No I will not be marxist leninist I'm an anarchist for these reasons and more:
[Anark - The State Is Counter Revoultionary]
Text Essay - Onion Address [1]
Text Essay - Clearweb Mirror [2]
Video Essay - YouTube [3]
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[2]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anark-the-state-is-counter-revolutionary
While your book collection here has interesting sounding titles it isnt an argument, your article says "be marxist leninist" and yet doesn't provide any reasoning that couldn't also apply to "be anarchist" - The examples you give are things anarchists talk about too.
I do agree that we need to move beyond the term leftist its needlessly confusing and is basically a negative definition things we are against rather than what we are for, and as "the left" grows the old factions are reigniting and they are not trivial differences, to paint over them with a broad brush like "anticapitalist" or "leftist" is just insulting to those of us who have deep principled opposition to eachother
@Wilson6923 They are all the same piece there's a text and video essay that just adds b roll and music and theres a URL pointing to a clear web server and an onion server with the same content
Obviously I wasn't talking about that example: China building solar and railways isn't an excuse to censor lgbt stuff or disappear or brutalise political dissidents nor to implement bedtime laws or track everyone's location in real time.
If I'm a perfectionist for not wanting to follow in the footsteps of authoritarians then so be it, I'd rather die.
@ambiguous_yelp so a Dictatorship of the Proletariat if you will?
or put another way Whole Process peoples democracy?
@Wilson6923 Centralization of the military creates power hierarchies which subverts democracy
"The party is not justified in every moment by the formal principle of a workers democracy despite temporary vacillations of the working class" - Trotsky.
If lenin was so pro people power what happened to the factory worker councils?
You sound like a capitalist marvelling at what has been created under capitalism. But the ends never justify the means. Please tell everyone how the state will "wither away"
@Wilson6923 I would turn that back at you: that hierarchies of any kind are self sustaining bc every authority needs to justify and maintain itself by any means possible in order to achieve its goals and special interests - this immediately creates a rift between those at the top and those at the bottom, it creates new class divides
@Wilson6923 Yes it has borne out. The ends don't justify the means, just because something hasn't been done doesn't make it impossible. Once marxism leninism was an idea and it battled against the stream to make it a reality, anarchism faces similar and additional cultural and institutional hurdles.
The police for example have job security under a socialist state but have no place in an anarchist society - existing methods of control schools prisons and militaries can continue their function uninterrupted under a "socialist" state
"Take away from an organ its function and either the organ dies or the function is re-established... A police force where there are no crimes to solve or criminals to apprehend, will invent both, or cease to exist" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7QVofykyA

@Wilson6923 If I need to spell out examples for you how "socialist" states have oppressed people then you are either ignorant or so dogmatic that you see these as ends justified means
But here some are anyway:
Leninist USSR | The State is Counter Revolutionary (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwU3STgBknQ
Maoist China | The State is Counter Revolutionary (Part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZYRSpSIPw

@Wilson6923 The videos are laden with examples of "socialist" state oppression. To reiterate them would be a waste of both our time when its packaged so neatly here
@Wilson6923 These youtube video parts are parts of the same essay I listed earlier and all the same words can be found on The Anarchist Library web site URL I posted above (including the onion address for the anarchist library)
I also wish they would post to PeerTube instead I think that posting to youtube actually hurts anarchism and is another form of ends justify the means thinking