Card carrying ML, speaks french, english, spanish, they/them
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Some might find this post distasteful or fear even engaging with its content remotely in good faith because of the indoctrination and lies they’ve been force fed over the past several years on the topic, but gotta eat your greens: this is a fantastic and necessary post that will, hopefully, be read largely.
Thanks comrade, glad to be here <3
I don’t want to be an ass, truly, but any foundational guide to ML should include marxist feminist texts, decolonization texts, and marxist influenced queer liberation texts.
ML is an evolving science and giving a reading guide that is fundamentally pre 1920 is not great. It’s reminiscent of what trots do tbh.
Seeing Sakai, who is valuable, but memeified, but not Fanon? Really?
Atleast include Kollontai, also. Maybe also some Arruzza and Federici.
Disagree or agree with PSL, but their liberation school curriculum is on point.
IMO this list is filled with redundant texts and non necessary reads also. This is fully inadequate to beginners, and also runs the risk of beginners seeing necessary and crucial developments in ML thought as secondary. A lot needs to be scrapped.
I’d also recommend including Althusser and Gramsci.
How do you reconcile that with the fact the vast majority of the IMCWP stands close to or right on the KKE’s position on the whole shitshow in Ukraine?
Are these all “new communists”? Seems to me that’s more like the OG guard that safeguarded ML wherever they were throughout the liquidationist and opportunist shitshow that was the 90s to the 2000s.
I’m the first one to call out ultra-leftism but it seems to me there is a certain bias to right deviation in here.
I would wager it is because most comrades here are unfortunately not active organizationally, may that be in their local youth league or party. As much as this space is great, it smells a bit overly online. That’s understandable tho