11.25.09
Chavez’ notion
Venezuela’s Chavez Calls for International Organisation of Left Parties
Published on November 23rd 2009, by Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
This is an idea that has to be taken seriously, but unfortunately, just at the moment where something is needed nothing is really available save the same old bullshit, bad history, and the tired slogans of closet Stalinists hoping for the worst to maybe foment their limp leftism.
People need help, confronted with the globalization juggernaut. But the old left is in the way.
Since the Third International was Lenin’s bag, the Fourth Trotsky’s, the fifth will have to be something beyond both!!!
Note this point.
Instead we have the same recycled crap from the likes of Slavoj Zizek, whose open embrace of Stalinism is just the kind of well-written pastiche that will confuse and divide any fifth international. There is no going back to Leninism, but another generation will not face this fact. In reality, there is no going back even to Marx. We need a whole new set of concepts. But that is hard to come by!
I would say, however, that Zizek is naively open, and blows the whistle on the left unwittingly. No real revolutionary conspirator would write any the books he has written, which do the job of discrediting the old left better than anyone on the right.
Chavez means well, but what does he have to propose? Old boy slaps on the back with Fidel Castro?
We need a thorough critique of Leninism, with accurate history, a critique of Marx, a new take on the Hegelian starting point that ended by confusing the whole subject. Hegel needs to be understood, and critiqued, so the myth of dialectic doesn’t take another set of revolutionary idiots.
How many on the left who idolize Lenin have really read a history of what he did?
It is impossible to think the followers of such a man can create a socialist reality.
There are endless things to consider here, but the current left is worse than a waste of time: they are deadly to any kind of leftist future that is real.
Let us recall that Lenin exterminated virtually the whole left of Socialist Revolutionaries as whooly idealists. I almost say, OK, eliminate the whole generation on the left now, so we can start over.
It is important to grasp that Lenin was the chief Asshole of the Haute Bourgeoisie, and NOT a leader of the working class. Bolshevism was another bourgeois trick against labor.
Jacob Richter said,
March 17, 2010 at 10:28 pm
The First International was actually called the International Workingmen’s Association for a reason.
The Second International was a mass organization.
Point your blame on the Identity Politics “New Left” (including many First World Maoists and Trotskyists), not on the “Old Left” emphasizing class politics.