Marxism-Leninism is a set of ideas that holds up even in the modern day, but I have personally lost faith that the masses of the United States can achieve such a system partially due to their own resistance but also because they are too individualistic and misinformed to produce good results as long as the United States has a democratic system of government where every citizen has a say. Congress and the US government has elected officials that are anti-vaxers, flat earthers, anti-science or generally pro-Israel zionist cultists. I believe in a non-democratic approach where experts will be consulted for policy decisions and the masses can be protected from all the political decisions they support.
Obviously, this makes me unqualified to be the leader of Marxist-Leninist communities since a technocracy is a markedly different ideological strain. I have not abandoned Marxism or revolutionary thought, but it is time for me to retire as the leader of the communities I currently manage. I hope some comrades will research this new ideology that I consider to be especially applicable to a society such as the United States, and which can create a form of socialism and scientific government even in the midst of a generally reactionary and non-cooperative primitive society that would not be able to benefit from socialism otherwise.
The problem is that “technocracy” does directly leads to these same problems. The issue with technocracy isn’t that people should have to be qualified or know what they are talking about, but that they come from a privileged class and will side with their class interests. The proliferation of fascism and anti-science politicians is not due to democracy, but the lack thereof. It is from the nominal left parties trying to be the polite, lesser evil, in response to their opponents. The more mask off fascist parties appeal only to the petite bourgeois and the nominal progressive party appeal to the professionals (a.k.a. technocrats) so that they can have a roughly equal voting base while supporting the same right wing policies, since the professionals just want mask-on fascism. This allows the “progressive” parties to take the same corporate sponsors, while trying to appear better than the right-wing parties. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is due to the lack of an alternate narrative as to why everything is getting worse and no problems are actually addressed by our politicians.
My idea of technocracy is a one-party state with experts giving them data to make policy decisions and not necessarily the experts themselves being in charge. I also am going at this from a Marxist perspective so I imagine the end result of such a system to be somewhat similar to modern China.
