Neo-Leninism

Neo-Leninism, also known under a variety of different names, is a far-left, culturally progressive  ideology based on the ideological interpretations of Marxism by  Lenin that are known as. It takes minor ideological influences from  and   and is aligned to the   movement.

Neo-Leninism believes that a revolutionary  should be responsible for managing and directing the dictatorship of the proletariat, while local workers' councils known as Soviets should serve as the basis for a socialist nation's legislature and politics. It is anti- (and by extension ) and also  anti-, labeling the former as an ideology which led to the over-bureaucratization of the state and the vanguard party and ultimately led to the reintroduction of capitalism, while the latter is opposed owing to disagreements regarding permanent revolution.

In general, Neo-Leninism seeks to establish a libertarian socialist society in which the dictatorship of the proletariat is organized by a revolutionary mass-worker's vanguard party, serving not as the government or an organism of the government but as an independent organization akin to a labor union, while the managing and running of government is left to local workers' councils (soviets), especially in regards to economics. Neo-Leninism rejects the NEP, seeing the re-introduction of capitalist policies in Soviet Russia as a betrayal of basic communist values, but it also opposes the top-down command economy of the Soviet Union in favor of a decentralized, bottom-up planned economy.

An introduction to communism (and socialism)
"Communism" and "socialism" are two terms which have vastly different meanings to a crowd of people, including within the Marxist movement. To most in the west, in particular the United States, "communism" is merely the, which we know as Marxism-Leninism. To, others it may be a variety of other definitions, similar to the one listed above (often something something iPhone stealing), but what they all have in common is that they have virtually nothing to do with the actual definition of communism, not the "definition" granted by outside observers but by Marx himself. Communism is both an ideology and an end goal: For many Marxists, using the term "communist" to describe a state or movement is not incorrect. What, then, is communism? It's a, complex subject, one with many layers which even I did not know until recently, but to summarize it: Communism is a rejection of the modern order. Communism rejects the idea of "currency", communism rejects the idea of the "state", and communism rejects the idea that one man should be above or below another. But what does that actually mean? As it turns out, most people do not understand why communism rejects currency and state, let alone how the state and currency disappears under communism.

We cannot discuss how communism achieves its goals without looking at socialism first. Socialism is not a different ideology or "stage" from communism, and it is not the transitionary period between capitalism to communism. When one speaks of the "transitionary period", they often mistake socialism for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the driving force of change which is necessary for any communist movement to make actual change. Socialism is merely a lower stage of development in communism- where the state, currency, and classes have already withered away. What distinguishes socialism from communism though, is the motivation of work. While currency may no longer exist as for the most part scarcity has been overcome, it still does not mean that people are required to work. People still have to work to "earn" a living to support themselves and their family. They still have to "work" to survive, as while the value of their labor has replaced the arbitrary value of a few dollars, it still does not eliminate the concept in its entirety. "labor vouchers"- in a, sort of broad sense is what I am referring to here.

Why does the man work?
In communism, the man works because he wants to. There are many an idiotic anti-communist who state that "Without a profit incentive, people wouldn't work!", or "If everybody could get anything, nobody would work!", and to that of course I say that the man does not work for profit. The man does not work because he wants a bunch of digits to be added to his bank account. He doesn't work because he can't wait to receive a stack of green paper-cloth bills. Money on its own has absolutely no value whatsoever. You can't do anything with a dollar bill without distorting it and thus rendering it unusable. You can draw on a dollar bill, but after a certain point in which you've "defaced" it, it renders it unusable. You can... try and crumple it up, but crumpling up paper isn't really "fun". The most "value" that anybody could get out of a dollar bill itself is folding it up into a paper airplane and then flying it around the room. No, the man does not work because of money. The man works so he can get the things that he needs and wants. Money is simply a form of exchange- a middle man between the buyer and the seller, the producer of the product and the recipient of the product. Of course there is still the question of "why?" If one has his needs guaranteed and he is so freely able to purchase and achieve his wants, what then is stopping people from not working at all and becoming leeches? Two things: One, you would be beaten by a crowd for being a leech and not producing, and two: natural human instinct. The "nature" argument is one that I absolutely despise, especially considering how more often than not it passes pseudoscientific bullshit or capitalist propaganda as being "natural in nature". But humans are not natural. Sure, we still have instincts- we still have a drive to reproduce and to socialize, but we have a grasp on self-control so powerful that it dwarfs anything else in the animal kingdom. What we have not grasped or been able to control however, is the instinct to be productive: the instinct to work. Humans like to work. What work means to me and you may differ, but they both share one thing in common: They produce. They produce, something. Whether that be writing a book for people to read and enjoy, or farming so that people can put food on the table, they both produce something that makes life better to people. Books of course are usually of less value than the food that farms put on the table, but that doesn't mean that books or literature are of no value.

What is work?
"But so and so isn't work!", one may cry. But again, what is work? Is it, something that generates a profit? It certainly can't be considering that volunteer work, which has no financial incentive whatsoever, is considered work. Is it... the idea that because one thing is of more value to more people than the other that both the "lesser product" and the labor that went into it is worthless? Again, no, because that would imply that the book you spent 5 bucks on to read was worthless, you were using a worthless and stupid thing, and that you're a fucking idiot for spending money on a book rather than bread. But the book isn't worthless, is it? If you read it, which you are obviously going to do if you wasted 5 bucks on a book, then you probably gained something out of it: an experience. You may have laughed, cried, been shocked, felt fear or suspense- everything on the emotional spectrum, but you still enjoyed it. Even if you didn't enjoy the book, that still does not make it worthless, as somebody else could pick up the very same book and have the experience I described above. We then come to a conclusion: that defining "work" by anything other than something which produces something of value, whether for ourselves or others is silly and is solely used for propagandistic reasons to put artists, writers and other such creatives down because they're not in the factories or in the farms or in the office building having the value of their labor stolen from them.

The status of currency and the state in communism
What about currency, though? As I mentioned previously both communist and socialist societies have a complete lack of currency, so why?, and or how? Currency cannot be abolished. That is not how basic economics work, and anybody with a sensible mind that is not an anarchist will immediately tell you that trying to get rid of the bartering tool which the entire world is built around would result in a collapse of society. No, socialism and communism do not seek to abolish currency, rather the practical usage of currency falls completely flat when the sociomaterial circumstances that socialism and communism render currency useless. Currency exists because there is both natural and artificial scarcity. There are only so many so and so's, and thus due to the laws of supply and demand currency is required to ensure that the product does not disappear entirely and the seller of the product does not lose his precious profits. So what happens when there is no scarcity? What happens when it becomes astonishingly easy to produce high-quality products in bulk to such a cheap and inexpensive point that applying an artificial value to them simply makes no sense!

What of the state? The state does not exist under communism and socialism, but what many misunderstand that (including many an anarcho-communist) is that this means that the state disappears overnight! Once again, no. It is impossible for a society based on the socioeconomic conditions of capitalism to exist and survive without a state. Again, communism reinvents society, it does not destroy it, and subsequently both the abolition of currency and the state have been proven time and time again to be impossible. No, the state decays naturally, as it is needed less and less for the daily running of society it is used less and less until one day it is not used at all, and nobody bats an eye. This natural decay ensures that the organs of the state actually disappear and cannot be replicated. One can easily see the failings of a society which attempts to abolish the state outright with the Makhnovschina, who despite nomally being "anarchists" were in reality little more than a bunch of libertarian socialists ran by a military junta who retained a state, currency and social classes and of which there is little to no excuse outside of "hard times" as to why this basic betrayal of anarchist thinking (which is already pretty basic of itself) is justified.

In conclusion
In conclusion: What is communism? - A society in which no man is above or below another, where people work because of want to produce rather than need, where currency does not exist due to a lack of scarcity and where the state does not exist due to a lack of need for it. What is socialism? - A society similar to the one depicted above, with the exception that full scarcity has not been achieved and subsequently people still need to work. The end. Or, rather not- since I plan on writing more one of these days, but for now enjoy (or don't enjoy) reading this explanation of "fake economics", as one user would put it. == Relationships ==

Comrades!

 * [[File:Marx.png]] - Hello, father!
 * [[File:Orthlen.png]] - Hello, other father!
 * [[File:Vanguardism.png]] - Vanguardism is the way to go!

Friends!

 * [[File:LeftCom.png]] - Based that you oppose the revisionism of Marxism-Leninism and Stalinism, but some of you reject Leninism entirely!
 * [[File:CouncilComm.png]] - I agree with you that society should be organized based on workers' councils... but you oppose vanguardism, so...
 * [[File:Bordiga.png]] - Hits HARD.
 * Gay.png - Homosexuals are comrades too! Now read theory.
 * Trans.png - Transgenders are comrades! Now read theory. And stop talking about weird shit like "Stransserism"!

Frenemies

 * [[File:ML.png]] - You're not ENTIRELY bad, and I agree with you some things, but... you still suck.
 * [[File:Trot.png]] - Permanent revolution is NOT the way to go! I do agree with you that the Soviet Union was a degenerated/deformed workers' state though.

Class Traitors!

 * [[File:Socdem.png]] - FASCIST!
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] - RED FASCIST!
 * [[File:Demsocstar.png]] - NONE of you are socialists! NONE OF YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS GRRRAAWRGH

ENEMIES!

 * [[File:Fash.png]] - FASCIST!
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] - FASCIST!
 * [[File:Strasser.png]] - Socialist economically... BUT STILL FASCIST!
 * [[File:AncomCuck.png]] - The state is to be WITHERED away you idiots, it can't be abolished!
 * [[File:Capital.png]] - GRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAWRGGGHHH