Comradeship // Freechat

It's one of those words that I've learned to disassociate from as I've abandoned liberalism and all "ultra", uncritical or otherwise reactionary politics. I use the term Marxist-Leninist and I don't see how any terms like "leftist" or "right-wing" apply to it, since those words are incredibly dogmatic and pigeonholing. One chooses those labels and adopts all that those labels stand for without much thought. It makes it easy to "shut the brain off" and strictly delegate all choice and action to what rules are detailed under any of these politics.

The foundations of Leninism take concern with capitalism in its imperialist, global form, and, coupled with the dialectical materialist grounding of Marxism, tackles it and gives people the tools necessary to gain an understanding of their realities under its hegemony and rule, so that they learn to think and resolve challenges in overthrowing its many fetters and contradictions.

Ultras love disparaging all existing socialist experiments almost as much as the imperialists and their reactionaries instead of understanding that they share a great, common enemy. They're more concerned with whether a country is following Marxism as a doctrine or "holy scripture" to a tee; if they're not, they throw their hands up and say "they're not worth it, they're revisionists". They're perfectly content abandoning these countries and their people in their struggle against the forces of imperialism and all of the terrors that we know it's capable of.

They don't "think" in a dialectically materialist way, and this has allowed them to be deposed and stuck in their tracks time and time again by agents working on behalf of the bourgeois order. They demonstrate that they're not willing to struggle against, at the very least, the contradictions within their very own organizations and cadres or address issues in a good faith, selfless manner. They're not willing to learn or advance beyond their book reading, which is a critical error. For fear of "betraying" the label of "leftism" and all of the static tenets of whatever flavor of leftism they ascribe to, they abandon reason, prudence, selflessness, science, and the international struggle, at large.

When one becomes more familiar with the dialectical materialist process of scrutinizing, analyzing, understanding the world and its phenomena, these terms like "leftism" become nothing more than set backs and impediments to the necessary development of the individual and their class into revolutionaries capable of challenging the bourgeois order, its many systems and proponents, and destroying them to make way for the dictatorship of the proletarian.

In short, leftism has such rigid, dogmatic "rules". It focuses more on preserving the label and membership in these factions that it serves as nothing more than a set back for people in developing the dialectical materialist Marxist worldview necessary to face struggles, adapt to challenges, learn from losses, and ultimately, achieve wins.