Communist parties and myself have basically one area where schism seems inevitable.
Marxism and the national question: I guess this is where I disagree with most communist parties.
Marxism and the National Question: Stalin's 1913 work explains nationalism as a tool the rich use in diverse empires like old Russia to divide workers by ethnicity, masking class exploitation as fights for cultural pride, better known as sectarian politics to keep people split. He defines a nation simply as a group sharing language, land, economy, and mindset formed under capitalism, and rejects ideas like separate cultural rules for minorities because they weaken worker unity and empower reactionaries.
Instead, he pushes for self-determination, letting oppressed groups choose independence or autonomy, but always tied to the bigger class struggle, with democratic rights like equal languages and schools, so workers can unite internationally to overthrow oppression and build socialism without ethnic divisions holding them back. While he does allow for divisions, he says socialism will always side against those who wish to break up worker solidarity.
Those divisions he mentions are nothing more than identity politics, and as we see after the first quarter of the twenty-first century, if you allow identity politics you end up with division because there is no true oneness. Instead, we have people fighting over gender, sex, religion, ethnicity, nation, and a plethora of other things, including class. I have been alive for 46 years, born in 1980. What I have seen is division creates supremacy, hate, oppression, violence, war, human rights violations, and crimes against humanity. And the more humanity divides itself into new countries and territories, the worst things get. The more people divide themselves into social-sectarian groups the more supremacy, bigotry, hatred, chauvinism, and suffering takes place in our societies, division kills. It kills ideas, progress, time and yes, life.
We have people waiting for past wrongs to be fixed, and waiting to obtain power under the current capitalist systems. Who wish to succeed from not only the rule of the government but from being a citizen of the same population as the rest of the citizens. And Stalin and others say we must allow for them to do this to correct past wrongs, and only them will they natural surrender the sole power they just obtained to become one with humanity. That other groups that were done wrong must be made right under the current systems and once they've been made comfortable and elevated in their social status, will they then approve being made uncomfortable, while we build an equitable-egalitarian system for all. This is utopian and sustaining capitalism to me.
Stalin says there must be internationalism, but that can only truly exist if people accept they are part of a shared global community, adopt an international democratic centralist governing system, and accept that everyone has an obligatory stewardship to humanity and the planet. People today are so busy fighting to be their own individual away from society, their own nation away from the globe, to do their own thing regardless of how it impacts others, regardless if it's an individual or individual group; that people are not gonna naturally or willingly accept they are part of a shared global community, adopt an international democratic centralist governing system, and accept that everyone has an obligatory stewardship to humanity and the planet.
I am an activist-misanthrope. Stalin's optimism assumed proletarian victory would naturally foster oneness and solidarity. I disagree with Stalin and ask, doesn't dialectical materialism say nothing is natural and everything is a product of its environment? I also say, as soon as a communist workers party, a vanguard seizes control of a nation, they should merge immediately with other communist nations, creating a super country or union. They should not wait to unite like a liberal waiting on incremental reform. The world's problems that face us all, aren't waiting for us to unite for them to get worse but we can solve them as long as we're 196+ different nations, we need to be one people, in one communal, on one planet, with one voice.
People say I'm wrong about divisions. Tell that to Korea, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea to name a few. Divisions have brought only suffering and war. Tell it to Germany, Vietnam, and others who have had peace since reunification. Division and the consequences of it are divisions and consequences non the less.
The Soviet union was the closest we ever got to that, and it is our blueprint to eventually doing it; it just didn't go far enough, it wasn't immoderate and inordinate, but to passive for its own good, it should've never stopped advancing and growing. Their passiveness allowed for Bureaucratic ossification, Khrushchev's revisionism, and material pressure from western economic warfare. I'm not allergic to universalist philosophical-ideological views, and neither should be any other communist.
Comments
Post a Comment