F_State ( F_State@midwest.social ) to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agoWorkers and the Vanguard have different class interestsmidwest.socialimagemessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up195
arrow-up195imageWorkers and the Vanguard have different class interestsmidwest.socialF_State ( F_State@midwest.social ) to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square44linkfedilink
minus-squareflora_explora ( flora_explora@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoHm, so if you don’t want to use the term vanguard anymore, how are you going to talk about the seizing of power by a small authoritarian group during a revolution? And what would be your solution to prevent this from happening?
minus-squareSpookyBogMonster ( SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoSo what you’re describing is a concept called Blanquism, which predates the concept of a vanguard party.
minus-squarenovibe ( novibe@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThat doesn’t happen though. What we saw were rightwing counterrevolutionaries taking over the USSR, China etc. But historically it’s a great mischaracterization of all socialist revolutions to say they were “overtaken by authoritarians”. All revolutions are “authoritarian”.
Hm, so if you don’t want to use the term vanguard anymore, how are you going to talk about the seizing of power by a small authoritarian group during a revolution? And what would be your solution to prevent this from happening?
So what you’re describing is a concept called Blanquism, which predates the concept of a vanguard party.
That doesn’t happen though. What we saw were rightwing counterrevolutionaries taking over the USSR, China etc.
But historically it’s a great mischaracterization of all socialist revolutions to say they were “overtaken by authoritarians”.
All revolutions are “authoritarian”.