Posted by nipaucapitalista on April 09, 2003 at 12:57:36:
Dear All,
Sorry for my english, it is not good enough to express
my thoughts but I want to try. I may describe myself as a "marxist-leninist" (leninist especially bc I used to believe in the "leninist method"/centralism and a transitionary stage through communism ). I have read a lot of "marxsist literature" avoiding works of stalin, mao and anarchist literature:) As time passed I started to think over an over about the "utopia"(some say it is communism-I prefer to say that another world is possible of which we do not know much now) rather than how to reach that "utopia".It seems strange to me that everbody discusses "how to make revolution " but virtually no one writes/discusses about utopia= how the world would look like after "capitalism".It seems to me that We(leninists-trotskiests-anarchists etc) all agree that it is a must to take the "power" from the hands of capitalists-that as in the slogan "one solution revolution:) What will happen afterwords is the point where everbody stays apart. Will there be a transitionary stage?(democratic dictatorship of proletariat?/socialism?). What is the "economy" of communism/utopia? (Some may say that looking bacwards from your utopia would determine the method that you use to make revolution-i agree to some extent) I have just read Orwell's Animal Farm. I should confess that I was really sorry for not reading it before. It is a wonderfull reading/"intellectual" experience. I was thinking how would be the version of "the animal farm" in which animals could have kicked napoleon and make another revolution in a revolution? Could it possible to establish the "dream" without the "authority". Have anybody tried to rewrite
the story of revolution with snowball? without napoleon? Or better a version without the "pigs" end up having "the power"? What would be your story of revolution? What would be your utopia?
best
p.s No a las guerras capitalistas! Fight capitalist war Fight Capitalist Peace!