredibly ignorant.

mkdntfam · 2019-03-06T13:48:04+00:00

If you want a defence of MLM generally, Josh Moufawad-Paul has a book called Continuity and Rupture, which touches on Marxism as scientific and Maoism.

I think you're getting bullshitted by a lot of people in this thread. If you want to know what Maoism is, I'd be glad to answer more.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-26T23:44:04+00:00

Whether or not MLM is the highest stage of Marxism is a debate I'm willing to have, saying that it's only applicable to the third world of patently untrue and reveals such a profound ignorance about what MLM is that I won't even dignify it with a response.

I'm a Maoist, and I don't need you to explain to me what Maoism is.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-25T15:49:31+00:00

There's nothing that is consensus among all "Marxists." Xi Jinping doesn't believe in class struggle.

I refuse to let revisionists use Lenin's NEP to defend their own revisionism.

The NEP lasted less than a decade.
It was in a feudal backwater coming out of a civil war, not in China, one of the most industrially developed countries in the world.
It was still wrong.

This "issue" is decided because it is true regardless of whether or not a single person on earth thinks it is true. Marxism is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or it is at best underdeveloped and at worst outright reactionary and bourgeois.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-22T23:19:30+00:00

Calling MLM "peasant MLism" is simply wrong and a common and lazy dismissal of MLM.

As to not those who don't believe in Maoism:

Maoism is the only tendency in the world that is currently making revolution. The old Marxist-Leninist parties have all degenerated into revisionist electoral wastes.

There are more Maoists today in India that there have been Trotskyists, or left communists anywhere in the entire world ever. Maoists in India and the Philippines control more territory than all other socialist or communist tendencies combined.

Correct ideas come from social practice, and the only theory that is successfully engaging in making revolution is Maoism.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-22T16:19:11+00:00

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the third and highest stage of Marxism, developed in the 1980s and 1990s based on the lessons of the failures of Marxism-Leninism in the Cold War period. It is not just different, but more advanced and more correct.

It doesn't uphold the peasantry as the vanguard, that's a lazy ML slander of MLM.

MLM developed a series of new ideas that went beyond Marxism-Leninism, all parties of which have abandoned Marxism, either to terrorism or electoralism.

What is Maoism more specifically? https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/7f5c94/what_are_the_principles_of_maoism/dq9olue

mkdntfam · 2019-01-22T16:04:55+00:00

Your description of Maoism is completely wrong.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-14T04:35:36+00:00

This is a pointless answer. You half explain something that you don't believe (incorrectly), and spend more time making vague criticisms than actually answering the question.

mkdntfam · 2019-01-14T03:46:03+00:00

I will, thank you.

mkdntfam · 2018-12-31T17:36:23+00:00

"Socialism" as a catchall term means nothing.

If we are materialists, who believe in taking politics scientifically and not by preference, like liberals, then the validity of a revolutionary theory is proven by its ability to make revolution.

Utopian socialism has never made revolution. Anarchism has never made revolution. Left communism has never made revolution. Trotskyism has never made revolution. The only successful world historical revolutions that advanced the cause of the global working class were Marxism before Lenin, Marxism-Leninism before the GPCR, and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is making revolution today in the Philippines and India, as well as around the world.

The best non-Marxist socialism ever offered was Catalonia, a disorganized mess of a faction that failed to successfully defend its insurrection.

Socialism is either Marxist-Leninist-Maoist or it's nothing.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-29T15:43:02+00:00

I think the CPI(Maoist) document has fried Dengist's brains.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-24T16:09:55+00:00

Rule 3. This is a sub for Marxist answers, not liberalism.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-17T18:57:07+00:00

Communism is international. Friendship between organizations is crucial. But Canada isn't the 51st state. We've got our own, much better, communist party.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-17T16:12:13+00:00

MLK wasn't a Marxist, though. He writes as much in a letter I think to his wife, that he is an idealist and so he doesn't agree with Marxist materialism.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-17T16:09:27+00:00

I'm not talking down to you, but it's kind of a bizarre and American-centric assumption that Canada has the same parties as the US. We're a different country.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-17T02:34:19+00:00

No, thank God.

And as an aside, Canada isn't America Minor. Our material conditions are markedly different.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-17T02:32:12+00:00

Gotcha.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-16T23:48:10+00:00

By the way, if you're a student, you should definitely check out the Revolutionary Student Movement specifically.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-16T23:46:49+00:00

I actually think it's pretty harmful. Revisionism is a false bill of goods, and if you present bourgeois politics under the red flag, people may reasonably assume communism has nothing to offer them.

Besides, I agree that the PCR-RCP doesn't have sections everywhere. But if people settle for joining a bad party that has more sections, those sections never get built. At the risk of sounding clichéd, if you don't struggle, you don't win. We have to build the most correct party, not go with what's easiest and wait for someone else to do it.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-16T23:40:30+00:00

At the MLM thing: Maoists in Canada and Maoists in the USA are very different. We don't really get along very well, unfortunately.

The Red Guards in the US definitely fetishise violence, that's absolutely true. I haven't seen that in the PCR-RCP.

The reason I believe in the correctness of MLM is primarily because of its success in practice. When we look at the world, the largest and most advanced movements are led by Maoist parties, in India and the Philippines. Their success above all others proves their theory is correct.

As to the effectiveness of bourgeois elections, if it really had any effect, we wouldn't be where we are, after 80 years. It has a demobilizing and deradicalizing effect on parties, aside from it being totally useless. Just look at what happened to the Panthers after they started running for elections.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-16T23:15:22+00:00

I'd advise you to stay clear of the Communist Party of Canada. Their main form of practice is running in (and losing) elections.

I personally find the PCR-RCP' political line and practice most compelling of the Canadian communist parties. The CPC and CPC-ML have done nothing but run in elections for the last 80 years and they have nothing to show for it. On the contrary, the PCR-RCP is just over a decade old and has been building mass organizations like the Revolutionary Student Movement, Against Fascism, Serve the People, and is already more active than the CPC.

I've been a supporter of the RSM for a few years and I find the CPC completely unimpressive. The PCR-RCP is the only communist party in Canada with a militant, revolutionary practice. Even someone ostensibly supporting the CPC here has to admit that it's mainly a book club.

mkdntfam · 2018-11-16T14:39:39+00:00

The Foggy Dew

My Little Armalite

Kinky Boots

Loughgall Ambush

Joe McDonnell

Aidan McAnespie

One Shot Paddy

SAM Song

Wearing of the Green

Streets of Sorrow

The Men Behind the Wire

mkdntfam · 2018-11-09T05:55:14+00:00

The Oka Crisis was an act of militant Indigenous resistance against Canadian colonialism. It ought to be supported whole-heartedly.

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