I Think A Thing The Left Needs Less Of

Is religious devotion to untested methods.  The goal is more important than how we get there.

If anarcho-syndicalism gets us to a reduction of suffering, great, if Marxism does that, great, if Marxism-Leninism gets us there, if anarcho-communism gets us there, if Trotskyism gets us there, great great great, but what’s important is people not starving and being happy.

That’s literally it.

Oh and combating fascism.

Like I think we need to not be sure our faction is the ONE TRUE WAY TM, while cooperating to eliminate capitalism.  Absolute certainty in one’s methods leads to shit like Stalin and the disastrous end of the Spanish revolution.

All I want is for the world to be a kinder, happier place.  Theoretical rectitude matters nothing to me 

Like I’m not an economist, I’m not a political scientist and it seems like none of them agree with each other anyway, and so I don’t know which way gets us there, but we don’t have a map and so we need to explore the forest in order to find paradise.

I may have my pet theories, cobbled together from what I like from various people, but I am absolutely not sure of anything but the unquestionable need to eliminate capitalism

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