Has anyone met a supporter of any of the following "extinct" Left-Wing ideologies. I know some of these ideologies have evolved and merged with modern ones today but some have unique characteristics.
Robespierrists: Specifically his theory about Virtue, Terror, Rousseau, and Republicanism. Including the Cult of the Supreme Being
Hébertists: Dechristianization and the Cult of Reason (Modern Fedoras can be seen as this)
Enragés: Maximum Edge in Far-Left form utilizing price controls and extremely strict punishments to destroy the rich.
Babouvism: The ideology of François-Noël Babeuf, considered "The First Revolutionary Communist"; it is practically proto-communism, it lacks much theory
Blanquism: Non-Marxist Socialists who believes that a coup of elite revolutionaries would establish socialism. inb4 Proto-Leninism
All sectarian ideologies are inherently meme ideologies since I doubt you'll have a hard time finding anyone IRL and outside of places like/leftypol/ who seriously subscribe to such ideologies fully. Another one you're missing is Soreleanism which is essentially ultraviolent syndicalism
Camden Myers
Sylvain Marechal counts? Also I find it funny when people only remember Robespierre when the French Rev is mentioned. Of course he's essential but there were also Saint-Just, Desmoullins, Danton, Hebert, the enrages, etc.
And philofascism if not outright fascism
Nolan Anderson
Marxism-Leninism and Maoism are pretty much extinct at this point. The only people calling themselves "MLs" or "Maoists" are edgy kids or groups like the Naxals which are probably going to lay down their arms within a few years.
Any school of leftist thought older than 40 years is de facto useless for the modern day. Even most anarcho-syndicalists are just Chomsky fanboys who contribute very little in terms of pragmatic action.
Nathan Cooper
By that I mean, Bolivarianism, EuroCommunism, Democratic Confederalism, Autonomism, and even stuff like Fourth Political Theory, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics or Gaddafi's Green Book (which is just 4PT with North African features) *are*, in fact, new theories which incorporate issues relevant to today.
You may object by saying most of these ideologies "aren't socialist" when put into practice, but they point is, they *are* being put into practice because they're pragmatic for the time being. Post-revolutionary Russia didn't look like the Paris Commune but that doesn't mean it wasn't a DoP.
Ian Butler
De Leonism.
Josiah Phillips
Situationism. I mean, Debord and co. were a bunch of pretentious hipster fucks. Who on earth wants to bring back this shitty movement today?
Juan Turner
Has anyone met an IRL Georgist? I'm pretty sure Sun Yat Sen carries more political clout globally than Henry George at this point.
Look for mutualist groups on FB and you'll find a few. Not even kidding.
Alexander Ward
What does Lincoln have to do with Taiwan?
Nathaniel Lopez
Sun Yat Sen got his ideas of politics from primarily Henry George and Abraham Lincoln, and it's not just Taiwan, he took down the entire Qing dynasty
Daniel Parker
If the Georgists back in the day didn't shit so hard on Marc they'd probably be more relevant as a political faction of leftism today. A lot of Georgist elements are incorporated into contemporary leftist thought, specifically that of housing as a basic human right. LAND IS A RIGHT FOR ALL
Eli Butler
Georgism, although it's all over the place on the political compass. While some right-libertarians have tried to grab Henry George for themselves, I find his writings in "Progress and Poverty" quite fascinating. He follows similar footsteps in his critique of capitalism as Kropotkin, asking how mankind can have succeeded is spawning suffering and squalor where there once was none, when our tools and technologies should in their efficiency have easily brought prosperity to all.
Inb4 "Winston 'Gas the Kurds up the ass' Churchill was a Georgist, you fucking fuckboy" (it's true)
Damn you quick-draws, always stealing my thunder! :^)
neo jacobins, saint simonians, owenites, fourierists, proudhonist,
Landon Harris
Sorelians, Synarchists, and National Syndicalists are sadly extinct for the most part. Damn shame, considering how viable they are, especially in the modern day.
Chase Bell
Aren't all of those pretty much precursors to fascism though?
Brandon Martinez
There's a Henry George school of economics at some university in america. They have hosted a 30 part lecture by Anwar Shaikh on their youtube channel. It's a good watch if you need 30 hours of entertainment/education.
Jace Bennett
Fascism was a form of leftism that arose as a reaction to proto-SJW attitudes among the pseudo-left at the time
Logan Morgan
Alot of capitalist nations operate on land being out of private ownership
Lincoln Jackson
*Afew
i need to sleep soon, damn
Lincoln Wood
Unironic Blanquist here.
Isaiah Lee
Pathetically revisionist
Leo Wright
What even is situationism? Wasn't that a group not an ideology?
Alexander Sullivan
ultras love them because you can't form a coherent praxis around them
Fascism emerged from revisionism you dummy. I say this as a fascist. Fascism is not leftist. It is centrist.
Benjamin Cruz
I'd consider left-wing Agorism a pretty dead ideology. The only people into Agorism are "An"-Caps right now. How many Individualist Mutualists do you know? Benjamin Tucker and his ideas don't get mentioned enough on the mainstream Left.
Sanders proves my point. There's no way in bloody hell the US will undergo a 1917-tier revolution. Sanders is the best it can get and there's nothing wrong with that.
Henry Stewart
That's neo-fascism, which is an aberration. Actual fascism was left wing.
Carson Bennett
Any kind of fascism is an aberration
Elijah Jones
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Austin Jenkins
Any -ism put in practice in the 20th century can only serve as inspiration and/or a lesson for the future. Material conditions have changed to such a degree since 1991 that to call oneself a "Marxist-Leninist" or "Titoist" or "Syndicalist" is in practice a form of virtue signaling that tells other which historical figures and policies you admire/dislike.
Any actually-existing socialism in the 21st century will be distinct from any and all practiced or attempted socialism of the 20th century. It may have a lineage leading back to one tendency or another but the fact of the matter is that there will never be another "Marxist-Leninist" state in the classical sense of the term.
TD;LR: Stop LARPing about the past and prepare for the future.
Michael Hernandez
The irony of it all is that people will disagree with you and create more sects. Hey wait your ideas can be a form of "Post-20th Century Left Sect" with its own -ism.
Nathan Campbell
THIS.
Matthew Harris
So? This doesn't mean you have to create a bunch of tiny irrelevant ideologies like Gaddafism or whatever. Regardless of what you think of China, it's a self-described Marxist-Leninist state that's quite different than the USSR ever was.
Wyatt Nelson
I think the problem is more like this.
"We need to change the left to survive the 21st Century" -Everyone
And then Sectarianism is made Worse.
Cameron Mitchell
What's wrong with Gaddafi?
Sebastian Howard
Thank God I'm not the only one who sees how stupid and self-defeating this is. Make-it-New-itis is a cancer on the Left and actually a source of a great deal of discord, confusion and a perennial inability to come to a consensus on anything.
William Brooks
Che Guevara was one actually
Grayson Cooper
>>>/marx/8539
Landon Bell
Tolstoy introduced me to Georgism, but I went down the rabbit hole and ho-hey Anarcho-Communism
Jason Watson
that's not extinct…its coming back, much to far leftists disapproval.
Daniel James
lol, we're actually returning. also sadness is something people with emotions have. and emotions are gay.
Hunter Garcia
duh, you steal it
Eli Lewis
WWII WAS LEFTIST INFIGHTING GANG
Asher Wright
Was Hitler a Trot?
Logan Thompson
Diggers
Adam Gutierrez
I recognize this triple-posting style from another board…ps Pol Pot did nothing wrong
