You’ll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings – they would see that she was very clearly one of the “authoritarian” socialists that they rail against so much.

You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.

They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.

If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them “tankies,” they would call their experiments “capitalism with a red flag.” And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why put the Black Panthers in here? 🤨

    The Black Panther platform, as I understand it, was:

    • We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
    • We want full employment for our people.
    • We want an end to the robbery by the Capitalists of our Black Community.
    • We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
    • We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
    • We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
    • We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
    • We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
    • We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
    • We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

    The Juche platform is:

    • We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
    • We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
    • We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
    • We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
    • We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung’s instructions.
    • We must strengthen the entire party’s ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
    • We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
    • We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill.
    • We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party, nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
    • We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.
    • Black AOC@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think the Panthers and the DPRK end up getting mentioned in the same breath a lot because of the communications they shared; though nothing I’ve studied ever suggested they outright adopted Juche. If someone’s got like-- hard and fast recollection that’s stored somewhere that they did, though; I’d very much like to see it if only for completion of my own understanding.

      • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They were at least very complimentary of Juche. This article has a few more quotes of primary sources (though it’s a bit anti-communist):

        https://archive.ph/QYo19

        The Juche ideal centers on relying on the creativity of the people to adapt to their situation. It’s hard to say they didn’t adopt Juche if they say they’re influenced by it, and Juche isn’t a rigid structure.

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The Black Panthers were complimentary of the DPRK, and had warm relations with them:

      https://archive.ph/QYo19

      I don’t think your quote is a summary that really shows what the BPP might’ve liked about Juche:

      The Juche idea was created on the basis of such a practical requirement of the Korean revolution. The revolution is a struggle to meet the masses’ desire for independence by enlisting their strength. It is a struggle of the masses to free themselves. When they are armed with the revolutionary idea and united into an organized political force, the masses can emerge victorious in the revolution. The duty of revolutionaries is to go among the popular masses, masters of the revolution. to educate, organize, and inspire them to a struggle. The revolutionary forces, too, should be trained from among the masses, and all problems arising in the revolutionary struggle should likewise be resolved in reliance on their wisdom and strength.

      (On the Juche Idea - Kim Jong-Il p7)

      I italicized the bit that stood out to me as most like the BPP.

      The DPRK is mostly viewed pretty well here, btw. It’s not an insult or a smear to align the Black Panthers with them. It’s a compliment.

        • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m not in a big argumentative mood today, so I’d like to avoid any big debates if that’s ok! :)

          Lemmygrad is mostly Marxist-Leninist communists, and the DPRK is usually seen as adapting MLism to their conditions.

          When you start to dig into the U$ understanding of the DPRK, you’ll start to see that most of the negative, weird, news we read about them is either attributed to anonymous sources or directly comes from the CIA. Most of the insane, hard to believe stuff is pretty likely to be untrue.

          The conditions in the DPRK aren’t perfect, but they’re a direct result of being under siege for something like 90 years, sanctioned (literally) to death by the U$, and having something like 80% of all standing structures obliterated during the Korean war. It’s hard, but it looks like they’re making the best of what they can.

          If you’re curious, I’m happy to try to dig up some of the source threads from here and reddit. They’ve been talked about before!