“The MST politics are democratic socialist revolutionary, understood from the centrality of class as a motor of history. Rather than describing itself as “Marxist”, it prefers the term “Dialectical Materialist”, feeling the term “Marxist” to have been narrowed by history to represent a single set of views on socialism and class-based revolutionary struggle.
As a multi-tendency organization, with a culture of debate and ideological discussion, there are people within its membership and leadership who visualize themselves as anarchists, Anti-Revisionists, communists, democratic socialists, Maoists, revolutionary socialists, syndicalists, and Trotskyists.
What they do have in common is a commitment to revolutionary action, and to worker’s self-emancipation, which leads to a belief that differences in opinion are a positive feature in a revolutionary organization.”
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in a hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
I’ve been reading a lot more non-tumblr blogs lately and it’s refreshing.
Tumblr is an echo-chamber of every perspective
ie: most tumblr libertarians sound the same, most tumblr socialists sound the same, etc…
People on the internet give many more varied and interesting points of view.
I highly recommend reading mostly non-tumblr blogs.
I’d start with the list that’s on the bottom right of Crookedtimber. By clicking more links on each site you’ll find even more cool blogs.
Tumblr is totally an echo chamber. Reminds me of the LJ days, but short-form makes the politics even lazier.
In case anyone cares about my recs: