Some tagline worthy stuff in here,
purpose of Leninism as establishing Communism in Russia
According to him[Lenin], socialism was simply too complicated for the average worker to understand and therefore class consciousness could only come from the educated intelligentsia.
Lenin’s vanguard party would be made up of socialist intellectuals that would bring on the revolution even if the workers did not want it and if Russia was not ready for it according to orthodox Marxism.
Before anyone accuses me of being a fervent Communist, I still do think that the triumph of the Bolsheviks was a great tragedy that broke Russia in more ways than one, and she still has not recovered.
besides the Bolsheviks, are the sons of liberty in the American Revolution, the Bonapartists in the French one, the SPD in the early Weimar Republic and the NSDAP in the late, and finally modern Progressivism is also a Vanguardist movement.
The socialists relied on the workers who have had enough of capitalism, while Trump, the AfD, the FN, etc. Relies on millions of voters coming out to vote because they have had enough of inflation, immigration, and “wokeness“.
without a complex ideology, the movement will only attract naïve commoners who are genuinely devoted to the cause, and clever opportunist politicians and grifters who see an opportunity, but do not believe in the movement.
Therefore, I propose the application of Vanguardist principles, of Leninist principles, to the modern right wing.
This is reminding me of Parenti - to put his conclusions in my own words, Fascism is when the revolutionary rhetoric developed by the Left-Wing (whether that is Socialists or Communists or Left-Liberals) is used to advance the goals of the ruling classes instead.
So they took the most cartoonish lib propaganda version of Lenin and said “That was actually good, it just needed to be right wing.”
I’m getting psychic damage from reading this.
Substack was a mistake
I think I remember reading a few british boug with the same take 10 years ago, not really a new thing. If I recall correctly the Ukrainian fascists were reading Lenin too.
Vanguard theory, party hierarchy and a basic understanding of full time revolutionaries are all extremely valuable no matter what political ideology you come from as they can all be applied to anything.
It’s also painfully obvious that colour revolutions are inspired by vanguard theory. Honestly to turn this on its head I’ve thought for a while now that the model the US has for colour revolution ought to be deconstructed and considered as a model that can be used by anyone. It’s the closest thing to a working model for revolution in developed countries. Just because the CIA came up with it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work for us.
We, at the Court’s Sense, do not condone nor recommend requisitioning grain at gunpoint, shooting one’s political opponents in the back of the head, or giving them a tenner in Solovki, neither are we communists for that matter.
