Since you said that, I checked redstarpublishers for Cornforth’s work, and it’s in the same text PDF format! Might be a lot easier to transcribe into an epub for comlib or Prolewiki library entry!

Complaining about “violent antifa psychos” isn’t really constructive discussion, it’s just open admission to being against antifascism.

Yep, thought so too at first when searching for it, it’s one of those things I don’t think anyone has gotten around to transcribing into plain text.

I haven’t actually seen Materialism and the Dialectical Method transcribed into text, though I’m sure epubs exist of it somewhere. I’ve only found pdfs, like the above link. I wouldn’t want to ask anyone to take on such a large task, but if it’s something you’d like to take on I’d absolutely appreciate it.

Cornforth’s prior mentioned work and Adoratsky’s Dialectical Materialism are the two I’ve been passively looking for. I think they may replace Elementary Principles of Philosophy, or perhaps come after it.

Let me know if anything comes of it!

I actually have been meaning to look at changing up the philosophy section for Rev 3, and this was one of the candidates. Unfortunately, it isn’t in a format that is easily readable on a phone, like Prolewiki or epubs, and I haven’t read it myself either. If someone were to add it to a site where it is easy to read on phones, then it would be much more compelling to add. Same as Adoratsky’s work on Dialectical Materialism

A capitalist party being right-wing is basic left/right understanding. Dugin has nothing to do with this.

Leftists don’t really have “rigid” worldviews, but consistent ones. It takes a great deal of confronting the status quo ideologically, as well as study, in order to definitively say that capitalism has to go. Liberals tend to just be born into their liberalism, and thus often hold extremely contradictory or irrational views.

Bingo.

Liberals call this “purity testing,” but fundamentally the democrats stand for perpetuating capitalism and imperialism. These two points of contention are irreconcilable with any leftist.

You called countries like China “shitholes,” and were taking issue with the fact that the US Empire has been a constant source of pain and misery for the entire planet, yet the DPRK is labeled as a “terrorizing rogue state.” It isn’t because you don’t agree with the DPRK, it’s because you were being chauvanist and minimizing the fact that the DPRK is a very peaceful country internationally (since the Korean War) while the US Empire has been committing vast amounts of genocide and imperialism the world over.

Not all disagreements are “purity testing.”

All communists are at first socialists, communism is a post-socialist mode of production. Liberals on the other hand support capitalism, and do unfortunately outnumber the socialists/communists. It isn’t about “purity tests,” there are fundamental disagreements among people that cannot be reconciled.

“Tankie” is just a pejorative for Marxists in the form of a strawman laden with contradictions. Marxism-Leninism is by no means right-wing, but that just goes to show you how ridiculous the strawman is. Lemmy.world is more liberal, anti-communist, so there’s lots of red scare fearmongering over there.

As a side note, if you want a broader user experience, it might be better to make an account on sopuli.xyz or something like it that doesn’t block the major leftist instances like Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml, which Lemmy.world unfortunately does.

That’s certainly one way to frame it, though I don’t think it’s particularly accurate. In general, there are 3 major groups:

1. The Marxist-Leninists. On Lemmy, the overwhelming majority of Marxists are MLs. The MLs are found primarily on Lemmy.ml, Hexbear.net, and Lemmygrad.ml. This group was here first.

2. The anarchists. These vary much more than the Marxists do in views. They are primarily found on dbzer0/anarchist nexus, Hexbear.net, and some on slrpnk.net. This group arrived a bit after the Marxists.

3. The liberals. These vary a bit more than the anarchists do, from the more cryptofascist-aligned primarily found on sh.itjust.works, to the more DNC-aligned found on Lemmy.world, to the more social democratic found on blahaj and slrpnk.net. This group is where most newcomers go to.

These 3 groups make up the broad majority, and each instance has their own mixtute of the 3 major groups. This largely shapes how instances interact. There isn’t a grand Marxist war on the fediverse, you’re looking from the more liberal-aligned side of things.

No, this is fundamentally wrong, akin to saying NATO and doctors without borders are the same thing. If you erase every distinguishing characteristic and just look at things as “organizations” with no further investigation, you absolutely ruin your viewpoint. I already explained how a wide gulf separates fascism and socialism.

It’s the opposite, because in socialism the working classes are in control and production and distribution are collectivized, to satisfy the needs of all. In your fascist example, corporations are entrenched in the state, giving capitalists far more power without collectivizing production and distribution, retaining production for profit.

Collectivizing all production and distribution to satisfy the needs of everyone, ie socialism, is the answer. Not merging corporate and state power, which is the exact opposite.

By ratio, there are way more communists than on Reddit. There are three major groups, anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, and liberals, and each instance tends to have more of one or maybe 2 than the others. Getting a feel for instance culture goes a long way.

Yep, that’s why we need to have revolutionary optimism. Right now, incredible strides are being made by socialist countries like China to combat climate change and push for electrification and sustainability.