Marxism, A Right Wing Political Movement

[wkmac]

"I have proposed on Twitter that there is a case for regarding Marxism as right-wing rather than left-wing. The response by some has to been to question my academic credentials. These need no defence here. Instead I here make my case for re-labelling Marxism, in much more detail than I can in a 140-character tweet.

I have three major reasons for suggesting that we should describe Marxism as Right rather than Left. The first concerns the origins and original meanings of the terms Left and Right in the French Revolution of 1789. The second derives from a consideration of issues such as democracy, human rights and equality under the law, to which much of the Left has continued to serve lip-service. The third is based on how Marxist ideas played out in practice, particularly after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Maoist victory in China in 1949."

Is Marxism right-wing?

 

[Catatonic]

Sorry, not that curious.

 

[wkmac]

If you really weren't, you'd have never responded.

 

[Tired Driver]

Right or Left, it is wrong. And it is far left. Like Bernie

 

[wkmac]

Right or Left, it is wrong. And it is far left. Like Bernie

That is a very popular assumption for sure.

 

[Camille]

No, first off Marxism is supposed to be a form of anarchism. In theory. The workers own(seize) the means of production.

Of course through trotsky and Lenin a bit watered, and then competed for. Which is why Lenin chased trotsky to mexico.

2nd, Marxism and communism as a whole. 9/10 (although we've never seen the 10th.) Always creates a government which is contradictory to its cause. When this govt. Is created it slowly moves into the term of socialism. If it doesn't starve or kill systematically the people that disagree or the innocent people caught up in the hard times of that country. From gulags to bread trucks. Seizing the means of productions is both communist and socialist. Neither living in a true free market because they typically live off a quota like economy.

Left wing and right wing set by the French revolution is more or less the same as today. Left is progressive, revolution, change. Which is exactly what Marxism was founded on. (Seize the means of production for the good of the people)

To say that the left today is "lip service"....I'm sorry. ACA? Black lives matters? Pc culture the left has instituted into this country? Burning flags = revolt against nationalism (definetly lefty)..unions like teamsters getting into bed with leftists dumping money on democratic officials. Sounds like more than lip service. Sounds sorta like seizing the means of production.

And for your last point. We all know how communism ended for moa and the Russians in practice. And it ended up with
21-70 million dead non combatants.

 

[bbsam]

No, first off Marxism is supposed to be a form of anarchism. In theory. The workers own(seize) the means of production.

Of course through trotsky and Lenin a bit watered, and then competed for. Which is why Lenin chased trotsky to mexico.

2nd, Marxism and communism as a whole. 9/10 (although we've never seen the 10th.) Always creates a government which is contradictory to its cause. When this govt. Is created it slowly moves into the term of socialism. If it doesn't starve or kill systematically the people that disagree or the innocent people caught up in the hard times of that country. From gulags to bread trucks. Seizing the means of productions is both communist and socialist. Neither living in a true free market because they typically live off a quota like economy.

Left wing and right wing set by the French revolution is more or less the same as today. Left is progressive, revolution, change. Which is exactly what Marxism was founded on. (Seize the means of production for the good of the people)

To say that the left today is "lip service"....I'm sorry. ACA? Black lives matters? Pc culture the left has instituted into this country? Burning flags = revolt against nationalism (definetly lefty)..unions like teamsters getting into bed with leftists dumping money on democratic officials. Sounds like more than lip service. Sounds sorta like seizing the means of production.

And for your last point. We all know how communism ended for moa and the Russians in practice. And it ended up with
21-70 million dead non combatants.

Seizing the means of production..."

If it's communism/socialism on the left, what's it called when the means of production (the corporations themselves) seize the government itself?

 

[Catatonic]

Seizing the means of production..."

If it's communism/socialism on the left, what's it called when the means of production (the corporations themselves) seize the government itself?

Faux-Capitalism?

 

[bbsam]

Faux-Capitalism?

American-Capitalism?

 

[TearsInRain]

Seizing the means of production..."

If it's communism/socialism on the left, what's it called when the means of production (the corporations themselves) seize the government itself?

Corporatocracy - Wikipedia