A Principled, Foundational Difference
I have a principled, foundational difference with many Marxist-Leninists and their individual parties on how to apply dialectical materialism. It may be immoderate or inordinate but it is honest and sincere, regardless of who disagrees with it.
“To decolonize our understanding of sovereignty would be moving back to collective rights, moving back to ideas of nationhood that aren’t based on exclusivity, but are based on mutuality and reciprocity.” - Nick Estes, The Red Nation
From my 46 years of lived experience watching endless division (nations, tribes, identities, genders, classes, religions) create constant conflict over land, resources, historic grievances, productive forces that sustain grievances, social status, and power, I see division itself as the core material problem, and class hierarchy is just a byproduct of it. My understanding is that the correct dialectical step is to tear down capitalism and imperialism and immediately build collective oneness: one Earthling/human collective with obligatory shared stewardship of the planet, equal access, equal say, and equal responsibility; complete equitable-egalitarianism under democratic centralism.
"And the more alienated people are, the easier it is to divide them and keep them divided. These focalized forms of action, by intensifying the focalized way of life of the oppressed (especially in rural areas), hamper the oppressed from perceiving reality critically and keep them isolated from the problems of oppressed women and men in other areas."
We must help everyone equitably and simultaneously, fixing concrete needs (clean water, food, housing, medical care) wherever they exist, without prioritizing any sect, group, or "legacy," because any recognition of separate groups or legacies perpetuates the very divisions we need to overcome.
"In all your acts, self interest shall be cast away. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people, and have always in view not only the present, but of the coming generations." - The Haudenosaunee Confederacy
This conclusion comes from my environment, my direct experiences, and intensive study: I've read 52 books of theory (including many classics and recommended ML texts), plus absorbed a wide range of communist, humanist, and indigenous sources.
"The real education of the masses can never be separated from their independent political, and especially revolutionary, struggle. Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will." - V.I. Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
I treat my philosophical-ideological views as a secular-political faith, a coherent worldview I live by. Because of this different interpretation of theory, materialism, and lived reality, I often stand as an outsider to organized ML groups. It's not because I'm unread or unserious; it's because my synthesis leads me in a different direction.
As a neurodivergent person, I process information and connect ideas in my own way, and I treat that as a strength, it allows me to see the drive toward oneness with particular clarity and consistency. My cognitive processing abilities are not a flaw due because my neurodivergences keep them from agreeing with the concensus. Two things I say about concensus is it can be wrong, as the concensus once thought the world was flat. And the concensus can be disagreed with, if the author leaves things to interpretation instead of making sure there could be no differences of opinion on what they said or meant; i believe that is called death of an author. I pull from all branches of the ML tree and if other near by plants have aspects that make sense where communist theory leaves holes, I graft it to the ML tree. So call me a purist, call me orthodox, a gatekeeper, heterodox, a synth or deviant Marxist-Leninist.
And to anyone who comes at me for any of the quotes I used due to the people I quoted's position, then those people talked out both sides of their mouths.
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