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What am I camouflaging? Why is the state a "nexus of power," what does that entail, and why is it a bad thing?
Something bad, I'm sure, but I don't see how that's relevant.
There are many examples, Cuba is a quick and easy one. However, given your lack of elaboration on "industrial feudalism," I think we are in for more stellar vibes-based analysis with lots of fiery language and no analysis whatsoever.
You haven't given a good reason to ally with you either, you have proven to be needlessly sectarian, aggressive, and unable to explain your criticisms.
Why do you need the obvious explained to you? Why do you think Marxist-Leninists want to seize the state? Because it (somehow) isn't the nexus of power? What would be the point of centralized economic, political and social power if there was no organ through which to hegemonically exercise it?
Where does the institutionalized monopoly of violence reside in a hierarchical society, Clyde? On my patio, perhaps?
It's perfectly relevant - this has been the proscribed logic of every (so-called) "AES" so far... and none of them has delivered anything that can be called socialism with a straight face.
The Cuban working class controls nothing. Cuba is not a socialist project - it is a nationalist one, plain and simple. Something isn't "socialist" just because it got help from the USSR. The USSR cared about a lot of things - helping socialism along wasn't one of them. It cared about as much for "spreading socialism" as the US cares about "spreading democracy."
Try again.
I'm not the one whining about "leftist unity" - you are. I see no value in "leftist unity" whatsoever.
I want to hear it from your mouth, because so far you've been doing a lot of gesturing and asserting without explaining anything, and when your views conflict with established Leftist theory and history, I want to know why you hold those stances.
Marxists of all sorts wish to seize the Capitalist state as it is the instrument by which Private Property Rights are enforced and protected, and that which validate Class Society in Capitalism. Transferring power from the Bourgeoisie to Democratic institutions and councils is the goal and history of Marxism.
More random jabs, childish and unproductive.
Care to explain why democratic states that control industry, rather than wealthy Capitalists, is not Socialism? This is that thing you do, you gesture, assert, add some fiery language, but offer no supporting evidence or analysis to work off of.
As an equivalent, I could say that Donkeys are a type of fish, and that nobody could assert otherwise with a straight face. That would have the same level of rhetorical weight as what you have been doing thus far, even after I have tried to poke and prod you into a defensible position.
Why is a Democratic Worker State where production is controlled by people directly and their elected representatives not Socialist? What could they do to become Socialist, in your eyes?
I don't see how you plan on achieving any leftist goals by trying to fight with every leftist that attempts to have a productive conversation with you. If your goals are not building up dual power to overtake the system, and instead to yell online and ridicule other leftists, then I would say you're likely doing more harm to leftism than good. At that point, there's very little separating you from a liberal, who also attacks the left and preserves the status quo.
Nothing I have said conflicts with leftist theory and history in any way whatsoever. What I have said does conflict with Marxist-Lennist "theory" and "history" - not really sure whether that can be called leftist, though.
Oh... is that what the Bolsheviks were doing? I guess they just happened to hijack the soviets through anti-democratic means purely by accident, then?
So class society is good as long as it's not capitalist, eh? Do tell - what class do you imagine yourself to be in your idealized, faux-socialist utopia? Let me guess... the class that doesn't have to do all the hard and dangerous work with barely even a smidgen of the labour protection workers in the imperial core get?
No, really, Clyde - where does the institutionalized monopoly of violence reside in a hierarchical society?
The state does not represent the working class.
The state will never represent the working class.
If the state controls the means of production, it means the working class doesn't.
The state will only ever represent the interests of the small elite that control it's apparatus. You know this perfectly well - and you believe yourself entitled to be a member of that elite that are (supposedly) qualified to dictate material conditions to the working class "for it's own good".
Everything you say merely exists to dress up that fact in socialist-sounding discourse designed to hide that you view the working class as little more than something that exists to facilitate your utopian fantasies. I'd say they were utopian fantasies that was doomed to failure - but delivering socialism isn't really the point to you and yours, is it?
You are not just anti-democratic - you are fundamentally anti-socialist.
What "leftist goals" can someone who only has loyalty to a technocratic elite have? You are no less classist than the liberals and capitalists - we have no goals in common.
Let me repeat that - me and you have no goals in common.