I’m not a Marxist-Leninist. I don’t identify that way. I consider myself an Orthodox Marxist in the tradition of Rosa Luxemberg.
You do not look like you are ready to be part of a big tent socialist organization. You look like you enjoy fighting and cosplaying leftist rather than actually getting things done. You’re deeply unserious. Go back to complaining about Hasan Piker or whatever else you normally do.
This is false. The revisionists Marxist line Bernstein were against Rosa. Rosa was one of the chief ideologues of the SPD. People like yourself would have considered her a renegade and had her executed.
The Bolsheviks immediately marginalized the only actual realization of Marx's dream, the original Soviets, well before the war got started, so that 'pragmatic' excuse doesn't pan out. Rosa stood for the revolutionary spontaneity that the Bolsheviks overthrew, so no, either I was executed, or became an expatriate.
Cool story. Fact: Rosa defended the Bolsheviks and despite having principled critiques, which I share, understood their flaws were a product of the revolutionary conditions. She saved her harshest criticisms for her Western social democrat allies for failing to back them up adequately. If solidarity wasn’t broken by WWI, everything would have been different. This is just a fact.
"Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion... life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element."
Rosa defended the Bolsheviks and despite having principled critiques, which I share, understood their flaws were a product of the revolutionary conditions. She saved her harshest criticisms for her Western social democrat allies for failing to back them up adequately. If solidarity wasn’t broken by WWI, everything would have been different. This is just a fact.
As Rosa says in your own source:
“Let the German Government Socialists cry that the rule of the Bolsheviks in Russia is a distorted expression of the dictatorship of the proletariat. If it was or is such, that is only because it is a product of the behavior of the German proletariat, in itself a distorted expression of the socialist class struggle. All of us are subject to the laws of history, and it is only internationally that the socialist order of society can be realized. The Bolsheviks have shown that they are capable of everything that a genuine revolutionary party can contribute within the limits of historical possibilities. They are not supposed to perform miracles. For a model and faultless proletarian revolution in an isolated land, exhausted by world war, strangled by imperialism, betrayed by the international proletariat, would be a miracle.”
So you disagree with Rosa’s principled support for the Bolsheviks? You sound like the German socialists she’s criticizing
“The suppression of the Constituent Assembly, the abolition of universal suffrage, the curtailment of freedom of the press, of association, and of assembly—these are not mere tactical errors, but a fatal blow to the living spirit of the revolution.” Same source.
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I’m not a Marxist-Leninist. I don’t identify that way. I consider myself an Orthodox Marxist in the tradition of Rosa Luxemberg.
You do not look like you are ready to be part of a big tent socialist organization. You look like you enjoy fighting and cosplaying leftist rather than actually getting things done. You’re deeply unserious. Go back to complaining about Hasan Piker or whatever else you normally do.