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Originally Posted by Berrocscir
We have to take care not to confuse Marxism with Marxist-Leninism and its varients. In the UK some Marxists eg the Socialist Party of Great Britain do not see any role for the state and, like left-wing anarchists, want to see the means of production pass from the capitalists directly to the workers in their free collectives. Even most Leninists and trotskyists see only a transitional role for the workers' state (they claim it will have a radically different structure to the capitalist state) gradually ceeding power, they claim, to workers councils and other socialistic social-organisations.
But I agree, just because you are an anti-capitalist it does not follow that you are a Marxist or similar leftist.
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I get the impression that Trotskyists are not really interested in running or managing anything, they just like smashing things. In that way they are just ambitious Nihilists. And like the character from
The Big Lebowski said:
"Nihilists! F**k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."