In the words of Rudolf Bahro, leading German Green, "The Greens are to Marx what Einstein was to Newton."
I went into politics because I am an anarchist. "One thing is certain, I am not a Marxist" said Karl Marx. This is one of my favorite political quotes, as I am not a Marxist either!
"I gave 30 years of my life to Marxism."
"I gave 30 years of my life to Marxism. It is fucking bullshit."
An anarchist friend from Durham, England.
The same man said, "I hate all nationalism."
An anarchist friend from Durham, England.
The same man said, "I hate all nationalism."
I am not a Marxist.
I believe in social justice and equality. I would call myself a socialist or a social democrat.
But I also believe in individual human freedom and - broadly speaking - in democracy.
I don't believe in the inevitability of revolution, nor in "dialectical materialism". I don't believe that history is governed by extra-human rules. Neither do I believe that all conflict in history is related to class conflict; neither that all politics and all culture is fundamentally about class conflict; neither that all economic activity is determined by class conflict. I question the need for a violent revolution and the advisability of a violent revolution. I vehemently and totally reject the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the idea of any kind of dictatorship.
So I am not a Marxist.
But I also believe in individual human freedom and - broadly speaking - in democracy.
I don't believe in the inevitability of revolution, nor in "dialectical materialism". I don't believe that history is governed by extra-human rules. Neither do I believe that all conflict in history is related to class conflict; neither that all politics and all culture is fundamentally about class conflict; neither that all economic activity is determined by class conflict. I question the need for a violent revolution and the advisability of a violent revolution. I vehemently and totally reject the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the idea of any kind of dictatorship.
So I am not a Marxist.
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