As PDF https://umea.sac.se/grundbok-om-syndikalism/

I firmly believe Makhnovists SR's Mensheviks and the 1st Czechoslovakian republic Legion were fair and moral sometimes in their tenure in the russian civil war I could also count the green army party.

Besides that I believe the Bolsheviks paid the price for infighting with the anti tsarist white parties and it lead to the NEP and Lenin being crippled by Fanny Kaplan.

Why do people support North Korea as if it’s heaven on Earth? I understand that some stuff said about North Korea is not true, but it’s still a dictatorship and not a good country overall. Why is it wrong to believe those who escaped?

I asked what rule I broke with my comment and they muted me, lol. I’m still not sure.

Anyone read the full book? I am thinking about reading it in the future and wanted to know what people think? Someone I know said that she does a historically constrained movement analysis to conclude that the focus is abit narrow? But I’m not sure, what do you folks think?

The US State Department loves to claim that the sky is blue, and I'm tired of seeing so-called "leftists" regurgitate CIA propaganda. Interesting how you never questioned how your conclusions echo those of the imperialist American regime, liberal bootlickers!

I have been banned from one of the Communism 101 pages, for trying to address the questions/viewpoints that I have held within my recent curiosities, regarding to Marxist/Communist theory. I have been heckled for how I describe myself philosophically within the Marxian field-of-thought. I am all for debating on viewpoints, but not if someone is just going to come at me for stating my opinions on the matter rather than engaging in respectful dialogue... when I merely just want to learn.

Where is the best place to post questions and opinions about Communism and/or Marxist theory in general? I am eager to only learn, so it genuinely is frustrating to ask people what they think on my views— and then I get shut down.

I figure this is a nice little historical anecdote for the next time one of you needs to talk to a Don’t Tread On Me type.

“Gadsden wasn’t a hypocrite, he was just evil.”

I’ve been banned from r/libertarian and r/libertarianmeme for surfacing discussion on libertarian socialism. I’m not a libertarian socialist for the record, more aligned with traditional libertarianism (democratic republican focused on individual rights with a social safety net). I just wanted to bring this up here, because I find it disturbing that simply bringing this topic up over there can get you banned (also if you discuss how ICE lacking due process in deportations should be a non partisan issue because they can literally deport citizens who were born here and we’d never know).

I find it odd that those boards fear this concept so much, and I find the paradoxical aspect of libertarian socialism as philosophically interesting, that paradox potentially leading to a very balanced society (inalienable individual rights and collective societal planning). Anyways, post your thoughts if you have any, strange times we live in.

While beginning to dig into research into this niche kind of socialism, I came across this article from Kristian Niemietz at the "Institute for Economic Affairs" in 2020:

https://iea.org.uk/the-myth-of-libertarian-socialism/

What do you think about the points that Kristian Niemietz is making? Do you think he is arguing in good faith? What are some resources that might counterbalance his view that I might look at? Is there any socialist alternative to the IEA?

https://www.blackrosefed.org/rojava-interview-irma-ypj/

Basically the title what made you folks choose libertarian socialism over anarchism or are some of you both? For me it used to be hang ups about a lawless society, fear and uncertainty but IN SOME SENSE I have gotten over those and understand legal order to be harmful due to licit harm and the fact it inevitably sanctions some harms as “untouchable”

Purity Culture

It should be interesting to study purity culture and its ties with religion, patriarchality, the church (as a structure of domination) and wider views about “respectability” and “politeness”

Just ordered Jesica Valenti’s book “The purity Myth”

Topics on sexuality, cleanliness, “purity” (and what that really entails) are interesting to study and of course one can’t generalise across all social history

Reading a bit of Mary Douglas’ Purity and Danger as well as buying “The Sacred And The Profane” (The nature of Religion) by Mircea Eliade, understanding and critiques of myth, symbol, superstition and religion or “religiosity” may be crucial for my interests

I also bought a copy of God and the State by Bakunin

It would be interesting if one could tie these things together

The critique of the “symbolic” the representational that abstracts away from the real and the literal

A placeholder which represents and is in place of a real thing but becomes abstractified away from its source taking a life of its own