Communism
Discussion Community for fellow Marxist-Leninists and other Marxists.
Rules for /c/communism
Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.
- No non-marxists
This subreddit is here to facilitate discussion between marxists.
There are other communities aimed at helping along new communists. This community isn't here to convert naysayers to marxism.
If you are a member of the police, armed forces, or any other part of the repressive state apparatus of capitalist nations, you will be banned.
- No oppressive language
Do not attempt to justify your use of oppressive language.
Doing this will almost assuredly result in a ban. Accept the criticism in a principled manner, edit your post or comment accordingly, and move on, learning from your mistake.
We believe that speech, like everything else, has a class character, and that some speech can be oppressive. This is why speech that is patriarchal, white supremacist, cissupremacist, homophobic, ableist, or otherwise oppressive is banned.
TERF is not a slur.
- No low quality or off-topic posts
Posts that are low-effort or otherwise irrelevant will be removed.
This is not a place to engage in meta-drama or discuss random reactionaries on lemmy or anywhere else.
This includes memes and circlejerking.
This includes most images, such as random books or memorabilia you found.
We ask that amerikan posters refrain from posting about US bourgeois politics. The rest of the world really doesn’t care that much.
- No basic questions about marxism
Posts asking entry-level questions will be removed.
Questions like “What is Maoism?” or “Why do Stalinists believe what they do?” will be removed, as they are not the focus on this forum.
- No sectarianism
Marxists of all tendencies are welcome here.
Refrain from sectarianism, defined here as unprincipled criticism. Posts trash-talking a certain tendency or marxist figure will be removed. Circlejerking, throwing insults around, and other pettiness is unacceptable.
If criticisms must be made, make them in a principled manner, applying Marxist analysis.
The goal of this subreddit is the accretion of theory and knowledge and the promotion of quality discussion and criticism.
Check out ProleWiki for a communist wikipedia.
view the rest of the comments
May 1968
French government was toppled
The government wasn't toppled, they just did a snap election. That's like saying the UK government was toppled when Theresa May called one back when she couldn't Brexit.
Also, on that same election the communists lost chairs. This is nowhere close to a successful revolution.
I may have been too harsh and knee-jerky on you on my first reply, but it's seriously very important to acknowledge our past failures and self-crit in order to find the correct path to revolution. In Brazil the Communist Party split specifically because the party was ossified and the faction that left/was expelled wanted to seek better paths. There's no shame in admitting that what has been tried did not work.
They were toppled. They literally couldn't continue their careers after that. That's a victory. The Fifth Republic has existed since then.
That was a successful revolution.
A victory for a communist party is when you continue capitalism?
We're not continuing capitalism; the capitalists are.
The Fifth Republic predates the 1968 strikes by 10 years. Maybe you're mistaking that for May 1958 in which De Gaulle led a coup that actually toppled the Fourth Republic to "prevent communists" after crises caused by the Algerian War of Independence led by the FLN. That one was a successful counter revolution, though I'm open to the idea that it was a close one if evidence of that is presented. Besides all that, there's nothing to celebrate about the Fifth Republic still existing as a "victory".
But on the 1968 strikes and election, Pompidou went from Prime Minister to president, and was from the same party as de Gaulle, as was the new Prime Minister de Murville. The conservative UDR also gained seats. I may not be very knowledgeable about cold war French history, but you're really not helping your arguments with such easily debunked claims.
That was a victory. Many representatives of the working class were ushered into the new government after May 1968. That's why they had to combat the gains during the 1970s and 1980s.