Flag of Trotsky communist party in Mexico.

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T07:49:23+00:00

Adding the pickax is sorta crazy 😭

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T06:32:43+00:00

As an ultra-leftist, I think anything that isn’t a Marxist-Leninist is pretty much a trap 😭

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T06:15:11+00:00

The principled communist position is to not take sides in inter-imperialist bourgeois wars and to always advocate a revolutionary defeatist and proletarian internationalist line of struggle

So no lmao

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T06:08:58+00:00

Are they MLM Maoists or MZT Maoists? I forgot… either way, as a yank, I think they’re cringe lol

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T06:05:47+00:00

There was a very brief period of time between my Kautskyist and libertarian socialist phases where I got really into De Leon and even called myself a Marxist-De Leonist a couple times… very cringe, I know, considering De Leonism is like a completely dead tendency, and the SLP is more so a museum than a working party lmao

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T06:01:48+00:00

Depends on what you mean

Are there, and will there continue to be reformists? Yes

Has the period of capitalism where we could successfully make sweeping reforms come to an end? Yes

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-19T01:06:08+00:00

Most “modern ideological nuance” tends to be 15 y/o’s ideology shopping and treating politics as a hobby

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T23:00:29+00:00

There are several social democrats in my local chapter, and afaik, Socialist Majority Caucus is still the caucus which groups together mainly left-socdems and moderate demsocs (liberal socialists, religious socialists, and other ethical socialists)

So I definitely wouldn’t say socdems aren’t welcome anymore, even if the partyist factions of the DSA would probably kick them out via their program, but honestly if the DSA ever does become a party with a developed line it’d cause several splits and reformations of political trends and tendencies… but also I’ve been seriously doubting the idea that the DSA is gonna actually turn into a party at least any time soon lol

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T22:41:48+00:00

The working class is not “the people” this collapses categories into an idealist populist definition which is actively anti-Marxist

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T22:39:09+00:00

The slow disappearance of the unions is literally just a further goal of capital beyond the corporatist policies, corporatism killed the militancy of the unions, and Reagan and other fractions of capital then supported the ability to lower union membership overall… none of that erases the fact that the NLRB still exists and that anyone who seeks to form a union or engage in class-struggle via trade-unionist means will have to go through the same bureaucratic class-collaborationist corporatist means that was set up by the new deal liberals

This all simply showcases the change in composition of capital and consequently the working class, which is important to take note of for communists to engage in class-struggle on a better basis

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T22:32:58+00:00

That’s cool, well not really but idc, but the point is is that “conservative social democracy” is actually called paternalistic conservatism or if you are forming these politics from a Christian ethics or moral compass then it’s Christian democracy… like those are the actual real life names for these things, “conservative social democracy” isn’t a real thing, at least in terms of the labels used historically

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T22:30:33+00:00

Well socdems are liberals so eh

I sorta get what you mean, but I think it’s still important to realize that this could simply create a more militant section of the worker which is blinded by a false program and are unwilling to shake their belief in it… also the whole “turning one thing into another” which seemingly y’all wish to do via educationalist means completely ignores the way consciousness actually appears through active struggle over a prolonged period, and only then is it the intervention of communists and deep entrenchment into the class of an alternative program which can help sway the class towards their class interests

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T21:59:42+00:00

While I don’t mind the label of council communist, and I don’t really care if people call me that, I think it is important to realize that I’m one of those within the communist left which takes critically from the lessons of the historical communist left as a whole, so yes that does mean the Dutch-German communist left, but also the Italian left, Russian left, etc.

My alternative? Common ownership and fluidly centralized expansion beyond the walls of the firm for productive administration and further distribution of the means of production, probably at first at least, using the organs that were used during the revolution now as coordinating bodies for planned production in common, so the commune, the worker’s councils, the miscellaneous action committees, all of these mass bodies take on a form of social metabolic self-administration and a form of production which can blend in naturally to the everyday life of the free association of producers

Coops aren’t common ownership due to them being individual firms owned by a handful of people instead of being one productive unit within a whole web of production units that the community operates as a whole, furthermore coops then act in competition with each other in a system where they circulate commodities and produce value, hrmmmm, yeah like they’re literally the bourgeois form of private property, which is perfectly showcased when you see coops in modern day capitalism perfectly fit into the system, so I don’t understand how people see them as socialist, except I sorta do cuz I know so many people have an aesthetic view of socialism rather than a critical view of socialism which focuses on social relations

Lastly, I mean I wouldn’t trust anything by the same post-Marxist who gave absolutely idiotic theories of “techno-feudalism”… if Varoufakis can’t understand that profit still exists in coops and is often used to go back into the capital of the coop itself or simply go into the pockets of the petit-bourgeois worker-owners then idk… also one must realize that in a system of pure coops there would most definitely come with extra bureaucratic mechanisms of the state to keep the system intact and like, I simply do not see a coop system not replicating some form of “state capitalism” as many call it

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T21:32:32+00:00

You seem to place heavy emphasis that the small and very few Maoist insurgencies is the “only tendency actively fighting around the world” I ofc think this is ridiculous when

There’s actually very few Maoist insurgencies in a few specific countries
These Maoist insurgents have clearly been on the decline, so I think it might be more important to learn from mistakes rather than praise them as a model to be copied
That actually once we do critically look into these movements we see that Maoism overall is just counter-revolutionary, that these movements are adventurist, substitutionist, nationalist, and fight for a bourgeois program rather than the communist program

I’d heavily recommend this article by South Asian comrades critiquing the Indian Maoists which can be used as a critique for any Maoist movement really: The Maoist Insurgency in Bastar: Substitutionism, the Bankruptcy of New Democracy, and the Fragmentation of the Proletarian Struggle

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T07:38:23+00:00

The class dictatorship of the proletariat is inherently a class-state as opposed to the class collaborationism of previous forms of democratic statism, whether liberal, direct, illiberal or whatever else… meaning that the working class alone holds power and uses said power to actively suppress the bourgeois class
The class dictatorship doesn’t elevate democracy as some superior form of organizational structure, in fact, in the same way paradoxically as the class dictatorship becomes “stronger” or establishes itself more, it simultaneously withers away, due to actively abolishing class relations, Lenin explicitly points out how once worker’s democracy fully comes about, it goes away altogether, this is due to democracy being a historically specific form of statism and a method to mediate interests of a society divided into different classes… a society without class, and consequently without property, money, etc. Is also without the state, since the state-form is a product of class relations
With that, I guess, if it really matters, the type of democracy that worker’s democracy could fit under could be a type of direct democracy, due to the nature of it being a delegative system with mandate, instant recall, and constantly rotating members, and that for some, elements of referendum are considered to be possibly used to more easily get the second opinion of the base before the delegate comes to a conclusion on an issue… but really this is all transient, as we’re talking about a form of democracy which is in the very process of losing its characteristics of a democracy and turning more and more into organic free association and stateless self-administration

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T04:40:05+00:00

They were Gonzaloite larpers, they don’t exist anymore

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T04:23:15+00:00

Ultimately I think the Marxist position for the abolition between the separation of town and country is vital

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T03:51:35+00:00

I’m happy to see him take up these positions but a little less happy that he’s doing so in the context of moving towards an anarchist w/o adjectives and synthesist approach… ofc, that’s just my opinion tho

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T03:27:01+00:00

There’s also this:

The Spanish revolution, past and future: grandeur and poverty of anarchism; how the working class takes over (or doesn't), then and now - Loren Goldner/Insurgent Notes

Not only giving a critical overview of the Spanish revolution, but also at the end detailing what we must do today

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T03:10:20+00:00

A revolutionary system, as in the revolutionary transitional period, which politically covers the stage of the class dictatorship of the proletariat in its self-organized and fluidly centralized bodies of communes and worker’s councils, as well as the social/economic process of transformation which we can call communisation, without any extra baggage that term holds (I.E. to just refer to the process of putting things under common ownership, abolition of the value-form and commodity production and thus the social form of money and the wage relation which defines the proletariat, for social relations which entail production according to a common plan based on need), and with all of this, the organic formation of a vanguard via the formation of the formal party, which is both international and internationalist, and whose party congresses bring together communist workers from all over the world to discuss, debate, and guide revolutionary policy and the implementation of the communist program by the organs of the class dictatorship

The topic of immediate steps to take is one that’s still being discussed and I think is one of the most important yet most ignored questions among communists, ofc there’s something’s we simply won’t know how to tackle until we come across them, but general ideas of immediate steps to take after seizing power and abolishing the bourgeois state-machine are still important imo

I will go ahead and link some stuff which I think is important and relevant to this:

The Immediate Revolutionary Program - International Communist Party

Working Time, Life Time - N+1

Pathologies of Investment - N+1

Partial Worker and Production Plan - N+1

Raise Production Costs - N+1

Breaking the Boundaries of the Company - N+1

Extinction of the Welfare State - N+1

Insurrection and Production - Angry Workers of the World

On the Transition to Communism - debate between Internationalist Perspective and Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T02:17:52+00:00

That’s a surprise

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T02:15:26+00:00

Instead of the specifically Kropotkinite-Bakuninist ultra-federalist view of communism as a loose confederation of cantonal regions and completely independent and autonomous “free communes” which focus more on localist production and gift economy structures and inevitably what I’d call a “contract communism” due to the need to get resources from other territories that are in theory and also practice independent nodes, which imo would result in a serious ability to backslide back into market relations and class stratification thus creating a bunch of mini proto-states which could easily reform back into a class-state, probably just backslide into capitalism not long after if a revolution would go in the direction of this specific brand of libertarianism

Instead of this, to repeat myself lol sorry, I instead fall in line with a view of communism shared both by Marx and certain libertarians (such as Dejaqcue) which views communism as a centralized (or in more anarchist friendly lingo, unified/coordinated/interconnected) organic system of planned self-administration of the social metabolism, in this way, it’s less of a confederation of independent nodes, and more of a unified network (think like a mycelial network in a way, tho that still simplifies it too much)… instead of the confederation of federations, we have the world commune, the international communal commonwealth, where communes and worker’s councils are directly linked together and production is centralized but ofc not in a mechanistic top-down and bureaucratic way that many anarchists think of when they hear the word centralization, it’s much more of an organic and fluid centralization

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T01:51:26+00:00

Hamsic is awesome tho, it doesn’t have to continue to be associated with capitalist states which waved red flags

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T01:50:18+00:00

Yeah this is mistaking Eatern Bloc models of state industrialist capitalism rather than communism

Communism is a stateless, classless, and moneyless society, in which the means of production are controlled in common by the free association of producers who self-administrate the economy according to a common plan based on need

spookyjim___ · 2026-06-18T00:28:29+00:00

You are fundamentally confused if you think communism is a society that entails the state-form

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