It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…View Post
I'd question if "protosocialist" is necessarily the word, I think it concedes Marx's unilinealism. Instead, I'd ask how different constituencies build different revolutionary political formations. Like, the Zapatistas adapted Maoism and eventually decided they'd moved beyond Marxism. The political formation the Zapatistas built uses far more high touch decision-making than any state, despite acting as an organ for exercising class power the same way the state is used in China (where decision-making is far lower touch).
I'd question if "protosocialist" is necessarily the word, I think it concedes Marx's unilinealism. Instead, I'd ask how different constituencies build different revolutionary political formations. Like, the Zapatistas adapted Maoism and eventually decided they'd moved beyond Marxism. The political formation the Zapatistas built uses far more high touch decision-making than any state, despite acting as an organ for exercising class power the same way the state is used in China (where decision-making is far lower touch).