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No offense but honestly a lot of Leninist theory reeks of sophistry to me and it bugs mePermalink On twitter.com
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You say "I'm an anarchist, I think states are counterproductive to revolution" And they say "Well actually Lenin defined a state as any time any society organizes anything in any way on the behalf of one class over another so..."Permalink On twitter.com
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"...when you say you don't like states what you REALLY mean is you don't like organization and you can't have a successful revolution without organization so there."Permalink On twitter.com
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You say "I don't think state socialism lends itself to transitioning to stateless communism" And they say "Well replacing money with labor vouchers means there's no capital. No capital means no accumulation. No accumulation means no classes. And no classes means no state"Permalink On twitter.com
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You say "I think the workers should have direct say over how the economy operates" And they say "But the vanguard controls the state and the workers control the vanguard so we already have that"Permalink On twitter.com
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You say "I'm concerned about authoritarianism in leftist movements" And they say "Well Engels defined authority as any time anyone tells anyone else what to do so isn't ALL revolution authoritarian?? Checkmate!!!"On twitter.com
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Basically they act like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are the only theory. So when confronted with ideas not derived from these 5 they redefine words until they fit into what they had to say. Stop being like this. It's annoying. You show your whole assPermalink On twitter.com