Cyberleninism

Cyberleninism is the self-insert ideology of user .dotdotdotsam. It is an economically leftist, culturally revolutionary, ultramodernist, secular, civically neutral (ideally libertarian, but practically authoritarian), and very progressive ideology that synthesizes elements of Leninism and Cybercommunism. It advocates for the typical Leninist concepts of vanguardism, democratic centralism, and dialectical materialism in conjunction with cybernetic economic planning, automation, and strong developments in technology.

To add to this, Cyberleninism has a somewhat Third-Worldist approach to Marxist analysis, believing that many of the workers in the Global North are beneficiaries of a priviledged labor aristocracy. Placing anti-imperialism at the forefront, it believes that a good first step towards proletarian internationalism is the overthrow of the comprador bourgeoisie by independence movements. Because of this, Cyberleninism critically supports left-wing nationalism and proletarian patriotism, particularly of the Latin American kind due to personal reasons (user is Latin American).

To top it off, Cyberleninism advocates for the formation of a revolutionary proletarian culture with heavy belief in the ability of propaganda art. While personally favoring Constructivism and Cubo-Futurism, it understands that the specific form of art that the vanguard leading the cultural revolution will prioritize will be a democratic decision process that is subject to already existing cultural values. Taking inspiration from Aleksandr Bogdanov, it seeks to destroy the harmful, reactionary elements of the previously existing bourgeois superstructure and synthesize them with the values of the new hyperprogressive culture. In short, it seeks to utilize the positive elements of the previous culture to create a progressive culture of the future.

=Beliefs=

Technological Development
Through all of the scientific, intellectual, and industrial progress that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have afforded us, it is absolutely laughable that we, in the present day, remain with the antiquated system of capitalism. We are able to detect gravitational waves, create robotic body-parts, prove the existence of dark matter, and sequence the genome of cancer patients, yet we remain with the economic anarchy of market capitalism. This is not only outrageous and infuriating, it is also laughable. A core tenet of Cyberleninism, possibly its defining character, is that technology and the resources that it is able to produce must be used for social progress as opposed to how it is currently used in modern capitalism - that is, to simply enrich the bourgeois class.

When the conditions are right, heavy investment must be placed into the sciences. This was one of the greatest and most notable successes of the USSR, as it became possibly the 20th century's greatest intellectual powerhouse in a rapid process. In line with major investments in literary programs to educate the population, academic success must be placed as the forefront of the nation's values so as to produce scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and other intellectuals that are capable of advancing the nation and being at the forefront of technological innovation. After all, the future is engineered only by individuals who are fully capable of understanding it.

Technological developments will be utilized to expand the forces of production, enhance economic planning, program more beneficial and efficient manners of coordinating government, and possibly for experiments in genetic modification of food and reduction of carbon emissions to switch over to sustainable energy, among other things. With technology, the possibilities are endless: we, as humans, can quite literally engineer our future.

Political Economy
As the system of capitalism currently is wholly inadequate for the needs of the working class, it must be replaced with something new. To begin with, the dictatorship of the proletariat must be established, as socialism cannot be established with the blink of an eye. It will be a bit of a lengthy process, but it is the only way to do it. It is at this point that we must recall a quote from Lenin: "Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be abolished at one stroke. And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat."Industries must be nationalized, agriculture must be collectivized, and parasitic leeches such as capitalists and landlords must be removed from power, forcibly if need be. If the state of the economy is in a semi-feudal state, the DOTP must be established to smoothen the transition towards socialism.

(thank you to for making me rewrite this section lol)

On planning
To begin with, central planning is far more efficient as a method of democratic allocation than a market economy. Because the profit incentive is at the core of the market economy, commodity production is done for profit rather than utility. For this reason we see things like planned obsolescence, consumerism, and Supreme Oreos selling for $91,000 (and being sold out in hours). Many of the commodities that are produced under capitalism, although often plentiful in supply (if you're privileged enough), are generally not useful to people as the exchange-value is placed over the use-value. Under socialist economic planning, the goal is to prioritize use-values over exchange-values.

The central planning of the USSR is, although nonetheless a form of economic planning, not intended to be replicated, and neither is Allende's Chile. Both of those methods of economic management, although progressive for their time, were still confined to it; Stalin's bureaucratic planning being prior to the development of the Internet and modern technology, and Allende's cybernetic planning being reliant upon antiquated Telex machines. We live in different times, and any proposed economic system of the future should reflect that. With the democratic usage of futuristic technology being a core tenet of Cyberleninism, it must follow then, that the economic model of Cyberleninism must abide by these principles as well. Modern technology has made economic planning possible to a greater extent than ever, yet its bourgeois detractors will utilize Mises's Economic Calculation Problem against it, even though the ECP was a criticism of the antiquated Soviet model of economic planning.

On currency
Once again established by Paul Cockshott (and even Karl Marx himself), a system of non-circulating labor credits could be very beneficial under the right conditions of economic and material development. Marx takes the circulation of commodities to be the exchange of commodities for money and money for other commodities. He depicts this as C-M-C’, where C-C’ represents both a change in the form of the commodity and, as is implied by the commodity as capital, an increase in value. He sees the circulation of commodities as facilitated by the circulation of money as capital. A system of non-circulating labor vouchers could very well be the solution for this.

With non-circulating labor credits, people would be credited with hours worked rather than money at the end of the week, and payments for goods and services would also be in terms of time; essentially, you would pay for a garment that took two hours to make with two hours of your own labor-time. This is essentially a monetary system based on time rather than arbitrary currency units such as pounds, dollars, or euros, for example. Although the manner in which these labor credits can be tracked is, of course, dependent on material resources available, when the conditions are right the method in which these labor credits can be tracked will be as follows:

"Nowadays one need not think in terms of paper certificates of work done. Instead we can envisage the use of some form of labour credit card which keeps track of how much work you have done. Deductions from your social labour credit account could be made by filling in a slip, or using a direct debit terminal."

Political Journey
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Proletarian Culture (Proletkult)


Cyberleninism believes that, as a result of the changes in the base, a cultural revolution must occur in the superstructure to link the base and the superstructure - reality and ideology coming together in a form that displaces the antiquated bourgeois culture. Culture and ideology must be correspondent with material conditions; thus, a cultural revolution is necessary (not in the Maoist manner, I will explain my problems with Maoist cultural revolution in a bit)

Religion and Cultural Expression
Cyberleninism believes that one of the greatest faults of 20th century socialism was state-mandated atheism and religious purges. It believes that religion will always exist and that it cannot be forcibly removed from society, as much as one would like. Instead of destroying religious institutions, banning religious texts, and organizing atheist gangs to harm ordinary religious people, it believes in cooperation with religious institutions to promote socialist values for the religious as religions typically have many core values that are compatible with socialism (the golden rule, caring for the poor and less fortunate, love your neighbor, etc).

Proletarian Internationalism
The vitality of proletarian internationalism cannot be understated. The global working class must put aside their prejudices and their capability to recognize borders and unite as one, if socialism is to be created. Petty-bourgeois nationalist sentiment seems to have infiltrated the minds of many "patriotic socialists", and the consequences are clear seeing as they tend to support Putin's imperialism and reactionary sentiment (racism, homophobia, transphobia, "protecting the family", contempt towards women, etc). These ideas have no place in the international socialist movement, and must be greatly discouraged by all who consider themselves remotely left-wing or Marxist. The proletarians must unite as one if we are ever to see communism on the horizon.

Women's Rights
It must be noted that ever since the emergence of private property and class society, the mother right was abolished thus leading to the emergence of patriarchy in human societies. Capitalism, along with reinforcing racism, reinforces prejudice against women. They began being treated as essentially property by men, and although they are often not officially "property" in modern times, are still seen as lower than men by many men (and even some women). Socialists, communists, and Marxists of any kind must oppose this kind of reactionary bourgeois mentality, as it is rooted in class society. There are some Marxist deviationists, typically the so-called "patriotic socialists" (a pseudo-socialist, social fascist, chauvinist, and settler apologetic bourgeois strain of "Marxism-Leninism") that oppose feminism as they have their own chauvinism and misogyny intact, using distortions of Marxism to legitimize their bigotry. This brand of rightist "communism" is, in reality, more resemblant of fascism than anything else and must be strongly opposed by Marxists of any kind. The contribution of women to the current stage of civilization and society cannot be overlooked. Women, in their socially-constructed (and sexist) role as "homemakers", have arguably made greater contributions to society than even men have. However, they are often not recognized for it due to the fact that childbearing and the responsibilities of motherhood go unpaid while the traditional role of the father, that is to obtain a well-paying job to provide food and shelter for his children, is paid and therefore concretely measurable in terms of currency. The nuclear family is an artificial concept that has its origins in the emergence of class society and private property, and is one that is inherently patriarchal and discriminatory towards women, assigning them tasks that are arguably more difficult than the ones of men (tasks which, again, are unpaid).

To add to this, capitalism-induced misogyny has created a reactionary culture to support it, as that is the superstructure in support of capital - a reactionary one. Rape and sexual aggression towards women has become pervasive in bourgeois culture, leading to the overwhelming majority of women feeling unsafe by themselves at night, being catcalled and inappropriately hit on by men, and occasionally even sexually assaulted. Statistics have shown that nearly 81% of women have experienced sexual harassment of some kind; it all begins with treating women as subordinate to men, rather than actors fully capable of doing anything a man can. Reactionaries and misogynists may use "biological" or "natural" arguments to provide a rationalization of their bigotry and male chauvinism, but these arguments are in all forms misguided. Sure, it is a biological fact that men are (usually) physically stronger and bulkier than women, but these biological differences have become practically irrelevant in modern day times due to the technology that has been developed over the course of history - put simply, with modern technology, there is practically nothing that women cannot do in comparison to their male "counterparts". These differences were only relevant in primitive times where the natural division of labor existed, but in class society the social division of labor has been established thus making those biological differences an unnecessary thing to bring up when speaking of the relationship between women and men in the modern day. TLDR, read some Engels and Angela Davis.

Relationships

 * -|Self-Inserts=

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 * [[file:Iberian_commie.png]] Iberian Communism - National Communism at its finest, love it. A little too Stalin/Mao for my tastes, but I'll make an exception bc you're really nice.

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 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - Although I'm not big on furries and Stalin, me and you are very similar in various ways (especially with your pronounced Futurist influence).
 * [[File:Neolenicon.png]] Neo-Leninism - I like your style, and I do believe that some kind of neo-Leninism must emerge out of the left if we are to overpower capitalism. It can even be said that Cyberleninism is a form of Neo-Leninism. A bit too ultra/leftcom for my tastes, but other than that no complaints. But cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.
 * [[File:LeninisBasedsmall.png]] CanadianCommunist - Love what I'm seeing so far, no disagreements as of yet. However, you seem to not emphasize ultraprogressivism and revolutionary technology as much as I would like.

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 * - You're not completely terrible, but this "mixed market" reformist brand of socialism will get you nowhere, comrade. We need speed, velocity, force, and revolutionary culture, not merely welfarism. Plus, a centrist position on reform versus revolution will lead you to becoming a useful idiot of the right or the social-democrats; such is what happened to Kautsky (who you regard positively for some reason) within the SPD. I agree that *some* reforms have their place in socialism and that worker co-ops and unions can provide benefits for workers, but I see those benefits as simply temporary - revolution must always be the final solution of any attempt at socialism, because you can't win the game of liberal democracy on the rules of the bourgeoisie.
 * - I appreciate your constructive criticism of my ideology, but I fail to sincerely see how ego-communism could have much practical implementation or internal security. Without a strong state and (some) bureaucracy, how will you defend yourself from the Amerikan army? The philosophy is cool and all, but I'm more of a straightforward/realpolitic kind of person (I like the Mark Fisher influence though). It's funny because I used to be exactly like you but less intelligent; I never read Deleuze and Guattari but claimed to love them and ego-communism and would use the terms "desiring-production" and "desiring-machines" without knowing what they meant lol. Overall, I like your style, your revolutionary Marxism, and the Luxemburg-Fisher influence, but other than that, you seem to be too inspired by idealists like Max Stirner (trash philosopher imo) and Michel Foucault (postmodern thought in general just irks me). Thank you for exposing some of the issues in my ideology though.
 * [[File:MLL.png]] Libra Thought - I dislike many MLM's because they're almost as ideologically purist as "left" communists - you are no exception. Most of your page is just typical Marxist shit that I'm not in disagreement with, but your lines on AES are legitimately cringe-inducing. You describe Cuba and Vietnam as comprador capitalism which is absolutely absurd to me. Compromising on ideological principles in order to fit existing material conditions is not "revisionism", in fact, I would say it is more in line with orthodox Marxism to assess existing material conditions and conclusively adapt ideological tenets. I agree with your anti-Deng stance, as well as your criticism of the Developed Socialism era of the USSR, but other than that we do not see much common ground on socialist practice, as I see your particular line of Marxism as being unfortunately plagued with dogmatism.

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 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - I appreciate that you're at least a socialist, but you're a De-Leonist who has an idealist interpretation of Marxism. Plus you like Sorel and Nietzsche, and you might be a fascist? IMO a very concerning interpretation of Marx. Please read Blackshirts and Reds.
 * [[File:PosadasComrade.png]] PosadasComrade - Unironic Posadist???? And an anarchist?? And a Trot??? Come on dude, just read some Lenin already, you must be insane if you think nuclear war will bring us communism as well as any anarchist strategy. Still I'll take some crazy ass Posadist any day over a fascist.

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 * [[file:BERNHEism.png]] BERNHEism - How do you believe in this bullshit and think "oh yeah this is totally going to benefit humankind."
 * [[File:pixil-frame-0(38).png]] Neo-Majapahitism - I'm going to assume this is ironic.
 * [[File:FilFuhrIcon.png]] Isangtaoism - lmao I called you a fascist and you made an entire section called "why it would be wrong to call me a fascist", coping hard. This has to be a troll, bc how tf do you simp for Yeltsin, the United Fruit Company, Pinochet, the Tsar, and Nazcap? Bite the socialist bullet, you miserable fascist fuck.


 * -|Ideologies=

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 * [[file:Vanguardism.png]] Leninism - One of the greatest, perhaps THE greatest, Marxist theoretician of all time. Fuck the Tsar.
 * [[file:Cybercom.png]] Cybercommunism - A computer can do things much more efficiently than a human, and cybernetic economic planning will bring us great prosperity as a human race.
 * [[file:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Revolutionary Progressivism - Along with the economic base being transformed into socialism, culture must be transformed into progressivism. Socialism, in any form, must be accompanied with an anti-reactionary culture to link simple base and superstructure. Reactionary thought has no place in the society of the proletarians.
 * [[file:Fut3.png]] Russian Futurism - Brilliant artistic movement that had great potential to transform the superstructure of socialist society in the USSR, great tragedy that Socialist Realism was prioritized above it.

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 * [[file:Castro.png]] Castroism - Liberator of Cuba from the Amerikan imperialists, and, although not without his flaws, one of my favorite socialists.
 * [[file:Allende.png]] Allendism - I'm a big fan of you and I love how you fought for the Chilean people against the Amerikans, alongside laying the foundation for cybernetic socialism with Cybersyn. However, you paid the price in blood for your reformism and inability to detach from liberal democracy, and the CIA-backed coup against you is a cautionary tale we must not ever repeat. Still, if it wasn't for you we would likely not have cybernetic socialism.
 * [[file:Ultraprogressivism.png]] Revolutionary Progressivism - Along with the economic base being transformed into socialism, culture must be transformed into progressivism. Socialism, in any form, must be accompanied with an anti-reactionary culture to link simple base and superstructure. Reactionary thought has no place in the society of the proletarians.

Comments

 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - add me, fellow futurist communist
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure !
 * - Add me?
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - done, add me back?
 * [[File:LeninisBasedsmall.png]] CanadianCommunist - yo add me comrade
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - of course. could you add me back on yours?
 * [[File:LeninisBasedsmall.png]] CanadianCommunist - will do once I finish some stuff with much page
 * [[File:pixil-frame-0(38).png]] Neo-Majapahitism - add me
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - doing it right now
 * [[File:Neolenicon.png]] Neo-Leninism - add4add? we share a lot in common.
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure! just remember to add me back on yours
 * - Want me to draw you a new portrait friend?? :)
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - YES, PLEASE !!! i've been struggling so hard trying to come up w smth good lol
 * - what do you want in the portrait?
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - i'm thinking some kind of retrofuturist scifi utopia type of background behind the main ball, also the hammer and sickle has to be the squareish one thats shown in the original image. also it would b cool if the ball was holding some kind of technology accessory, but thats optional its not a big deal lol. other than that, ur free to have at it
 * - Do u have discord or some other social media' it'd be easier to communicate throug there, if that's not a problem for u, all my socials are on my user page
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure, i dont ever use discord but its slendertesticle420#2402 (dont mind the username i made it when i was a child lmao)
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - add me?
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - u got it
 * - Add me back comrade.
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure! i appreciate the constructive criticism btw
 * - can you put four icons that represent you in my comments so I can add you, comrade? :)
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - ofc ofc
 * [[File:PosadasComrade.png]] PosadasComrade Add me?
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure, add me back
 * - Communist egoism is not a governmental system it is rather a philosophy. "Without a strong state and (some) bureaucracy, how will you defend yourself from the Amerikan army?" I'm not at all against a strong military if it's necessary to fight against imperialism. You can have an efficient military without a having a strictly centralized authoritarian state. And I'm not against bureaucracy (in a weberian sense of the word).
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - I'm aware of the fact that communist egoism is not a governmental system, I'm simply saying that I doubt a governmental system founded upon ego-communist principles could successfully resist an invasion by the world's largest army. I'm also against a centralized authoritarian state, but I recognize that it may inevitably form in the aforementioned struggle against the world's largest military. We must recall a line from Lenin, "we must follow the rule: better fewer, but better."
 * - "governmental system founded upon ego-communist principles" I don't advocate for that and that doesn't even make sense. "I'm also against a centralized authoritarian state, but I recognize that it may inevitably form in the aforementioned struggle against the world's largest military." certainly because of foreign intervention some level of unexpected over-centralization and over-bureaucratization may happen but i'll simply repeat what i already said, you can have an efficient military without a having a strictly centralized authoritarian state.
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - Actually, I'm reading your page to try to figure out what exactly it is you argue for and the more I read the more I realize how in accordance we are and how much of the argument that has occurred between us is provoked out of misunderstandings of your ideology. It makes me wonder where exactly this ego-communism finds its way into your political thought? You don't seem to mention it much on your page. Personally, I see egoism (and ego-communism by extension) to be nothing but a prong of garbage liberal analysis, but I'd like to understand your perspective. I've understood egocom as primarily some kind of ultra-individual communism, so how exactly does this breed of communism influence you?
 * - Yeah i guess were running in circles right here lmao. i havent really written on egoism on my page yet but my conception of egoism is deeply influenced by the group "for ourselves". They oppose narrow individualism which is probably what youre refering when u say "garbage liberal analysis". narrow individualism would be an individualism that doesnt recognize the dialectical relationship between individual and society and thus rejects the latter (neoliberal individualism is an example of that). they propose a communist egoism that recognizes that society is composed of individuals and individuals are shaped by society and thus embraces both (individual and society).
 * [[File:MLL.png]] Libra Thought - add me? (also I can’t add you until later today because my page is locked)
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - sure !