I guess that's also my problem--I don't trust the people in general. I trust the proletariat, and I don't trust their oppressors. A dictatorship of the proletariat aimed at destroying the bourgeois seems as justified and necessary as the forcible destruction of the slave owning class in the South during the US civil war.
No worries, I'm borderline drunk too. What I like about Bakunin is that he focused in on how a dictatorship of the proletariat (DPTP) will inherently struggle to dissolve itself into statelessness--which given the history of the 20th century is hard to deny. I still feel that DOTP is necessary, but that the theory of transition to statelessness is utterly nonexistent in MLM canon (or at least I'm not aware of it), which leaves me unusually open to ancom ideas.
I'd read up on the Zapatistas. They started as Guevarist, but adapted their ML ideas into something more closely resembling anarchism through the mass line in dialogue with the Mayans they served. The result is a DotP that is deeply democratic. (For example, they once called off a battle because the people demanded it).
I guess that's also my problem--I don't trust the people in general. I trust the proletariat, and I don't trust their oppressors. A dictatorship of the proletariat aimed at destroying the bourgeois seems as justified and necessary as the forcible destruction of the slave owning class in the South during the US civil war.
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No worries, I'm borderline drunk too. What I like about Bakunin is that he focused in on how a dictatorship of the proletariat (DPTP) will inherently struggle to dissolve itself into statelessness--which given the history of the 20th century is hard to deny. I still feel that DOTP is necessary, but that the theory of transition to statelessness is utterly nonexistent in MLM canon (or at least I'm not aware of it), which leaves me unusually open to ancom ideas.
I'd read up on the Zapatistas. They started as Guevarist, but adapted their ML ideas into something more closely resembling anarchism through the mass line in dialogue with the Mayans they served. The result is a DotP that is deeply democratic. (For example, they once called off a battle because the people demanded it).
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