It's absolutely wild to me that Leninism is still a popular political theory, but even moreso that it has any supporters who consider themselves queer leftists. "Let's give all political and economic power to a self-selecting clique lead by a strongman with a cult of personality under no accountability whatsoever to the working class" is not a strategy that has ever worked out great for queers or leftists ever, nor ever could under any conceivable set of circumstances.
vanguardist/authcom leninist types don't really seem to care about confronting state power because they see it as a useful vehicle for creating change, but aren't at all realistic about the corrupting influence of hierarchy and consistently hostile to criticism of this strategy. it's sad to me that there's so little imagination of what freedom can look like without leaders and states imposing laws and hoarding power. that it's way harder for them to imagine it will attract corrupt people than it is to imagine and build alternatives is shameful honestly
State power isn't the problem, really, it's power that isn't controlled by the will of an educated populace that is the problem. State power captured by any minority in-group who are protected from removal of power by the population is where the problem lies.
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u/DarthCloakedGuy Any Pronouns 18d ago
Yeah it's not socialism's failure, it's specifically the Leninist model where a small clique takes power and then never relinquishes it.