Message from @Blebleh

Discord ID: 316002370700050432


2017-05-21 23:49:30 UTC  

a prole can be an agent of the bourgeoisie, declasé

2017-05-21 23:50:35 UTC  

we can set up theoretical unity in the platform agreeing on revolutionary themes

2017-05-21 23:50:52 UTC  

no reformism allowed

2017-05-21 23:51:22 UTC  

but we have to attract the people there, revolution is done by the masses not by a few

2017-05-21 23:51:56 UTC  

Sure, you can talk about it. It seems all they do. This is a great inefficiency. The masses cannot, by definition, lead themselves.

2017-05-21 23:52:54 UTC  

lenin wasn't a blanquist doing a coup d'etat

2017-05-21 23:53:12 UTC  

he has to work with the masses, the party had

2017-05-21 23:53:37 UTC  

the platform can lead them

2017-05-21 23:54:07 UTC  

The platform, you mean like as an authority?

2017-05-21 23:55:27 UTC  

I wouldn't call it an authority

2017-05-21 23:55:40 UTC  

I disagree with Engels in that a revolution is the most authoritarian thing

2017-05-21 23:56:05 UTC  

because they're the original authoritarians, not us; and we're just liberating ourselves from their state

2017-05-21 23:57:00 UTC  

That's cute semantics, but if your platform is not arrived at through direct democracy and consultation of every single individual it represents, it is authoritarian.

2017-05-21 23:58:09 UTC  

I think there are some people that don't have the time to be in the platform or unions; but we can get massive support through the unions

2017-05-21 23:58:24 UTC  

some anarchists call this semilibertarianism

2017-05-21 23:58:28 UTC  

or anarcho-leninism

2017-05-21 23:59:00 UTC  

Is this something you support?

2017-05-21 23:59:09 UTC  

yes

2017-05-22 00:00:08 UTC  

I also could support a party as an extension

2017-05-22 00:00:11 UTC  

Then our positions are not so different. You want a 'representative' Party based on consensus, I see a better alternative based on competency.

2017-05-22 00:00:36 UTC  

the platform is independent from the party

2017-05-22 00:00:42 UTC  

parties are hierarchic

2017-05-22 00:01:30 UTC  

I think you are deluding yourself. If the platform is arrived at via a minority of representatives, then there is a hierarchy.

2017-05-22 00:01:56 UTC  

I don't think they should arrive with a minority of representatives

2017-05-22 00:02:25 UTC  

it's just for promoting ideas or getting the ground prepared

2017-05-22 00:02:56 UTC  

You just said that people don't have time to be in the platform?

2017-05-22 00:03:24 UTC  

Who decides the ideas?

2017-05-22 00:03:25 UTC  

I said that not all

2017-05-22 00:03:35 UTC  

but it can be massive

2017-05-22 00:04:09 UTC  

Not unless every individual has equal intellect and involved. Practically it is not massive in content.

2017-05-22 00:04:10 UTC  

we'd have to select texts from bakunin, marx, etc.

2017-05-22 00:04:41 UTC  

Basically you just want 'consent'.

2017-05-22 00:04:43 UTC  

@Deleted User It can with the unions

2017-05-22 00:05:08 UTC  

the unions are revolutionary in that they explain the ideology

2017-05-22 00:05:12 UTC  

appart from getting improvements

2017-05-22 00:05:27 UTC  

otherwise they can't be revolutionary, they have a final objective

2017-05-22 00:07:32 UTC  

My objection is that not all union members have an active role. Basically you give them the memo and then they just sign off on it. That is your idea of non-hierarchy, which is pretty deceptive.

2017-05-22 00:09:02 UTC  

Yes they have an active role

2017-05-22 00:09:10 UTC  

How so?

2017-05-22 00:09:15 UTC  

By holding your banner?

2017-05-22 00:09:25 UTC  

Unions are based in direct action