• ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Anyone could have said the same to Marx about communism at any point in his life, as he died before the October revolution.

    the difference is you named a bunch of dead ideologies that will never be revived, ML is literally the only form of marxism still flourishing

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        1 year ago

        how is that speculation, its material; Im only interested in ideologies with proven merit.

        Im willing to take a chance of a synthesis on a new idea, but it has to actually offer people something.

        • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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          1 year ago

          It’s speculation because you don’t know what the future holds. And just because you’re not interested in a particular ideology or don’t think it has merit doesn’t make it any less communist.

          My only point is that words do in fact have meaning, Marxist-Leninism is not synonymous with communism. Therefore, one can be anti-tankie without being anti-communist.