They're not always that patient; sometimes they try to seize power before victory is assured. See: the Spanish Civil War.
This is kind of tangential, but I wish people would make distinction between Marxism and Leninism. Marx didn't say shit about the vanguard party. Imo, we can reject Leninism without having to reject Marxism.
Also don't waste your time arguing with me, because I am woefully uneducated and stupid, but I can only work with what I have, ya know?
It's the mechanical gaps in Marxist philosophy which arguably led to Leninist revisionism in that first era.
The annoying part is that there is now like 100 year of post-Lenin philosophy which MLs love to ignore because the thing they actually care about is relitigating 100 year old geopolitics.
I don't think many people on lemmy conflate marxism with leninism outside of .ml, and even there folks seems to see leninism as something on top of marxism and not inherently mixed.
And then we also have people who feel stalinist style "communo facism" would work well because everyone you like will be fed and everyone you don't like will be dead. I don't think anyone ever liked those people, including themselves.
TBF even Leninism is a stark departure from what MLs believe.
If you look at the original plans for the Soviet Union, Lenin was basically planning a Syndicalist Representative-Democracy. Problem was that Lenin got too bogged down in crushing any chance that said democracy would vote against itself, and then Stalin just decided to go full corporate town with it.
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You're absolutely not wrong. MLs are a... stark departure from Marx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina#Defeat_(November_1920_–_August_1921)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Cuba#Post-revolutionary_period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_China#Anarchism_in_the_People's_Republic
Now, we wait for cries of "NATOpedia!" and "CIApedia!"
I don't think you need to provide sources or preemptively defend wikipedia.
In my experience the kind of communists who want to shoot all the anarchists have a detailed knowledge of the history of shooting anarchists and talk openly about the fact that they'll shoot all the anarchists.
Also anarchists tend to be pretty aware of what happens when you oppose state power.
In my experience the kind of communists who want to shoot all the anarchists ....
You're confusing Communists with communists. They're very different. Anarchists tend to be communist. Therefore if communists were shooting anarchists they'd be shooting themselves. Anarchists want a classless stateless society based on Mutual Aid. Which is exactly what actual communist want. Communists on the other hand are a heavily class based society. With an overarching crushing state that commands everything. Destroying and slaughtering any dissent against the Vanguard party and it's oppression of the proletariat.
Communists are in no way communist. They are a completely different ideology. Often referred to as ml or Marxist leninist. And Lemmy is rife with them. They would get away imprison or Slaughter any communist or anarchist who spoke out against them or their perceived Revolution
In my experience the kind of communists who want to shoot all the anarchists have a detailed knowledge of the history of shooting anarchists and talk openly about the fact that they’ll shoot all the anarchists.
Wish I had the same experience on Lemmy. Honesty is not in great supply for the tankies here, who prefer to pretend that 'United Front' means something to "AES" states (emphasis on the quotes) other than "Oh boy, I can't wait to backstab everyone to my left"
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You cannot use a nation state to fix problems with the nation state. Marxism in general has real "the free market will regulate itself" vibes.
It's just hopelessly modernist and fails in all the same ways every modernist philosophy of that era does. That's why it's annoying why MLs try to lecture you like they know political science - because they clearly have some pretty massive polisci 101 blind spots.
Marxism doesn't call on the state to do that. That's leninism. Marxism is highly unobjectionable. The problem is how we get there. Marx himself spoke of an evolution over a long period of time in Society to arrive there. However humans desire immediate gratification. And thus that was unsatisfactory for most people. Which is where Engles, Lenin and others enter the picture. Who thought they could jump start communism/marxism using the very thing that kept communism/Marxism from being possible. The state.
I'm generally sympathetic to Marxism in general, but that's not the main thrust of the meme so I'll just say "Marxists aren't inherently tankies" and leave it at that.
I suppose the question is how do you go from state to no state in one fell swoop?
That's the first question, the second question is where do you bury all the damn bodies?
The third question is: "Oh shit, did we just kill all the farmers? Anybody know how to grow food?"
This is the point you really hope you're not ukrainian. Or, just, any Asians really.
Inb4 "wrecker"
