my socialist views are a cross between market socialism, welfare statism, left-libertarianism, georgism, pluralism and marxism as well. it’s a bit contradictory.
how i’d explain elements of my socialist views:
market socialism: social ownership of the means of production through a market economy
welfare state: the state helps protect the health, and economic and social well-being of citizens
left-libertarianism: all hierarchies would be questioned and abolished, and a state would be downsized for the good of the people, and for the purposes of the courts, military, horizontal administration and welfare. the police is left out because the police is a coercive tool that claims to be for ‘law enforcement’ that must be reformed completely.
marxism: most private ownership is abolished, land become publicized/collectivized/nationalized from landowners, but…
georgism: the state gets the land value tax paid for by the people. no rent, just tax.
de leonism: the parties work with the unions
pluralism: multiple parties can still participate, as long as the parties follow different forms of socialism/communism (like leninism, de leonism, councilism, liberal socialism, trotskyism, but NOT National Bolshevism), unified under a vanguard coalition, led by the leading communist party which acts as the primary social institution. i also think democratic centralism (which includes open debates before unified voting) would apply.
i welcome any and all constructive criticism. if you have any resources on marxism-leninism, please let me know. seriously!
As I’ve said before, these views are often entirely contradictory and appear to be more of a mish-mash of whatever you think sounds good without care for understanding if they can work together. Marxism itself already understands that systems change over time, as a result of conttadictions, while you treat this more as a system to work towards itself in the end. You would do well to study more, rather than try to make a hodge-podge mish-mash of ideologies.
I’ve linked this before, but here’s my Marxist-Leninist intro reading list.
do you have any tips for people who lose focus quickly? should i record myself reading something on socialism (ie: “what is to be done” by vladimir lenin)?
Focus isn’t the thing that helps. It’s iteration.
You are raised in a conceptual framework that predisposes you to think about new things in specific ways. To get a more accurate worldview, you need more iterations, you need to explore new experiences, you need to see the same things presented in slightly different ways.
Above all else, though, you need to make posts and comments like this, and you need to have live conversations where you express your current understanding and you need to receive feedback. Sometimes you’re wrong, sometimes your omitting something, sometimes you have a good grip on it. You can’t just focus and read and hope to have correct understanding. These things are not dead concepts that can pinned to the pages of a book - they are living dynamic understandings generated through dialogue.l
Above all else, though, you need to make posts and comments like this, and you need to have live conversations where you express your current understanding and you need to receive feedback. Sometimes you’re wrong, sometimes your omitting something, sometimes you have a good grip on it. You can’t just focus and read and hope to have correct understanding. These things are not dead concepts that can pinned to the pages of a book - they are living dynamic understandings generated through dialogue.l
are you saying that i still comment the way i do?
Keep commenting, keep getting critique, listen learn and grow
Just summarize what you just read in a sentence or two every few paragraphs in a note app of your choice. I have ADHD, and that works for me. There’s also Krupskaya’s General Rules for Independent Study.
