Truth be told, I only use this flag because I generally agree with the ultra left stance towards the left: that it needs to be ruthlessly critiqued if it ever hopes to get out of its quasi-inexistence. The left communist flag just comes closest to this; I have no further illusions about the left communist wing of the 3rd Int being the true enlightened way forward or w/e.
As such, I generally abhor the general "left com" stance towards people like Sanders who people like Zizek will see a use in for the greater term.
Far from signalling the birthing of a new communist party or something truly serious, left-liberals like Bernie Sanders are definitely going to be the left's only few chances at regaining relevance in the shorter term, and they will be what the left can start building upwards on. And by this I definitely do not mean Trotskyite coopting of their movements to sell newspapers, but genuinely supporting their efforts in knowing it will advance the discourse in favor of the greater impetus of the left.
Christ, that's pretty awful, but eh he's still very useful as you've said.
Austin Cooper
I need to read more left communist critique. I wasn't very impressed by the bit of Bordiga I read but apparently he's the meme-tier leftcom philosopher.
I agree about Sanders. Kek, did this happen?
He's a scared New Yorker, what can you do?
Landon Jenkins
Their best work is not on general theoretical standpoints, but their direct critiques of 20th century events and exploits.
There is also Paul Mattick, who you can practically consider grandpa Kliman in how he turns on its head the tankie adherence to anti-revisionism by pointing out precisely that is the tankies who revise at the barrel of a gun: marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1937/08/nonsense-planning.htm
That's like the 101 basis of contemporary Trot praxis. I wish I was kidding.
Dylan Bell
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Blake Thompson
I've read Dunayevskaya's work on the USSR already, but not pancake man.
I'll read this later.
Is Mandel like that too?
Logan Smith
Stirnerite-tier smh.
Pancake man, while interesting in his time, is largely discarded nowadays on the ultra/left communist side (theoreies of spontaneous action are generally perceived as idealist and his anti-party rhetoric was largely rendered obsolete by the likes of Dauvé and Bordiga himself in his exchanges, never mind Lenin who very well addressed council communism in Infantile Disorder).
I have yet to read any Mandel but in spite of being a Trotskyist in his time, I heard he was theoretically very sound.
Keep in mind that I am mostly talking about Trot praxis, which is really little more than coopting and shilling for socdems, covering up rape scandals whenever they pop up in their thousand splinter groups, selling newspapers, babying and pandering towards the working class, etc.
Josiah Cooper
bump
Bentley Hughes
Bump for good thread. Can any resident anarchists even seriously defend themselves here?
Tyler Green
Why, just let the marxists babies screech in their safe space alone, they refuse to have any coherent discussion anyway
