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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.
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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.
Validity of theory isn’t based on what its writers do, but on what its students do. It’s a social science and without practical application it is absolutely worthless.
Marx, Engels and Lenin have been proven right by the practice of Marxist-Leninists, it isn’t the rule that the best theorists are also revolutionary leaders, but revolutionary leaders by their success prove the worth of the theory they applied to their circumstances.
I’ve never met a Bordiga follower whose achievements amount to more than writing in opposition to AES. You didn’t need to read leftcoms for that.