ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ on Nostr: so I've just spent the last however long reading about left-communism and generally ...

so I've just spent the last however long reading about left-communism and generally the history of the New Economic Policy, and generally diving into just what all this schism was even about. Here's my takeaway:

There are always going to be differences in tactics and strategies in how we approach the project of building socialism, and also, we really shouldn't let the rifts formed by extremely dead europeans over the tactics and specific policies over extremely dissolved nations define us today. the discourse seems, frankly, bad. Thankfully, it seems that the frankly abysmal discourse surrounding this doesn't seem to be present in the leftist communities to which I have found myself, including this network on fedi.

It is factionalist disputes like these which is why I just call myself a communist, or even a socialist in some company, because getting more specific stinks of a certain, almost protestant sort of denominationalism over things we really can bridge the gap about. hell, I can even reach across the aisle and shake hands with anarchists and call them comrades. Lenin was pragmatic, we must be pragmatic. we get so caught up in looking backwards that we forget to look forwards, to envision a new socialist future. we cannot lose sight of that, even as understanding the history of the imperialism and of previous revolutions is paramount. As zorotl has said, "I am with whatever revolution educates the kids."