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Questions regarding ultras, anarchists, trotskyists etc. (lemmygrad.ml)
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A couple of questions because I'm still uneducated on these things:

  • Why do anarchists hate Marxists?
  • Are anarchists and ultras the same thing?
  • Are Trotskyists ultras and do they dislike Marxists?
  • What are the differences between Trotskyists, Maoists and Hoxhaists? Are any of them comrades?
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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would be veering into armchair psychology trying to decipher maoists lol. but I remember one thing the Shining Path did was hang dead dogs from lam posts in Lima when Deng was elected... in China. Gives you an idea of who they are.

Doesn't help that there's also maoism, marxism-leninism-maoism, and marxism-leninism-maoism principally maoism (that last one is what gonzalo claimed iirc). maoism also existed in china as what we call mao zedong thought, note that the CPC is not claiming maoism anymore (i.e. MZT) but is officially following socialism with chinese characteristics.

I'm lucky enough that I don't know any maoists irl (conversely I know of at least one hoxhaist in my old party), for my safety I would never want to be around anyone calling themselves MLM. Not even as a sectarian thing just literally would not trust these people whatsoever.

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me neither. I am not sure what would happen if I met a Maoist in real life (I might explode from the awkwardness lol).

[–] znsh@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't met a Trotskyist, Maoist or Hoxhaist ever, not that they would necessary identify themselves as that. But I have met plenty of "anarchists", mostly punks with no clear ideology, they were nice and kind, probably because they didn't have a clear ideology of anarchism lol.

[–] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Maoists are probably the least outwardly weird... until you get to know them, and then their weirdness comes out (like being weirdly fond of Gonzalo).