Hello, my name is Aidan. You may have met me before, however, since then my views have changed as I have learned more about history and politics.

I am a marxist. I believe capitalism is evil and needs to be abolished. I believe that change ultimately comes through through the working class. I believe workers are exploited through the capitalist system. And I believe the answer is a society in which the workers control the means of production.

I am a Trotskyist. I accept Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky, but very much reject Stalin. Stalin came to power because the revolution didn't spread, and he destroyed the revolution in the name of the revolution. By the 1930's the USSR was not a communist country, but a quasi facist regime. If you need proof of my statements. When did the workers ever have any form of control or power in the USSR under Stalin? If you disagreed with Stalin you were executed, and he was a murderer who killed millions upon millions of innocent people. He banned workers strikes. Every single true revolutionary was murdered by him. It was no longer communist, but something along the lines of 1984. The USSR under Stalin was NOT communist. Also, in World War 2, Stalin's propaganda had nothing to do with communism, but instead protecting "Mother Russia!" Communism is not supposed to be nationalistic, but in Russia, they refer to World War 2 as the "Great Patriotic War." I understand that he beat Hitler, but that doesn't make him any less evil and tyrannical. The British Empire helped defeat Hitler, and we can all agree that they were tyrannical oppressors.

The USSR was hollowed out, so it became a state totally controlled by bureaucrats, no longer a workers state, but a degenerate workers state. Even during the Khrushchev Thaw, the USSR was still an authoritarian regime, and Brezhnev then undid all of those reforms.

As communists, if we defend Stalin and the USSR, we are defending the indefensible. My slogan is "Neither Washington Nor Moscow, but International Socialism!"

I believe socialism ultimately has to be a world wide thing, like Marx said, and like every single actual communist (Not a nationalist disguised as a communist,) said.

Karl Marx's "Workers of the World Unite!" could not be any clearer, socialism has to work worldwide, otherwise capitalist forces will destroy it. Need proof? How come Venezuela failed? Because foreign big businesses didn't invest in it and corrupt businessmen just sold stuff elsewhere. Nearly every single progressive government has been taken out by capitalist forces, either quickly by imperialist powers, or more slowly by big business. Look at Iran, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile...... And the list goes on.

Just because I despise the Soviet regime however, doesn't mean I don't like Soviet aesthetics, music, statues, etc.... Art has to be taken for what it is, not where it came from, and despite the regime all Soviet art came from, it is absolutely beautiful, and shows truly what revolution and socialism is about, even if the regime it came from was not communist in the slightest.

Another thing which separates me from a lot of people. Is that I believe that we have to "try" to bring change through parliament. Now this does not mean that I think it will be successful, but people these days are so brainwashed thinking they live in a democracy, that we must DEMONSTRATE why it doesn't work. In the UK where I come from, loads of social democrats are so furious with what the Labour Party are doing to Jeremy Corbyn, that many of them are considering Revolutionary Socialism. Remember, the Bolsheviks ran candidates in the state Duma, even though they knew it was a load of rubbish, and Lenin supported this. So, I think running candidates is a form of motivating the working class, because they will see it fail.

So, what type of communist are you?

I'm activist

I'm a Marxist.

5330741 I'm one of those commies that thinks stalin was an asshole.

5330741 Leninist Socialism.

Well, good to see that you have the anti-Stalinist part right, alongside some knowledge of the United State’s interventions abroad.

I would probably label myself as a Council Communist if I couldn’t simply use the term Communist. Since the worker’s council is the foundational building block to a socialist economy, I think it is important to emphasize this aspect during political introductions. I also hold a more critical view of the contributions of Lenin and Trotsky, albeit more in the sense that I don’t see the tactics of Russia in 1917 as being a blueprint for the United States (or any other country) in 2016.

As far as using the state, I would agree that we need a social democratic political party in charge that attempts to explain the world in terms of class. From there, we need to have the left-most (communist) section of that party ready to step up when the social democrats caves in to pressure or flat out abandons its class. With the elections coming up, I’m taking that first step by voting for Jill Stein of the Green Party (7% nationally in a recent CNN poll, pretty good at this point considering her competition and the fact that Socialist Debs in 1912 got 6% of the national vote) to get that social democratic party in place.

5332739 My view on how revolution would take place is if social democracy builds up a working class movement and a social movement, and is then defeated by capitalist forces. We need another miners strike, except one which we'll win.

I think a lot of potential here in Britain is the Momentum movement. Trade unionists are getting much more active than they were in the centrist Blair years (Mass murdering war criminal), just take the junior doctors strike. The Momentum movement is a social democratic movement, however I believe they are still mobilizing the working class. It is a strong movement, and if Corbyn fails I don't think it will go away, but become more revolutionary. Of course, I want Corbyn to win, he is a principled, honest, politician and it will create an absolute uproar when he inevitably fails to bring permanent, radical, social change.

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