Notebook

Since it is difficult for me to keep track of all of the articles I want to keep around to take notes on, and since the favorites list is unwieldly, this seems to be a good place to store various information. Feel free to use this group to store your own notes as well

Orthodox Marxism

For those with talent in anti-revisionist Marxist-Kautskyist Wizardry

Revisionist-Traitor-Faux Leftists

A group for all of the anarcho-Trotskyite-fascist conspirators out there.

Ultra Adventurists

A torch light safari of fun

California Comrades

A group in which discussion of themes pertinent to California leftism is prevalent.

Punky revolutionaires

Hey if metalheads have their group, so do we. Any fans of punk, proto-punk, post-punk and whatever else comes close to punk can join.

Democratic Centralist

A broad tendency group as well as group for discussion of democratic centralist organizational structures and methods. For Leninists, left communists, and any other communists who believe in a vanguard (or otherwise political) party democratically run and operated by the membership of the party in which all administrative and representative positions are elected from top to bottom. Through putting each or most party policies to a plebiscite or referendum vote among the party electorate, the will of the majority of the party is represented and carried out. The task of a democratic centralist organizational structure is to achieve, as Lenin put it, "freedom of discussion, unity of action." This means that we work toward achieving the highest democratic standard of decision making possible while also maintaining a standard of unity within the party. We understand that, while we may disagree with the specifics, not every organization that has ever called itself a democratic...

Noam Chomsky

A group to praise and critique Chomsky's theories and works.

The situation in Portugal

Wellcome, comrade, to the Portugal group! This is where the Portugal thread is hosted, and is where news about Portugal will be posted.,

Marxist-Leninist-Maoist

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, as based mainly on the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Iosef Stalin and Mao Zedong, is the highest qualitative stage of Marxism so far and is the guiding ideology of revolutionaries the world over who carry forward the fight for a world free of all class distinctions, all exploitative production relations, all oppressive social relations, and all corresponding, reactionary ideas - the communist world of the future. Basic Marxist-Leninist principles were implemented successfully, though with shortcomings, in the Soviet Union during the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, but it was the experience of socialist construction and the 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution' in the People's Republic of China under Mao however that heralded 'Mao Tse-Tung Thought' and later 'Maoism' as a new qualitative advancement of Marxism-Leninism. Key principles of Maoism include: 1. The people's war strategy, i.e. a strategy of mass-based guerilla war...

Facial fuzz

For those of us that have fungus growing outta our faces. Beard,mustaches and sideburns all are welcome.

nihilist communism

We think revolutionary expertise, which bases itself in organizational certainty and theoretical rigidity, measures only pro-revolutionary fabrication, it has but one relation to actual social conditions, which is that it is wholly unable to escape its determinations. Predictions for the future are hypothesized out of past happenings mistake the very nature of revolution, which we all agree is an event that is precisely not conditioned by the past and is characterized as a complete transformation of humans existence out of the economic mode. If we cannot recognize the future in the present then we cannot decide which pro-revolutionary activity or value of the present should be promoted or carried through to the future. It is our contention that most pro-revolutionary activity extends existing conditions and acts to prevent the future. We think many pro-revolutionary rather enjoy the antagonism of capitalist society and the part they place by supporting a 'side'. We cannot say for...

Scotch

For those alone at night, drinking the only truly revolutionary alcohol and violently stamping out their cigarette butts in their ashtrays.

G.V. Plekhanov Literati

In imitation of the Bordiga, Lenin and Kautsky Literati groups, this comrade has found it appropriate to create a group devoted to in-depth study of the political and philosophical writings of G. V. Plekhanov, the Russian Marxist who founded the Emancipation of Labour Group which laid the "theoretical foundations"(Lenin) of the Russian Marxist movement and "took the first step towards"(Lenin) a working-class movement in Russia and played a prominent role in representing the Russian Marxists in the Second International and vigorously fought against Economism and liquidationism, "two different forms of the same petty-bourgeois, intellectualist opportunism"(Lenin) in the RSDLP.

In-Depth Discussion on the DOTP

This group is for those wanting a in-depth discussion on the idea of the "dictatorship of the proletarian" and what it means for different circumstances. All tendencies are welcome.

Monterey Bay Comrades, California

For those living in the Monterrey Bay Area to connect and keep updated on organizations and events.

Smokers

A group for smokers to discuss the badassery and joy of smoking tobacco.

Insurrectionists

For all those who enjoy the blazing cocktail parties at Molli's. Welcoming all Insurrectionary Anarchists, Insurrectionary Communists, and the like, as well as people in support of or interested in debating Insurrection, Direct Action, Sabotage, Militancy, Clandestineness, Armed Resistance, Urban Guerrillas, and all other things non-reconcilable.

People's War

Protracted People's War (for short People's War or PPW) is a communist military doctrine first theorized by Mao Tse-tung for mobilizing the masses and seizing state power. Contrasted with the several "insurrectionary" strategies which view the revolution as one defining moment, People's War doctrine takes a gradual approach of obtaining several military and political victories, establishing base areas, and, at every important conjuncture, accumulating those forces with the most advanced consciousness into communist ranks. The three defining stages of development in the course of People's War are: (1) Strategic defensive -- where communist fighters are mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare whereas state forces are on the offensive; (2) Strategic equilibrium -- the People's Army can take state forces head on and on a more equal basis; (3) Strategic offensive -- where the People's Army has the advantage and the state forces are on the defensive.

Rev-Left Study Guide Project

This is the official usergroup for all members who wish to collaborate on creating a series of study guides for vital revolutionary texts, events, figures, and theory. All tendencies are welcome.