I was listening to an online debate of a Trot (Gustavo Machado) vs some guys representing what they call “political materialism” (Diego Ruzzarin and the other I can’t remember), some branch of Marxism from Mexico. It was surprising how this esoteric Marxist school had more positive things to say about previous and current socialist experiences than the Trot guy.
It’s like Trots (and other West-aligned schools) can’t go further than liberal concepts of democracy, or a very utopic notion of what a socialist transition would look like. Therefore, when they see how socialist experiments existed in history and they don’t match their own utopian conceptions of a socialist transition, then they reject the socialist experience. What is worse, they basically see all other socialist or communist orgs or countries as enemies to be fought.
I’m completely sure that these schools of thought are not real but deliberately thought up concepts of the bourgeoisie to derail socialists. It has the same logic as liberalism and other dysfunctional movements. Its like the local undertaker funding snake oil salesmen. Opportunists are fundamentally just humans who had to let go of their principles to survive. I have had to do it and many others did as well. The difference between opportunism in life and death situations and an opportunist in the political sense is the knowledge that opportunism destroys trust and thus destroys power for change. That is why the bourgois state funds opportunism (trotsky) to have people go at each others throats.
I’m currently reading fanon. He explains this really well. The book is wretched of the earth. Available as audio book on tankie tube.
I was listening to an online debate of a Trot (Gustavo Machado) vs some guys representing what they call “political materialism” (Diego Ruzzarin and the other I can’t remember), some branch of Marxism from Mexico. It was surprising how this esoteric Marxist school had more positive things to say about previous and current socialist experiences than the Trot guy.
It’s like Trots (and other West-aligned schools) can’t go further than liberal concepts of democracy, or a very utopic notion of what a socialist transition would look like. Therefore, when they see how socialist experiments existed in history and they don’t match their own utopian conceptions of a socialist transition, then they reject the socialist experience. What is worse, they basically see all other socialist or communist orgs or countries as enemies to be fought.
I’m completely sure that these schools of thought are not real but deliberately thought up concepts of the bourgeoisie to derail socialists. It has the same logic as liberalism and other dysfunctional movements. Its like the local undertaker funding snake oil salesmen. Opportunists are fundamentally just humans who had to let go of their principles to survive. I have had to do it and many others did as well. The difference between opportunism in life and death situations and an opportunist in the political sense is the knowledge that opportunism destroys trust and thus destroys power for change. That is why the bourgois state funds opportunism (trotsky) to have people go at each others throats.
I’m currently reading fanon. He explains this really well. The book is wretched of the earth. Available as audio book on tankie tube.