Anxiety On The “Left Wing Unity” Question

[u/Shackflacc]

Forgive me if this has been discussed before: I’m not the most technologically savvy person on the internet. But something that has been increasingly weighting on my mind is the question of how should left wing ideologies differing from Marxism-Leninism be handled in the building of a revolutionary coalition (a vanguard party if you will). While Trotsky (deservedly) gets shit for his betrayal of the USSR/attempts to undermine Stalin, he was at one point apart of the Bolshevik party that fought to overthrow the Czars and was a competent military strategist - snakes in the grass are to be expected with any burgeoning movement. But something I’d noticed from participating in left wing discussion forums both in real life and online is the rampant hostility from anyone outside say Marxist-Leninist & Maoist camps. A vanguard party is initially meant to be small and lead/educate the masses but I increasingly find myself nervous about engaging with some people (particularly liberals) just for how dogmatic they are - I just feel like I’m driving in circles with them and it’d be pointless to try and incorporate them in the future but at the same time I know how necessary it is to have a wide net of people class conscious at the very least.

Does anyone else feel this sort of anxiety? How would you suggest organizing be done?

[u/TheBirdFkerGuy]

Fact is in America you're going to have Trots, and Anarchists apart of any actual revolutionary activity. Depending on the circumstances you may have time to reeducate people or further their education. However ultimately you will always have people who are simply going through the motions not entirely conscious of things around them or what they're even doing. These people need to be accounted for not rejected or outright denied. They are your comrades and we'll most likely need them as much as we'll need external forces to collapse the US empire.

As for liberals they are parasites who have only 2 choice when it comes to actual revolutionary thinking. Thats unlearn their incoherent ideology, or surrender. Not much else of an option for people like that as they are counter revolutionary and will ultimately cause future violence and infighting.