Impossibilism is a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxist, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian left, anti-reformist, and revolutionarily spontaneous ideology. Impossibilists hold that any Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination reforms to ameliorate social ills in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism are ultimately futile since it believes immediate reforms strengthen capitalism instead of achieving Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialism in the long term. Adherents to this ideology support structural changes instead of evolutionary reforms like many Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic socialists. They also believe that spontaneous revolutionary actions are the only viable method to achieve a socialist society. Because of this, impossibilists oppose vanguardism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democratic centralism in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism.
History
The idea of impossibilism was brought up by Daniel De Leon, American Marxist theoretician, though he did not coin the term.
How to draw
The design for Impossibilism is based on this, but with the colors reversed.
- Draw a ball,
- Color the ball dark red,
- In the center, draw a white star,
- Draw a dark red clenched fist inside of the star,
- Add two eyes and you're done.
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | #B50A10 | 181, 10, 16 | |
| White | #F0F0F0 | 240, 240, 240 | |
Relationships
Friends
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination De Leonism - My father who taught me almost everything I know.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Luxemburgism - She's opposed to both reformism and vanguardism like me. Also, worker councils and unions are great.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mao-Spontex - Not sure about democratic centralism, but I enjoy your commitment to a spontaneous revolution nonetheless.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Revolutionary Syndicalism - Sorry, but trade unions aren’t effective as a form of revolutionary organization.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism - The working class themselves needs to create a revolution, not just a professional vanguard.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism - I appreciate your socialist ideal, but I don't think that can be achieved by participating in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination liberal democracy. Social reforms will only stabilize capitalism!
Enemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy - Because of decades of reformism, you made too many compromises with the bourgeoisie. You're just a capitalist with a large welfare state!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Capitalism - All the welfare of the world won't erase the fact that your unequal exploitative structure still remains.
Further Information
Literature
- Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Maximilien Rubel and John Crump
Wikipedia
Political Parties
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination World Socialist Party (Ireland)
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination World Socialist Party of India
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialist Party of Canada (WSM)
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination World Socialist Party (New Zealand)
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination World Socialist Party of the United States
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination League of Democratic Socialists
