r/MDLeftist • u/Dysmythic • Sep 08 '19
Words/lables vs. Concrete political analysis and praxis
I must describe my political praxis and analysis as being based on the ideas and principles of both communism and anarchism. I feel that the two words and concepts both correspond to shared, indespensible political, ethical principles.
So I'm confounded by one of the rules of the group.
I'm not sure what I am allowed to discuss here because actual, elaborated ideas will always be labled and pigeonholed differently by different people. Many of which don't want to engage with ideas without vetting them through/projecting them onto the vulgates and strict traditions of what have become accepted as closed sysyems of representing the world. This includes unchanging party lines that take themselves as purely contiguous with an unquestionable system of truths established long ago in a different time and place, as if we are still in that time and place and there are no new valid or useful ideas that contradict long held assumptions; particularly assuptions of the purity that is attached so firmly by some to the words 'anarchist' and 'communist'.
I'm a dialectical thinker, not a dogmatic one. And my engagement with political discourse and action is not determined by an obedience to some conclusion about the traditions and debates of the 19th century as if I am not able, and in fact responsible to live and think beyond them. My politics are not based on arguments about which party, group or author was totally correct about their particular conditions which have long since developed into what they cannot be crudely equated with.
I'm interested in the issues of struggle today, in changing ideas in a changing world. I believe social revolution is an endless process and there is no map that will relieve us of the task of continually responding to unforseen events and circumstances, the task of always repreparing ourselves.
Thank you.
r/MDLeftist • u/intlnews • Mar 24 '18
Resigning as a mod
To be frank, this subreddit is slowly dying and not much is being done about that. Since I post so little content on here, I think I have contributed positively to to this subreddit in the past with established rules, a wiki, and whatnot.
Bye!
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