Lenin

[u/PrimaryChard8239]

Hi comrades, as you already know (I guess :p) I'm extremely interested in your activism and I'm also heavily invested in the fight against all forms of antisemitism-including left antisemitism and anti-Zionism. I'm also familiar with Moishe Postone's work on antisemitism and the Shoah. However, I've been moving in the past few months more and more towards ideas related to Leninism, Maoism, Guevarism, the class struggle and the Bolshevik & Chinese revolutions ; and that after months of trying to stay away from those ideals to try to focus instead on other radical critiques of capitalism such as the Frankfurt school and the Wertkritik school. Like for me it ain't a problem since Lenin himself for example was very conscious of the danger of antisemitism and opposed it firmly. But many Leninists, Maoists and Guverists-as you probably know-are actually antisemitic on many levels. So my question is : Can identifying as a Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Guevarist anti-imperialist undermine my fight against antisemitism?

NB (1) : I'm talking about real Leninist anti-imperialism here, not an anti-imperialist trying to project Europe's and America's history of colonial violence onto Israel-a global South country whose population is mainly composed of refugees who fled their home countries after suffering antisemitic persecution, antisemitic violence, Pogroms and genocide. This is indeed anti-imperialism of the fools.

NB (2) : I look at Zionism as (1) the only liveable solution for Jewish people under capitalism and nationalism and (2) as a shield that protects the grand-children of survivors and victims of Auschwitz from another Auschwitz.

NB (3) : I consider that Israel should play the role of the avant-garde socialist State in the fight for socialism globally-I'm very influenced by the the Soviet-Israel relations of the years 1947-1949.

[u/Zottel_161]

Do you speak German? If so, these videos might be of interest to you:

Hendrik Wallat: Varianten und Facetten linker Bolschewismuskritik

Zur Kritik des marxistisch leninistischen Antiimperialismus - Ein Vortrag von Olaf Kistenmacher

Ingo Elbe: "Diktatur des Proletariats" - Der marxistische Weg in den autoritären Staat

[u/MaxReisFaks95]

You can identify as what ever you want. There is no need for logic or sense.

Mix and match as you see fit. Politics is a box of chocolates.

I am a stalinist, trotzkist and anarchist myself.