Category Socialism

Sectarianism on the Left

(Another post in the wake of my post, “I got purged” from a far left grouplet.) Peter Camejo nails it, describing how the absolutist views of Marxist vanguard parties (coupled with their imitation of who they think Lenin was) virtually…

I’ve been purged!

But then, I never have been able to turn off my brain and robotically accept dogma. My thought crime apparently involved being insufficiently Marxist. Mentioned this to a long-time socialist friend who laughed and said, congratulations. A Steppenwolf lyric seems…

Socialism and Stalin

Squirrel Communism looks at the horrors of Stalinism and the sometimes tendency of the socialist left to say this occurred outside of or was a perversion of the revolution. If we are to deal with this problem and eventually overcome…

Chávez tactical u-turn on socialism

Chavez is abandoning his socialist agenda “for now,” granting amnesty to right-wing coup plotters, replacing left-wingers in his cabinet, and signaling he wants to build alliances with the bourgeoisie. New Statesman opines the recent defeat of socialism at the Venezuela…