The best thing about “tankies” right now is there really isn’t a singular marxist-leninist figurehead. Let’s say, I don’t know, Richard wolff was in the files? Our entire ideology isn’t tied to one old white dude so it wouldn’t matter much.
I was trying to think of an old man Marxist professor analogous to noam Chomsky. He is pretty frequently on Brian beckers show “the socialist program” and isn’t becker on the PSL central committee?
Becker is one of the founders of PSL when they split from WWP. It’s difficult to pinpoint Wolf’s exact ideology, because he seems to present some co-op road to Socialism to a mostly America audience… He did call Mao a great Revolutionary, and seems to have a positive view of modern China.
Our entire ideology isn’t tied to one old white dude
Just because Marx and Lenin are dead doesn’t make them not two old white dudes (with the caveat that alot of tankies love Mao who only met 2 of 3 of those criteria)
WRT Marx specifically, most modern Marxist-Leninists subscribe to a pretty different (more advanced) view on colonialism and the national question that were developed later by African and Asian Marxists like Ho Chi Minh, Fanon, Said, and Nkrumah. The criticism of Marx’s eurocentrism has been laid out for a long time and if you find MLs that still subscribe to the exact things Marx laid out in his work with regards to the global south, they’re probably people who are stuck in the 19th century and aren’t reading more modern theory.
Just because the origins are with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, does not mean that they aren’t continued on by Fanon, Rodney, Mao, Nkrumah, Guevara, Sankara, and more to the modern day.
The best thing about “tankies” right now is there really isn’t a singular marxist-leninist figurehead. Let’s say, I don’t know, Richard wolff was in the files? Our entire ideology isn’t tied to one old white dude so it wouldn’t matter much.
Dick wolff is nowhere near an ML lol
I was trying to think of an old man Marxist professor analogous to noam Chomsky. He is pretty frequently on Brian beckers show “the socialist program” and isn’t becker on the PSL central committee?
Becker is one of the founders of PSL when they split from WWP. It’s difficult to pinpoint Wolf’s exact ideology, because he seems to present some co-op road to Socialism to a mostly America audience… He did call Mao a great Revolutionary, and seems to have a positive view of modern China.
Just because Marx and Lenin are dead doesn’t make them not two old white dudes (with the caveat that alot of tankies love Mao who only met 2 of 3 of those criteria)
Well, they weren’t in the Epstein files at least.
WRT Marx specifically, most modern Marxist-Leninists subscribe to a pretty different (more advanced) view on colonialism and the national question that were developed later by African and Asian Marxists like Ho Chi Minh, Fanon, Said, and Nkrumah. The criticism of Marx’s eurocentrism has been laid out for a long time and if you find MLs that still subscribe to the exact things Marx laid out in his work with regards to the global south, they’re probably people who are stuck in the 19th century and aren’t reading more modern theory.
Just because the origins are with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, does not mean that they aren’t continued on by Fanon, Rodney, Mao, Nkrumah, Guevara, Sankara, and more to the modern day.