By: Anarcho

Anarcho
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:25:21 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Simply confirming my point...

You know, for a group that has yet to realize its own model of communism, whatever the warts, you might be less cocksure.

You mean Marxists? Where have they realised their model of communism? They have created various party-dictatorship state-capitalist regimes but those were not the free, democratic, socialist regimes promised by the theory... So in terms of be "less cocksure", I think that applies to Marxists....

I am still waiting for this bottom up vision of socialism where no political action is necessary.

Perhaps because most socialists believed in Marxism and organised in a top-down way using political action? As the last 150 years have shown, this does not work -- but sadly Marxists seem to want to keep doing it, presumably in the hope that this time it will be different....

I know that anarchism has not been created (although there have been various close tries). I also know that Marxism has been tried. Social Democracy became as reformist as we predicted. Leninism became the dictatorship over the proletariat as we predicted. Still, let us not dwell on those awkward facts...

In short, this comment just confirms the point of my review.... Perhaps if socialists looked at the actual consequences of Marxism they would be more willing to try another approach? A theory which accurately predicted the failings of Marxism would be, surely, the first place to look?