MLs and some Marxists in general think we’re too idealistic and utopian. Isn’t expecting the state to wither away by itself when it ceases to be useful pretty idealist? I really don’t understand why MLs think that would happen when it hasn’t happened at all in history.
Merely want to provide a point of view, and not concern trolling, from a demsoc point of view, and my own takeaways from India’s Independence.
Anarchy is perhaps the best way to bring revolutions, but is only an intermediary political structure and not a permanent one. In India, the one who got us freed from British Raj Anglos was Bhagat Singh, an anarcho communist. Gandhi was symbolic in terms of peace and diplomacy but was not the real hero.
For small populations on the scale of a village, structures like anarchy or pure (non representative) democracy can work well. For populations any bigger, and they fail, because too many people cannot think and run on the same protocol by human nature.
The abolishment of a state for large scale populations will bring more chaos than what already exists in corrupt plutocratic capitalist representative democracies, like India and USA. Abolishment of state will again result in groupism, in the form of local thug groups, which will have no law to protect the women and children, and again result in a society ruled by whoever has the most individual (or collective - think of thug coalitions) power.
what are your views on communalism ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism#Libertarian_municipalism
Hello, could you provide some links about Bhagat Singh’s ideology? I’d like to read more about it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/index.htm
https://www.cpim.org/history/barjatykka-and-bhagat-singh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_India#Bhagat_Singh
Some Hindutva (far right Nazi equivalent upper caste Hindus in India) notions debunked in top comment: https://redd.it/jfhnbc
Thanks for the links!
I’m afraid though it doesn’t say anything about Singh being an anarcho-communist 😅, and in fact the wikipedia page claims he was a Marxist. However I’m not giving much credence to wikipedia seeing it’s an imperialist project headed by white men. I think it’s a bit premature to call Singh an anarcho-communist though seeing he also had ties to Marxism, it would probably be more correct to call him a socialist revolutionary.
I cannot cite, I read long ago that he used anarchism temporarily as one of his principles when bringing the revolution with Rajguru, Sukhdev and other people who got us freed from British Raj colonialist imperialism.
Wikipedia is very reliable if you use the talk section. 99% people do not do it. Start doing it and you will realise its value. Anyone who just reads the formatted info on first sight there is simply misguided or pseudo intellectual lmao