10-26-2011, 09:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2011, 10:14 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Again, identification and action are two different things. Just because someone identifies themselves as something, does not mean they are. I can sit here and say I am all for peace, but then if I try to pick a fight with every person I see, am I still considered an advocate for peace?
Maybe you find it ok to follow the rest of the little white mice in the world and agree with norms. I prefer, however, to think critically and question the stereotypes and norms in history that distort the truth. I could care less if 90% of the world disagrees with me, I'm only concerned with the facts. If the facts point to what the majority says, fine. But if I see distortions, half truths, myths, or anything that is otherwise flawed or misconstrued, I will form my own view and stand firmly by it regardless of how much in the minority I am. If the sheep don't like it, I really couldn't care less.
As a true Marxist, I find phrases like "Totalitarian communism" or "revolutionary state socialism" to be hilarious, since they are just words that have very little relationship to reality at best, and are complete oxymorons that distort and rewrite history, at worst. And as a true Marxist, I think Stalinism is quite deplorable and is not worthy of being mentioned as a branch of Marxism since it completely undermines the very values and mission of what Marx envisioned. Rosa Luxemburg, in contrast, was a genuine Marxist, and believed in equality, freedom and democracy for all, to the core, as any true Marxist does. I also do not find it ironic that history, in general, has chosen to ignore the likes of her and other traditional commies, and focus only on Stalin and Mao and to a lesser degree Lenin, who were not Marxist in practice (and probably not in intent either), in an attempt to paint socialism and communism as an evil ideology and those who advocate it to be evil persons, albeit in a very biased and selective way.
Maybe you find it ok to follow the rest of the little white mice in the world and agree with norms. I prefer, however, to think critically and question the stereotypes and norms in history that distort the truth. I could care less if 90% of the world disagrees with me, I'm only concerned with the facts. If the facts point to what the majority says, fine. But if I see distortions, half truths, myths, or anything that is otherwise flawed or misconstrued, I will form my own view and stand firmly by it regardless of how much in the minority I am. If the sheep don't like it, I really couldn't care less.
As a true Marxist, I find phrases like "Totalitarian communism" or "revolutionary state socialism" to be hilarious, since they are just words that have very little relationship to reality at best, and are complete oxymorons that distort and rewrite history, at worst. And as a true Marxist, I think Stalinism is quite deplorable and is not worthy of being mentioned as a branch of Marxism since it completely undermines the very values and mission of what Marx envisioned. Rosa Luxemburg, in contrast, was a genuine Marxist, and believed in equality, freedom and democracy for all, to the core, as any true Marxist does. I also do not find it ironic that history, in general, has chosen to ignore the likes of her and other traditional commies, and focus only on Stalin and Mao and to a lesser degree Lenin, who were not Marxist in practice (and probably not in intent either), in an attempt to paint socialism and communism as an evil ideology and those who advocate it to be evil persons, albeit in a very biased and selective way.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)