Catsidhe:
who calls himself a “Marxist Libertarian” which, given that he writes for the Spectator , the Daily Telegraph , and The Australian , means he almost certainly doesn’t know what either of those words actually mean.)
Or both of them together, for that matter
Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. It is contrasted from other forms of socialism by its rejection of state ownership and from other forms of libertarianism by its rejection of private property. Broadly defined, it includes schools of both anarchism and Marxism, as well as other tendencies that oppose the state and capitalism.
With its roots in the Age of Enlightenment, libertarian soc...
danimagoo:
To be fair, while I know what both of th
ose words mean individually, I haven’t got the faintest clue what they mean together. I was going to say it’d be like someone calling themselves a Democratic Fascist, but that actually seems like a barely possible ideology. Marxist Libertarian? I can’t even imagine how that would work.
Libertarianism has been socialist for a century longer than it has been capitalist, It’s somewhere between anarchism and orthodox Marxism. De Leonism was the original American version of Libertarian Marxism, similar to anarcho-syndicalism but they differed by believing in the need for a political party.
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De Leonism, also known as Marxism-De Leonism, is a Marxist tendency developed by Curaçaoan-American trade union organizer and Marxist theoretician Daniel De Leon. De Leon was an early leader of the first American socialist political party, the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP). De Leon introduced the concept of socialist industrial unionism.
According to De Leonist theory, militant industrial unions are the vehicle of class struggle. Industrial unions serving the interests of th...
Anyone who writes for Spiked stopped being a socialist years ago, if they ever were one to start with. They are all authoritarian capitalists now.
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MarjaE
April 24, 2025, 10:11pm
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It could mean council communism, or any other stateless Marxism:
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Council communism or councilism is a current of communist thought that emerged in the 1920s. Inspired by the November Revolution, council communism was opposed to state socialism and advocated workers' councils and council democracy. Councilism is also opposed to Leninism and Stalinism. It is regarded as being strongest in Germany and the Netherlands during the 1920s.
Council communism emerged in the years after 1918, as some communists in Germany and the Netherlands concluded that t...
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So that means this whole time, when people mentioned “trans men” he was assuming they were still talking about trans women. I guess he just thought they were two different terms for the same people)
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This has to be the most accurate meme ever made:
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OWYAC
April 25, 2025, 4:06pm
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He just cannot wrap his mind around any of it, can he?
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If you zoom in really close, and focus on his eyes, you can almost see the bluescreen.
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Guess I’ll never visit the UK now.
Coming soon to the U.S.; I’m sure.
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OWYAC
April 26, 2025, 4:51pm
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Blue screen of death. Haven’t seen one of those in some time.
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