Submitted by MarxWasTheMessiah in meta_ (edited )

In 1776, a few wealthy white men wrote the Declaration of independence. And in it, Jefferson, a slaveowner and rapist, stated that all men are born with certain inalienable rights, and that "All men are created equal" (women, non-whites, and the poor don't count). Now, in 2019 nearing 300 years after these words were first uttered, we live in a world where equality is circumstantial, our politics are corrupt, and the founding principles of this empire are exactly the same: exploiting those we see as lower than us, killing brown people with impunity, and using moral principles created during the enlightenment to justify it.

We can, however, reverse this. Restoring a truly fair political system based on Marxist ideology, vanguards, political parties, and the purging of anarchists reactionaries. This is easier said than done though, and it's all because of Ne'er-do-wells like anarchists or demsocs for not reading Marx or falling in line when we have to kill off dissidents.

So I wrote this. As a call to well-meaning people to rise to the occasion, unite left ideologies across the board for a common enemy: capitalism. Or anti-tankie scum (especially ziq, the arch anti-tankie scum). Identity politics. Historical revisionism. And Sparrows. These three horrid characteristics of our nation can be fixed through communist means. Identity politics, is rooted in most people but can be torn up by enforcing struggle sessions. The Civil Rights Movement of the sixties removed legal discrimination against most people, but ideological discrimination, the prejudice against Marxism, is still incredibly widespread. I am a member of the Communist party and as such experience discrimination on a daily basis. From a passing remark along the lines of "Wait, so you like starving?" to full on discrimination at restaurants just because i brought my Che Guevara T-shirt and started reciting The Communist Manifesto at the top of my lungs.

Historical revisionism, is the bane of Marxism. While at the surface they may seem to be harmless gatherings of people with childish ideologies writing bad alternative history, it soon creates a mess of political chaos, which interferes with left unity. In the United States two main political parties hold power, the Republicans and the Democrats. Together, these parties hold 98 percent of the vote with the only good party, the True Dialectical Marxist-Leninist Party of The People (of which I am the sole member and founder), holding just 1 member. Voters go to the polls, and without looking at names, vote for Capitalism. Not Communism. The lack of class-consciousness will cause the downfall of every revolution. It is more destructive than the anarkiddie, and more crippling than a Left-Com.

Liberals and Reactionaries are people who want a return to "how it was" or want to stop revolution and change or want Marxists to not purge them for refusing Marxism, If any hope of achieving the destruction of the two previously mentioned phenomena, we must destroy the Liberals. Most Liberals do not call themselves such. If you ask someone, "Hello, comrade, what's your political ideology?" and they reply with "Anarchism." or something along those lines, they are either a reactionary or someone oblivious to REAL political theory.

These problems can only be fixed if we unite. The Movement for Left Unity, as I envision it, will be a sprawling group of people that follow many leftist ideologies united under a single banner, Marxist-Leninist, to attempt to bring about the end of the corrupt "democracy" we call home.

This is a short plea. Use and interpret this how you wish.

With all due respect,

A Concerned Marxist

P.S. Fuck Sparrows.

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Pop wrote

unless you've wrung the neck of at least one sparrow you aren't qualified to respond to this post and will have to go before a tribunal to plead your case before we send you to the gulag anyway

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ramone wrote

No thankyou. Direct democracy or bust! A novel ideology can form organically without having to adopt some theoretical bullshit that has never been tested in a vacuum.

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1998822 wrote

Direct democracy and so-called 'consensus democracy,' suffers from the same problems as all 'democratic systems,' sadly. It has corruption built into it's backbone.

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ramone wrote (edited )

Only it seems least corruptible of all governmental systems, especially if you start from scratch.

Edit: I don't really get what this forum is supposed to be about

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1998822 wrote (edited )

I'm not sure if 'least corruptible,' is how I want to think. History is full of people taking the 'lesser evil,' and look where we are right now... It's pretty bleak imo. All forms of mass social organization are doomed from the very start, where do we go from there?

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ramone wrote

They aren't the same thing. The least corruptible system is completely capable of being evil or not, it's a matter of the popular opinion. Not popular opinion about who gets to be a figure head, but actual issues that have to get dealt with, of which there are an overabundance. It should be very decentralized, and no individual should have more power than others. What other option is there if we don't want the world to fall into decay?

I simply don't agree that all forms of social organization are doomed, people just have to get over it when popular opinion is different from their own.

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ramone wrote

Nothing is perfect. You can't fix democracy. I don't see the last two as contradictory. Power comes from influence, if you have the same amount of influence as everybody else you are just as powerful.

You shouldn't have to make people understand your trans identity, just make a case for protection against violence. Words aren't violence, if you get shit on verbally it's probably because you haven't stated your case clearly enough. I judge individuals on their own merits, I don't lump every trans person together and dislike all of them, but I have met some trans people I dislike personally, that doesn't make me transphobic, but to their eyes it might.

The world is endangered, there have to be rules for how to extract it's resources, otherwise mother nature will exact vengeance on everyone and everything in it before it can reach harmony again.

I can only imagine any alternative you would espouse as having a pretty bleak outcome in the real world. No one gets hurt unless they hurt someone else? Ugh, I'm not religious but I can appreciate truth when I hear it, so here goes, 'an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind'.

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arj wrote

The world is endangered, there have to be rules for how to extract it's resources, otherwise mother nature will exact vengeance on everyone and everything in it before it can reach harmony again.

Sounds like religious extremism.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

Power comes from influence, if you have the same amount of influence as everybody else you are just as powerful.

Except that's not how democracy or power work at all. Like you said, power comes from influence; if someone can influence more than one person, they are more powerful by your own admission.

Words aren't violence, if you get shit on verbally it's probably because you haven't stated your case clearly enough.

Oh my god, are you actually doing this?

I judge individuals on their own merit

"I don't see color."

The world is endangered, there have to be rules for how to extract it's resources

The people extracting resources at the rate they are now either make the rules or ignore them. Rules are worth nothing.

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ramone wrote

People are peices of shit. A person can reason for themselves, and a collective will turn out it's own shitty reasoning for whatever benefits them. Better to make benefiting off of being a shitty person harder.

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ramone wrote

I have been transphobic before, it was only natural. I have spoken with trans people who have made their points well, and I don't discourage it any more. There are still people who I think are stupid who happen to be trans, but that's true of every denomination of people you can possibly think of.

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ziq wrote

Can we just start calling them the founding rapists?

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ramone wrote

It actually doesn't take that long to see nature turn against an ideology. Water levels are rising, visibly. The willfully blind have turned opinion against the fact that human "progress" isn't sustainable. This will be obvious to everyone within the next 10 years.

WTF is this place? No one has any ideas besides "oppression is bad, so let's be hateful to anyone who doesn't conform to our ideologies.”

The fact is: human population is capable of destroying nature, and they will because it is easier than living with the truth. Because people are selfish.

Not sure I care to hear anyone's opinions on climate here, because you are all too focused on issues that affect you in your lifetime. Future generations will have true disdain for people that focus on social issues, while the future is left out to dry, literally.

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DarkArmiIIary wrote

The fact is: human population is capable of destroying nature, and they will because it is easier than living with the truth. Because people are selfish.

Wtf does it even mean lol

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