Jefbol Thought

= Five Points of Socialism on the Mississippi=


 * [[File:RevSynd.png]] The formation of revolutionary syndicates of the working class
 * [[File:Sorelia.png]] The belief in the myth of the general strike
 * [[File:Synd.png]] The overthrow of the capitalist state and the establishment of a dictatorship of the working class under the workers’ syndicates
 * [[File:Ormarxf.png]] The abolition of wage labor, generalization of commodities, and private property.
 * [[File:Commie.png]] The withering away of the state and the establishment of higher-stage communism (a stateless, classless, moneyless society)

=Political Views=

[[File:Ormarxf.png]] Dialectical Materialism
Dialectical/historical materialism views society from the perspective of the struggle between classes and the contradictions that have arrived from class conflict. Marx and Engels explain this best when they state:

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

Under capitalism, this is no different as contradictions relating to the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat dominant capitalism. These contradictions, as Marx and Engels rightfully pointed out, will eventually cause capitalism to collapse under its own weight as class contradictions reach their peak and the proletariat, now class conscious and united under a common myth.

Society's crucial structures according to this logic are the economic base and the societal superstructure. The economic base is best summarized as being directly related to the mode of production, as the relations to the mode of production as part of the base. The superstructure meanwhile relates to everything from education to mass media, and while both the base and superstructure can influence each other, the superstructure tends to be the one being influenced by the economic base as it helps uphold and maintain the current economic structure.

[[File:Sorel.png]] The Myth
Georges Sorel in Reflections on Violence introduced his most famous concept, that being of the myth. The myth can be best described as a Marxist analysis of how revolutionary movements believe themselves to have an inevitable victory, and these myths are usually expressed in the form of images and ideas. Now, Sorel also differentiated myths from utopian ideals. Myths, unlike utopias, encourage proletarians to work within Marxist discipline. The myth for revolutionary syndicalists, is that of the proletarian general strike, which of course must be worked towards in accordance with revolutionary spontaneity.

With us working towards the realization of the myth of the general strike, we must take a hardline anti-reformist stance. Reformism is a form of infantile leftism that will only preserve the capitalist mode of production, creating the most reactionary form of capitalism there is (that of social democracy).

Ultimately, it is us who holds the real scientific and political knowledge, as Sorel stated in Reflections on Violence. "That is why I say that, by accepting the idea of the general strike, although we know that it is a myth, we are proceeding exactly as a modern physicist does who has complete confidence in his science, although he knows that the future will look upon it as antiquated."

[[File:Statist.png]] The State and Socialist Transformation
Now, the Marxist scientific analysis of the state is that it being a structure of class domination, the monopoly on the use of violence against other classes. The proletariat during the revolution must of course, overthrow the ruling bourgeois class and establish supremacy over the forces of violence and authority. However, it's not as simple as it appears.

Marx in "The Civil War in France", taking lessons from the Paris Commune, explained that the working class could not just take control of the existing state machinery, with him stating:

''“On the dawn of March 18, Paris arose to the thunder-burst of “Vive la Commune!” What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind? “The proletarians of Paris,” said the Central Committee in its manifesto of March 18, amidst the failures and treasons of the ruling classes, have understood that the hour has struck for them to save the situation by taking into their own hands the direction of public affairs.... They have understood that it is their imperious duty, and their absolute right, to render themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the governmental power.” But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.”''

Instead, as both Marx and later Lenin stated, the proletariat must destroy the bourgeois state and created their own state functions and machinery. We have seen what has happened when revolutionary movements fail to destroy the state machinery.

Georges Sorel in Reflections on Violence, pointed out how the Jacobins, due to their failure to destroy the feudal state machinery, ended up resorting to the same Old Regime tactics and functions. He saw that without an interruption in the state’s existence, the DotP would inevitably degenerate.

This analysis holds true in the Soviet Union, where the Bolsheviks after seizing power, failed to destroy the Tsarist state machinery. This was catastrophic for socialism in the Soviet Union, as the DotP soon entered into a state of decay right after Lenin's death, ultimately until the final blow to the USSR's DotP came when Nikita Khrushchev took power and started a process of liberalization.

The rejection of Marx’s stance on the need to abolish the bourgeois state machinery is a huge mistake. This belief in the use of present state structures to use as a base for the establishment of the DotP leads to the pacifying of proletarian movements into adopting parliamentarian and social democratic views, and this is exactly what happened to parties like the SPD in Germany.

On the other hand, the rejection of the state entirely is also a mistake, even if we as revolutionary syndicalists reject the bourgeois ideal of statism. The passage from capitalism to lower-stage communism, and then from the lower-stage to the higher-stage, requires the dictatorship of the proletariat to be in full of force with the weapon of violence at its disposal, at all times. The anarchists and their plan to abolish the state with the stroke of a pen and the bringing about of higher-stage communism immediately, naive of the conditions post-capitalism, will only lead to catastrophe as the conditions + the contradictions of the base and superstructure have not been resolved.

[[File:Succdem.png]] A Marxist Analysis of the Reform-Revolution Debate
A concerning trend of the rejection of proletarian revolution and violence in favor of evolutionary social democratic politics has sprung up in the past few years among the online left. Those who wave the flags of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Labor Party of Britain, and who reject the notion of revolution and Marxist analysis in favor of petit bourgeois opportunism, these middle class liberals putting on the mask of the labor movement will be the downfall of socialism.

Reformism historically and today is a form of infantile leftism based upon the idealist premises of the ability to use state power and electoralism to achieve socialist goals and aims. This is simply a utopian vision and ignores the nature and ethics of the bourgeoisie. Georges Sorel noted in “Reflections on Violence” how the bourgeoisie would weaken its own power for the sake of its own stability and security. Reformism of course does exactly this, and plays right into the hands of the capitalists. The granting of concessions to the proletariat are only that, concessions that can be taken away at any point and have only been made to weaken the labor movement and to keep the bourgeoisie’s power secure.

Social democracy in of itself is the most efficient form of reactionism. It, under the mask of humanism and bourgeois paternalism, creates the perfect illusion of a progressive society. The rents of the third world are turned into sustainable welfare, and imperialist bloodshed is turned into a humanitarian endeavor to protect the illusion that is “human rights”.

Reformism in of itself fails to realize that even with these concessions given to the proletariat coming into effect, the structure of the state and the economy remains. You can take a poodle and do all sorts of things to change the poodle’s appearance, but a poodle it remains. And this logic applies to reformism. You can reform the bourgeois state, sure, but it still remains a bourgeois state that must be shattered by the revolutionary proletariat.

=Relations=


 * -|Real Ideologies =

Sigma Club

 * [[File:Sorelia.png]] - [[File:Gigachad.png]] (do not worry king i will protect you from any criticism any dumb libtard makes about you using the power of ratios)
 * [[File:Deleon.png]] - Your criticisms of syndicalism weren't great, but otherwise you are a fucking legend.
 * [[File:Situ.png]] - Down with the spectacle of mass media and the capitalist superstructure!
 * [[File:Impossible.png]] -  zazed.. so fucking zazed

Meh/I Don’t Know

 * [[File:Mao.png]] - Dissapointing leadership of China to say the least, though it wasn't really your fault.
 * [[File:ML.png]] - Should be considered an ideology of the past.

Not Even Funny

 * [[File:Left_Reformism.png]] - kill possibilists, behead possibilists, roundhouse kick possibilists into the concrete, slam dunk a possibilist’s baby into the trash can, crucify filthy possibilists, defecate into possibilists food, launch possibilists into the sun, stir fry possibilists in a wok, toss possibilists into active volcanoes


 * -|User Ideologies =

The Sigma Grindset

 * [[File:Yoda8soup.png]] Yoda8soup Thought - Fairly based. Reject reform however, because in the words of Daniel De Leon, “Take, for instance, a poodle. You can reform him in a lot of ways. You can shave his whole body and leave a tassel at the tip of his tail; you may bore a hole through each ear, and tie a blue bow on one and a red bow on the other; you may put a brass collar around his neck with your initials on, and a trim little blanket on his back; yet, throughout, a poodle he was and a poodle he remains. Each of these changes probably wrought a corresponding change in the poodle’s life. When shorn of all his hair except a tassel at the tail’s tip he was owned by a wag who probably cared only for the fun he could get out of his pet; when he appears gaily decked in bows, probably his young mistress’ attachment is of tenderer sort; when later we see him in the fancier’s outfit, the treatment he receives and the uses he is put to may be yet again and probably are, different. Each of these transformations or stages may mark a veritable epoch in the poodle’s existence. And yet, essentially, a poodle he was, a poodle he is and a poodle he will remain. That is reform.”
 * [[File:Arthurwp_marx.png]] Arthurwp Thought - Not bad, pretty cool actually.
 * [[File:O'Langism.png]] O'Langism - Pretty cool, though I’m not an anarchist.
 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Neo-Kiraism - Cool
 * [[File:Borker thought pixels 4.png]] Borker Thought - Tolerable ideology, cool guy.
 * - Your ideology is fine, and Mao was one of the better MLs, but supporting Stalin’s economism is concerning to say the least.

Alright

 * [[File:Borker thought pixels 4.png]] Borker Thought - Tolerable ideology, cool guy.
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - Pretty alright for a Marxist-Leninist.


 * - Average possibilist.

Mid

 * [[File:PosadasComrade.png]] PosadasComrade thought - Uhm, ok..

Soy and Not Even Funny

 * [[File:Omega1065.png]] Omegaism - Seems like an ok guy, but basically your average neocuck liberal.
 * [[File:Brazlib.png]] Brazilian Liberalism - Another day, another liberal neocuck.

=Comments= CanadianCommunist - hmmmmm, i kinda like it, add me
 * - Can you add me to relations when you make it?
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - yea ill start on relations tomorrow most likely
 * - nice self insert also quite based! Can you add me when you get the chance comrade? :)
 * [[File:O'Langism.png]] O'Langism - Add me back, comrade?
 * [[File:PosadasComrade.png]] PosadasComrade Add me pls?
 * [[File:Neokira2.png]] Meowxism - add me
 * - Add me? I’ll add you when I get around to it.
 * [[File:O'Langism.png]] O'Langism - Why are you anti-abortion?
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - mostly personal objections, but i wouldn’t ban it under my hypothetical rule, and i am fine with it in certain circumstances like rape or teen pregnancy
 * Add me?
 * - Thoughts on imperialism, colonialism and racism?
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - good when i do it quite soy and unfunny

Neo-Majapahitism - add me
 * - Added you, also wanna add me back (btw I'm not completely anti-revolution, I just prefer to minimize needless violence)

TEB - Add me? Glencoe- added you back add me
 * [[File:Libcon.png]] ResponsibleCitizen - Thoughts on Charles Maurras (whom Georges Sorel praised, along with the Action Française)?
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - he didn’t praise them, and letters that sorel wrote have revealed his whole stunt with action francaise and cercle proudhon was basically just to find his student eduard berth a new political home as sorel was retiring from politics
 * [[File:apocalypsnukeball.png]] Domestic Church - What are your thoughts on sex besides accepting LGBt?
 * [[File:Brazlib.png]] Brazilian Liberalism - Add me
 * [[File:--CYBERLEN.--icon.png]] Cyberleninism - My criticism of you was so dumb lmao that's my bad. I updated it on my page, could you update yours as well? thx
 * [[File:Jefsynd.png]] Jefbol Thought - updated 👍👍
 * [[File:MiskaAlt.png]] Miškaism add me, comrade
 * [[File:Esopinochet.png]] Mr Whooper Manism-Add me tanksexual
 * [[File:Brazlib.png]] Brazilian Liberalism - Add [[File:NightmareBrazLib.png]] Nightmare Brazilian Liberalism?