There are good movies, and then there is Popeye The Slayer Man. Nothing in between for me.
procapra
joined 2 weeks ago
Hi, one of the former members of Red Spectre here.
There was a roughly 50/50 split over some interpersonal drama in the group that led to the creation of CLO, which lasted for all of 2 seconds before also dissolving. (We did keep control of all the social media accounts and Revolupedia though) In the short time we did exist as CLO, we revisited several topics, including the topic of Hoxha, and overall came to the conclusion that we had taken an ultraleft position and were attempting to correct it. Wenger then, was acting on behalf of CLO, not independently when the changes to the page on Hoxha were made. Most of the bans were people who were on the other half of the split. Nothing anymore complicated than that. As far as Statesian Bolshevik being banned, I'm sorry that it happened.
RS/CLO membership was very young, most of the membership was 17 or 18 when I joined the discord last year (some were even younger than that). They had next to no actual organizing experience. Despite this, they all wanted to try and create something around an ideology that they felt was right, and I thought some of their writing was impressive all things considered, so I stuck around and tried to help the best I could. Ultimately I think given the age of membership, a bit of "ideology shopping" as you put it is to be expected.
Wenger has always been the #1 contributor to Revolupedia, and so when CLO dissolved we voted and unanimously thought he should have it. As for the recent shift to a more Maoist perspective, well, I'm not entirely sure about it myself. It did feel somewhat sudden, but all the power to him and the rest of the site if they feel that is the best theoretical line to hold.
I won't sit here and say that I think Revolupedia is mature, consistent, or even all that reliable of a project in its current state, but I do think it has all the potential in the world to grow into one over the next several years as its editors find their footing. There are already many parts of it that show the potential, it just needs time in the oven and more contributors.
Also yes this account is somewhat new, I'm in the progress of migrating from a lemm.ee account under the same name.
no valid video. Do I have something configured wrong?
Yeah after a good bit of my own investigation, they just seem on par with any other poor country. Not something I'm going to worship, but not something I'm going to spend time complaining about either.