Interesting, thank you for explaining! Perhaps revolutionary communist is a better label for the grouping of leftist ideology y’all fit into then?
Thank you for the reading reccomendation :). At some point I need to make myself sit down and read some theory, I just haven’t had the bandwidth yet. From the title “reform or revolution” by Rosa Luxembourg sounds interesting, and it looks like my library has it as an audio book or eBook ☺️
If you’d be open to chatting more and discussing kind of a broad question I’ve had- As I’ve explored a bit I’ve found I most intuitively relate to anarchism, but there are problems or social needs I can see anarchism potentially struggling to fill, so I have wanted to learn more about other leftist ideology and see where I end up. A lot of what I find intimidating about ideologies or governments that might fall into the revolutionary communist category is that through the perspective I have now, they seem authoritarian. What kind of actual governmental structure (or structures) in terms of power do revolutionary communists seek? How does power get organized? Are there ways that they structurally seek to counterbalance the way that concentrated power leads to overreach (like in western capitalist society democracy is ostensibly supposed to fill that role)? Like can revolutionary communism be Democratic (I know many folks feel electoralism is somewhat of a trap)? Are there reasons that doesnt seem like a concern to you for other reasons I may not have considered? (I don’t really mean to ask 30 seperate questions, I just wanna leave things open ended to whatever kind of answer makes the most sense, and I don’t know what kinda answer that might be)
Regardless, thanks for taking the time to reply previously, and I’d be curious to hear more of your thoughts if you have more energy to explain how you see stuff ☺️
Interesting, thank you for explaining! Perhaps revolutionary communist is a better label for the grouping of leftist ideology y’all fit into then?
Thank you for the reading reccomendation :). At some point I need to make myself sit down and read some theory, I just haven’t had the bandwidth yet. From the title “reform or revolution” by Rosa Luxembourg sounds interesting, and it looks like my library has it as an audio book or eBook ☺️
If you’d be open to chatting more and discussing kind of a broad question I’ve had- As I’ve explored a bit I’ve found I most intuitively relate to anarchism, but there are problems or social needs I can see anarchism potentially struggling to fill, so I have wanted to learn more about other leftist ideology and see where I end up. A lot of what I find intimidating about ideologies or governments that might fall into the revolutionary communist category is that through the perspective I have now, they seem authoritarian. What kind of actual governmental structure (or structures) in terms of power do revolutionary communists seek? How does power get organized? Are there ways that they structurally seek to counterbalance the way that concentrated power leads to overreach (like in western capitalist society democracy is ostensibly supposed to fill that role)? Like can revolutionary communism be Democratic (I know many folks feel electoralism is somewhat of a trap)? Are there reasons that doesnt seem like a concern to you for other reasons I may not have considered? (I don’t really mean to ask 30 seperate questions, I just wanna leave things open ended to whatever kind of answer makes the most sense, and I don’t know what kinda answer that might be)
Regardless, thanks for taking the time to reply previously, and I’d be curious to hear more of your thoughts if you have more energy to explain how you see stuff ☺️