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'''Neo-Leninism''' is an [[File:Soc-h.png]] economically far-left, [[File:Prgess.png]] culturally left ideology based on the ideological interpretations of Marxism by [[File:Lenin.png]] Vladimir Lenin known as [[File:Orthlen.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Leninism}}''' . It takes significant ideological influences from '''{{colorlink|#ed1c24|Classical Social Democracy#Luxemburgist Left|Luxemburgism}}''' and minor ideological influences from [[File:MLM.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ed020f|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|Maoism}}'''.
What happens when you cross [[File:Orthlen.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Leninism}}''', [[File:Councom.png]] '''{{colorlink|#d40100|Council Communism}}''' and [[File:ItalianLeftCom.png]] '''{{colorlink|#8A1E1E|Italian Left Communism|Internationalist Communism}}'''? You get this. Vanguardism with Council Communism. Crazy ass shit.
 
I don't like Marxist-Leninists.
For the most part, it is literally just [[File:Orthlen.png]] Leninism, with few minor tweaks to select parts of the ideology to update the ideology to the modern day.  
That is literally it. I am a Leninist with a few agreements with Maoism about stuff like the Cultural Revolution and PPW and whatever, and I hate Stalinism/Marxism-Leninism. That's it.  
== Summarized Beliefs ==
== Summarized Beliefs ==
=== [[File:Orthlen.png]] Government [[File:Erga.png]] ===
=== [[File:Orthlen.png]] Government [[File:Erga.png]] ===
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is obvious. This government should be composed of Soviets- workers' and peasants' councils which start all the way from the workplace to the national level. Preferably the government should be bottom-up; that is decision-making from the base of this 'Union of Soviets' should start at the local level and work its way nationally rather than the other way around.
council communism. congress of soviets. soviet democracy. pretty self-explanatory.  
I would also propose that although it is necessary to create a national 'Supreme Soviet' that it should not serve as an actual governmental organism in its own right, but rather as a way to ease decision-making between the different Soviets.


=== [[File:WPD.png]] Economics [[File:Orthlen.png]] ===
=== [[File:WPD.png]] Economics [[File:Orthlen.png]] ===
Workplace democracy. Soviets. Decentralized planned economy. The workers themselves in each factory will decide their quotas, their metrics, their outputs. Safeguards will have to be put in place, and this system comes with the risk of sabotage, but I have faith in the honesty and integrity of a people who have finally broken their chains.
bottom up system. not necessarily decentralized planning, but it could perhaps be seen as such.  
=== [[File:ProlIntern.png]] Diplomacy [[File:Socialist Patriotism.png]] ===
=== [[File:ProlIntern.png]] Diplomacy [[File:ProlIntern.png]] ===
I don't like [[File:Socialist Patriotism.png]], but I see it as somewhat of an important tool. Said 'socialist patriotism', of course, cannot be based in ethnic or even civic lines, but only in the lines of the proletariat.<br>
giga proletarian annihilation of classes, nations, and countries
At the same time we must understand that the lines between patriotism and nationalism are blurred, and thus I caution against it. This is why I refer to myself as a Proletarian Internationalist and believe in a world revolution; because communism may only succeed on a global (if not continental) scale.
=== [[File:Ecosoc.png]] Technology & Nature [[File:Cybercom.png]] ===
=== [[File:Ecosoc.png]] Technology & Nature [[File:Cybercom.png]] ===
Who says you can't combine ecologism with computers and science?
Who says you can't combine ecologism with computers and science?
=== [[File:Socialist Patriotism.png]] Culture [[File:Progcom.png]] [[File:RedGuard.png]] ===
=== [[File:Progcom.png]] Culture [[File:RedGuard.png]] ===
Stalin and Mao were correct in their assessments that even after a proletarian revolution and even after the supposed purging of these elements that the bourgeois classes still remain influential in society... which is why it is necessary to purge their influences (and them) through a revolution of culture itself; the breaking of a bourgeois culture focused on profit and hedonism and a construction of the culture of the proletariat. Everything in this current world must be swept away; culture is no exception to this.
cultural revolution. blah blah.


== you will read theory, inshallah ==
== you will read theory, inshallah ==
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* [[File:Ormarxf.png]] '''{{colorlink|#c1272d|Marxism}}''' - Hi, dad.
* [[File:Ormarxf.png]] '''{{colorlink|#c1272d|Marxism}}''' - Hi, dad.
** [[File:Orthlen.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Leninism}}''' - Hi, other dad.
** [[File:Orthlen.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Leninism}}''' - Hi, other dad.
** [[File:Luxem.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ed1c24|Classical Social Democracy#Luxemburgist Left|Luxemburgism}}''' - Hi, mom.
=== Family ===
=== Family ===
* [[File:Councom.png]] '''{{colorlink|#d40100|Council Communism}}''' - I do consider myself a council communist, though obviously quite a heterodox one. Councils can still be the basis of a socialist society while co-existing with a vanguard party; the two aren't incompatible as many of you so-believe.
* [[File:Councom.png]] '''{{colorlink|#d40100|Council Communism}}''' - My relationship with you is complicated; probably because of my quite heterodox interpretations of councilism. I would very much like to say that I believe that a proletarian revolution can only be organized through a vanguard party, but at the same time I recognize and believe that it is only through the will of the proletariat itself, organizing itself through things like... councils! Or soviets.
* [[File:ML.png]] '''{{colorlink|#c90101|Marxism-Leninism}}''' - You ''are'' revisionist, and I frankly only am related to you through the ideologies which spawned off of you, but I can't deny you have at least some ideological influence on me as a result.
* [[File:Trot.png]] '''{{Colorlink|#CC0000|Bolshevik-Leninism}}''' - You definitely get an unfair bad rep, paraded around mostly by "Marxist"-"Leninists" who gobble up whatever Stalin and the degenerated workers' party spewed out to try and justify his power grab. Do I agree with Trotsky on a lot of things? Yes. Would I consider myself a Trotskyist? I'd consider myself somewhat close to it. Just... not close enough to put you in the family section. Sorry.
** [[File:Mao.png]] '''{{colorlink|#df2408|Maoism|Mao Zedong Thought}}''' - I wouldn't classify myself ever as an adherent to MZT (or even Maoism), but I definitely find myself agreeing with you on a lot of things, such as the cultural revolution, protracted people's war, the mass line and the like.
* [[File:Luxem.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ed1c24|Classical Social Democracy#Luxemburgist Left|Luxemburgism}}''' - I do quite like you. You're alright. Just please stop calling Lenin a [[File:AnSynd.png]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalist]]... whatever ''that'' is supposed to imply.
*** [[File:MLM.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ed020f|Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|Maoism}}''' - See above.
* [[File:ItalianLeftCom.png]] '''{{colorlink|#8A1E1E|Italian Left Communism|Internationalist Communism}}''' - Mean book nerds. But you did influence me.
* [[File:Socialist Patriotism.png]] '''{{Colorlink|#ed1d26|Left-Wing Nationalism|Socialist Patriotism}}''' - I approach you with caution. A people should hold genuine love for their land or their people, but history has shown that the line between patriotism and nationalism is often more blurred than expected.
* [[File:ProlIntern.png]] '''{{Colorlink|#cc0000|Internationalism|Proletarian Internationalism}}''' - What communist movement can claim to be truly communist if it focuses solely on itself? The workers of the world will break off their chains one day.
* [[File:ProlIntern.png]] '''{{Colorlink|#cc0000|Internationalism|Proletarian Internationalism}}''' - What communist movement can claim to be truly communist if it focuses solely on itself? The workers of the world will break off their chains one day.
=== Friends ===
=== Friends ===
* [[File:Libmarx.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ff0000|Libertarian Socialism|Libertarian Marxism}}''' - You know what? You're alright. I'm quite the fan of a decentralized planned economy... but some of you are too close to Anarchism for comfort.  
* [[File:Libmarx.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ff0000|Libertarian Socialism|Libertarian Marxism}}''' - I mean- you're alright... there's nothing necessarily wrong with seeing Marxism from a more libertarian perspective. But like- come on. Some of you are way too close to anarchism for comfort.
=== Neutral ===
=== Neutral ===
* [[File:Kautsky.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e50000|Classical Social Democracy#Centre|Centrist Marxism}}''' - I wouldn't exactly classify you as one of my ideological influences, but I do agree with you that the construction of socialism requires a combination of both reformism and revolutionary activity. It's a shame how you turned out later, though.
* [[File:Kautsky.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e50000|Classical Social Democracy#Centre|Centrist Marxism}}''' - I don't know how to feel about you. I don't think you're as bad as people say you are but... you're still bad. Very much bad.  
=== lumpenproletariat ===
=== lumpenproletariat ===
* [[File:Bernst.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e10600|Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism}}''' - Probably worse than Lasalleanism in the damage it's done to the socialist and communist movement.
* [[File:ML.png]] '''{{colorlink|#c90101|Marxism-Leninism}}''' - Marxism-Leninism has been, without a doubt, the most damaging thing to the proletarian movement in ''all'' of its history. Even more than social democracy- even more than Bernstein... just straight up worse than socdems.
** [[File:Stalin.png]] '''{{colorlink|#CA0000|Stalinism}}''' - do not tell stalinists who scream about revisionism and anti-reformism that stalin was a reformist who forced communist movements to collaborate with liberals (fascists), authored programs for communist parties like the communist party of great britain which explicitly denounced revolutionary activity in favor of reformism, denied proletarian revolution in france because he thought "we would win by elections" and also that he scrapped an entire ready-to-go communist cabinet for austria in favor of a would-be nazi collaborator socdem who got his ass rejected by the nazis because he was a socdem
*** [[File:Mao.png]] '''{{colorlink|#df2408|Maoism|Mao Zedong Thought}}''' - Maoism is Anti-Communism. You do have a ''few'' bright ideas, though. Now fuck off.
* [[File:Bernst.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e10600|Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism}}''' - I take my comment back. You still suck. You are still absolutely ''horrible'', but I don't think you fucked up as badly as ^ he did.
** [[File:Socdem.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Social Democracy}}''' - Abandoned historical and dialectical materialism in favor of sucking up to capitalism and trying to 'fix it', as if though it isn't functioning as intended.
** [[File:Socdem.png]] '''{{colorlink|#cc0000|Social Democracy}}''' - Abandoned historical and dialectical materialism in favor of sucking up to capitalism and trying to 'fix it', as if though it isn't functioning as intended.
** [[File:Demsocstar.png]] '''{{colorlink|#d60f18|Democratic Socialism}}''' - Not as guilty of appalling revisionism as [[File:Succdem.png]] Succdem and Bernstein up here, but most of you are still pretty revisionist... and most of you have no idea what 'socialism' or 'Marxism' even means.
** [[File:Demsocstar.png]] '''{{colorlink|#d60f18|Democratic Socialism}}''' - Not as guilty of appalling revisionism as [[File:Succdem.png]] Succdem and Bernstein up here, but most of you are still pretty revisionist... and most of you have no idea what 'socialism' or 'Marxism' even means.
* [[File:Marketsoc.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e60000|Market Socialism}}''' - Pretty misguided.
* [[File:Marketsoc.png]] '''{{colorlink|#e60000|Market Socialism}}''' - We should, as a matter of fact, not continue the same economic principles that capitalism operates under.
* [[File:Ancomcuck.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ff0000|Anarcho-Communism}}''' (and [[File:Anar1.png]] Anarchism in general) - Egoists who mask as socialists. Often don't engage the world materially. Barely any better than reformists.
* [[File:AncomCuck.png]] '''{{colorlink|#ff0000|Anarcho-Communism}}''' (and [[File:Anar1.png]] Anarchism in general) - Anarchists by matter of principle do not oppose fascism, statism, or any other self-identified form of unrighteous authority for the purpose of constructing a better world without them, but for their own self-gain. They are egoists; and they are egoists of the most disgusting order, attempting to mask themselves as selfless anti-fascists when in reality their only opposition to fascism is the fact that it strengthens the state rather than weakens it.
* [[File:Libtard.png]] '''{{colorlink|#006AA7|Liberalism}}''' - I wouldn't have a problem with most of you. The problem is that almost every liberal I have interacted with has expressed the most dogshit, out of pocket, fascistic views ever known to mankind. Please stop.
* [[File:Libtard.png]] '''{{colorlink|#006AA7|Liberalism}}''' - Be quiet.
** [[File:LibtardSoc.png]] '''{{colorlink|#D00505|Liberal Socialism}}''' - Marx is crying from his grave.
** [[File:LibtardSoc.png]] '''{{colorlink|#D00505|Liberal Socialism}}''' - Marx is crying from his grave.
=== the big bads ===
=== the big bads ===

Revision as of 02:19, 2 January 2024

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What happens when you cross Leninism, Council Communism and Internationalist Communism? You get this. Vanguardism with Council Communism. Crazy ass shit. I don't like Marxist-Leninists.

Summarized Beliefs

Government

council communism. congress of soviets. soviet democracy. pretty self-explanatory.

Economics

bottom up system. not necessarily decentralized planning, but it could perhaps be seen as such.

Diplomacy

giga proletarian annihilation of classes, nations, and countries

Technology & Nature

Who says you can't combine ecologism with computers and science?

Culture

cultural revolution. blah blah.

you will read theory, inshallah

Relationships

Parents

Family

  • Council Communism - My relationship with you is complicated; probably because of my quite heterodox interpretations of councilism. I would very much like to say that I believe that a proletarian revolution can only be organized through a vanguard party, but at the same time I recognize and believe that it is only through the will of the proletariat itself, organizing itself through things like... councils! Or soviets.
  • Bolshevik-Leninism - You definitely get an unfair bad rep, paraded around mostly by "Marxist"-"Leninists" who gobble up whatever Stalin and the degenerated workers' party spewed out to try and justify his power grab. Do I agree with Trotsky on a lot of things? Yes. Would I consider myself a Trotskyist? I'd consider myself somewhat close to it. Just... not close enough to put you in the family section. Sorry.
  • Luxemburgism - I do quite like you. You're alright. Just please stop calling Lenin a Anarcho-Syndicalist... whatever that is supposed to imply.
  • Internationalist Communism - Mean book nerds. But you did influence me.
  • Proletarian Internationalism - What communist movement can claim to be truly communist if it focuses solely on itself? The workers of the world will break off their chains one day.

Friends

  • Libertarian Marxism - I mean- you're alright... there's nothing necessarily wrong with seeing Marxism from a more libertarian perspective. But like- come on. Some of you are way too close to anarchism for comfort.

Neutral

  • Centrist Marxism - I don't know how to feel about you. I don't think you're as bad as people say you are but... you're still bad. Very much bad.

lumpenproletariat

  • Marxism-Leninism - Marxism-Leninism has been, without a doubt, the most damaging thing to the proletarian movement in all of its history. Even more than social democracy- even more than Bernstein... just straight up worse than socdems.
    • Stalinism - do not tell stalinists who scream about revisionism and anti-reformism that stalin was a reformist who forced communist movements to collaborate with liberals (fascists), authored programs for communist parties like the communist party of great britain which explicitly denounced revolutionary activity in favor of reformism, denied proletarian revolution in france because he thought "we would win by elections" and also that he scrapped an entire ready-to-go communist cabinet for austria in favor of a would-be nazi collaborator socdem who got his ass rejected by the nazis because he was a socdem
      • Mao Zedong Thought - Maoism is Anti-Communism. You do have a few bright ideas, though. Now fuck off.
  • Bernsteinism - I take my comment back. You still suck. You are still absolutely horrible, but I don't think you fucked up as badly as ^ he did.
    • Social Democracy - Abandoned historical and dialectical materialism in favor of sucking up to capitalism and trying to 'fix it', as if though it isn't functioning as intended.
    • Democratic Socialism - Not as guilty of appalling revisionism as Succdem and Bernstein up here, but most of you are still pretty revisionist... and most of you have no idea what 'socialism' or 'Marxism' even means.
  • Market Socialism - We should, as a matter of fact, not continue the same economic principles that capitalism operates under.
  • Anarcho-Communism (and Anarchism in general) - Anarchists by matter of principle do not oppose fascism, statism, or any other self-identified form of unrighteous authority for the purpose of constructing a better world without them, but for their own self-gain. They are egoists; and they are egoists of the most disgusting order, attempting to mask themselves as selfless anti-fascists when in reality their only opposition to fascism is the fact that it strengthens the state rather than weakens it.
  • Liberalism - Be quiet.

the big bads

You already know what this section would be referring to, so rather than providing commentary which has been given time and time again, have a list of icons instead.



If I add you here by myself, it usually means I have a lot to say about you.

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  • Dick's Sea Socialist - You're not that bad. I've seen way worse on this wiki... I should know. But like, man, come on. You were so close. You had an understanding of the need to sweep the slate clean and create a new culture, you understood that only on a global scale can communism be achieved... Then you went off and became an egoist?


How many times I gotta say it. Just because it sounds cool doesn't mean it is. It's revisionist. Communism is incompatible with Egoism. You get 2 points off for that. Another point off for being obsesssed with Dixie or whatever. 7/10.

    • Venatrixism how is Egoist Communist, Revisionist and Incompatible. Engels literally said this once "We are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals."[1]
      • This is a misunderstanding of what Engels is referring to here. If we must understand the actual context of the quote, we must do a lot further reading.

... This egoism is simply the essence of present society and present man brought to consciousness, the ultimate that can be said against us by present society, the culmination of all the theory intrinsic to the prevailing stupidity. But that's precisely what makes the thing important, more important than Hess, for one, holds it to be. We must not simply cast it aside, but rather use it as the perfect expression of present-day folly and, while inverting it, continue to build on it. This egoism is taken to such a pitch, it is so absurd and at the same time so self-aware, that it cannot maintain itself even for an instant in its one-sidedness, but must immediately change into communism. In the first place it's a simple matter to prove to Stirner that his egoistic man is bound to become communist out of sheer egoism.
... But we must also adopt such truth as there is in the principle. And it is certainly true that we must first make a cause our own, egoistic cause, before we can do anything to further it – and hence that in this sense, irrespective of any eventual material aspirations, we are communists out of egoism also, and it is out of egoism that we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals. Or to put it another way. Stirner is right in rejecting Feuerbach's ‘man’, or at least the ‘man’ of Das Wesen des Christentums. [13] Feuerbach deduces his ‘man’ from God, it is from God that he arrives at ‘man’, and hence ‘man’ is crowned with a theological halo of abstraction. The true way to arrive at ‘man’ is the other way about. We must take our departure from the Ego, the empirical, flesh-and-blood individual, if we are not, like Stirner, to remain stuck at this point but rather proceed to raise ourselves to ‘man’. ‘man’ will always remain a wraith so long as his basis is not empirical man.
This passage is very much often seen as proof that Engels or even Marx subscribed to the idea that communism is Egoistic; or that it is even compatible with such the ideology. Yet doing the slightest bit of further reading proves the exact opposite. Engels states directly that rather than embracing the Ego that we must 'depart' from it; to discard it in favor of 'man'; empirical man. This is further backed by his previous statement in which he states that it is out of egoism which [sic] "we wish to be human beings, not mere individuals". In other words, Engels here is advocating for evolving past the idea of the individual; as lone organism which acts purely of his own ego, and towards the idea of human beings; the empirical man, humanity as a whole.
The term 'egoism' in this context does not refer to the Egoism of Stirner but simply the act of self-interest. It is, indeed, in Engel's self-interest (and thus out of egoism) that he is a communist and that he wishes to be a human being rather than a simple 'individual'. Those who unironically believe in what they believe in believe in it as such because it will one way or another benefit their self-interest. The important thing to note here is that Engels states that this is not the reason why he is a communist. He states that this is irrespective of material aspirations; of the basis for a communist society.
We again cannot ignore the fact that throughout this entire article, Engels is shitting on Stirner's concept of the ego; pointing out its contradictions and absurdities. He points out that the idea that man is selfish and driven only by Ego is stupid and instead points out that 'the human heart is of itself, from the very outset, unselfish and self-sacrificing'. This is what he is referring to by 'one-sidedness'; the one-sidedness of Egoism which believes there to only be the Ego and nothing else.
Engels seeks to use the idea of egoism to prove a point; that it doesn't work, that under its own absurdities and contradictions that its adherents are more likely to turn to communism, a decidedly anti-egoist (or perhaps post-egoist) than to continue as an egoist. He advocates not for an embracement of the ego or of egoism to reinforce it, but rather to destroy it; to destroy the idea of the individual in favor of the empirical Man, not separate from society, not disconnected from its goals, but united with it while still maintaining his own goals. It is in the self-interest of the Ego to destroy itself. That is the point he is making.
Even if we were to make the rather stretchable conclusion that Engels is not denouncing egoism but instead supporting it, he is certainly not advocating for the nihilistic, purely individualistic and immaterial worldview of Stirner. We therefore can make the conclusion that no, communism is not compatible with egoism. Rather, the conclusion to be made is that out of egoism, the idea of the 'Ego' will abolish itself.

      • Venatrixism - fair enough I have reverted back to being just a individualist marxist
      • Engels is literally advocating for the abolition of the individual in favor of the empirical 'man'. You have changed nothing.


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  • Neo-Anbax - Seems to be confused. Claims to be an egoist and an individualist but also a collectivist. Claims to be an Egoist but is an authoritarian. Claims to be a nihilist but is also an optimist.

I've said enough on Egoists for you to know how I feel about Egoists and the lot. Not much for me to say on that.

  • Neo-Neo-Baxism - What do I have to say about you? You're the exact same as before, you just cleaned up your article and supposedly removed a couple of its contradictions.

No more larping. Bad. *swats*. And Contrarianism doesn't mean 'be contradictory' it means 'you're opposed to ruling/prevailing political ideologies'.

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  • brazil - Brazillian. Instantly sent to the 6th circle of hell.

larpers