Ask A Red V: The Five-Year Plan

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Looks like the Young Patriots. Bad symbolism, but good work. They grew out of SDS. BPP worked with them and the Young Lords to create the Rainbow Coalition, a joint-venture socialist, anti-racist action group.

Good recognition. Yeah, the YPO was pretty dope. I honestly just find the picture kinda morbidly amusing, with the juxtaposition of the Rebel Flag and the Black Panthers. I believe they did eventually stop using Confederate imagery, but it still seems weird to me that it happened, at all. I guess I see what they were going for, viewing poor Southern whites as a distinct oppressed group that needed to be organized. And to be honest it strikes me as kind of unfortunate that there really is no appropriate pre-existing symbolism for that group due to the history of race in America.

 

[Vectors]

Are you involved with any cooperatives, worker's coops or otherwise?

 

[Lexicus]

PT is neoliberal

A thousand liberal gringos' minds were blown

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Are you involved with any cooperatives, worker's coops or otherwise?

I am involved with two dozen labor organizations in the US. I coordinate volunteer organizer training programs and lead volunteer work crews the renovate and refurbish our facilities, as well as residences. I am an impoverished, unpaid advocate of the working poor and work 14 hours a day and have for 24 years.

 

[Mouthwash]

I am involved with two dozen labor organizations in the US. I coordinate volunteer organizer training programs and lead volunteer work crews the renovate and refurbish our facilities, as well as residences. I am an impoverished, unpaid advocate of the working poor and work 14 hours a day and have for 24 years.

How do you find the time to post on a gaming forum so often?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That's why I [post]
on company time

 

[ReindeerThistle]

How do you find the time to post on a gaming forum so often?

How do I NOT! And, if I may ask, why are you here and not in school.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That's why I [post]
on company time

Of course, I have potty breaks. I am the BOSS!

 

[W|M]

So you're the bourgeoisie?

In my opinion Brazil is in a bad place, and will be for the next several years. There's a likelihood that Dilma could return, and I think some of the other parties are mildly upset about the government reshuffling and have threatened to end their support for Temer, but even if that's the case foreign capital has shown its hand. The reports coming out of Brazil from comrades are neither optimistic or encouraging.

Dilma signed an ''anti-terrorism' law in February that is highly concerning to me personally, especially in the run-up to the Olympics, and she has been implementing brutal austerity measures. She's no better than Temer. Leninists (especially Trots) only care what about what happens in Brasília and don't do anything here, things in Rio are looking more optimistic this year if you look from an anarchist perspective.

On the other hand, the coup forced Maduro to react very defensively and proactively, and I think there are good signs that PSUV is beginning a new leftward push to deepen the roots of Venezuelan socialism to guarantee widespread opposition to any attempted coup d'etat. I personally hope they will finally destroy Venezuelan capital for good, but it's a toss-up as to whether or not they will risk such a venture after such a stinging defeat for Latin American leftism in Brazil.

Thinking that PSUV is potentially socialist now is like thinking that Lenin would give ''all power to the Soviets'' by 1923

 

[ReindeerThistle]

So you're the bourgeoisie?

I am a Communist and a worker. We're all bosses.

Trots, however, need keep an eye out for ice axes, not ar-15s.

Thinking that PSUV is potentially socialist now is like thinking that Lenin would give ''all power to the Soviets'' by 1923

This is ultra-leftism, and incorrect.

If you do not see the value in a United Front, building worker power via comunas and worker control of factories as installing socialism, then I believe you have a different definition of socialusm than workers do.

 

[Daw]

We're all bosses.

Each rifleman is the commander of his rifle.

 

[mech654]

@Chezzy the Wiz
Thank for the answer. I have an another question. While I am getting the Marx-Engel reader, but I am usure which Lenin anthology I should get, which one would you recommand? the Essential works of Lenin edited by Henry Christman or the Lenin anthology edited by Robert C. Tucker.

 

[W|M]

If you do not see the value in a United Front, building worker power via comunas and worker control of factories as installing socialism, then I believe you have a different definition of socialism than workers do.

This talk about a united front would be good if Leninists didn't keep killing Anarchists

 

[Lexicus]

This talk about a united front would be good if Leninists didn't keep killing Anarchists

 

[ReindeerThistle]

This talk about a united front would be good if Leninists didn't keep killing Anarchists

Well, the Carlistas and the requetes were killing anarchists long before "Leninists," but don't expect me to argue over the Spanish Civil War based on a wikipedia page.

Read Dark and Bloody Ground by Francisco Perez Lopez -- a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who never forgot that the Francoists, not Comintern, were the real enemy.

Sheesh, even For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway got THAT right.

 

[W|M]

It's possible to have multiple enemies, you know

 

[ReindeerThistle]

If you make them so. But the anarchists in Spain dug their own grave.

 

[W|M]

Leninists were the ones who attacked the Anarchists

 

[Traitorfish]

Stalinists, specifically, in fairness to the POUM.

 

[Lexicus]

Stalinists, specifically, in fairness to the POUM.

Whether Stalinism follows from Leninism, or is a 'perversion' of Leninism is a whole other thing I've seen argued to death.