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Anti capitalism doesn’t mean abandonment of principles, and in particular leveraging the enemy’s tools (ie the state) only leads to failure for leftist projects
by Ar-Curunir 6y ago
Anti capitalism doesn’t mean abandonment of principles, and in particular leveraging the enemy’s tools (ie the state) only leads to failure for leftist projects. See: USSR, China, every social-democratic party everywhere
- tehjoker 6y agoI think we are in agreement? I would note that the latter part is fairly contentious depending on which leftist you talk to.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoRight, but I think the past century has demonstrated that authoritarian communism has a poor track record at actually abolishing communism, so perhaps we should try something else