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half a year sounds like an impressively accelerated ultraleft deviation

It feels like an eternity though, armchair communism is dullll as hell

What kind of ultraleft deviation?

I rode the council communism (and related anarcho-whateverist appendices) hype train for a bit. A static reading of Capital left me with the impression that exploitation itself is the problem, and once we do away with it we've won socialism. From that POV, struggling to build something in the world as it exists is always already a "state capitalist deviation"; the only acceptable course of action is the typically anarchist immediate abolition of the current state of things.

I myself am quite close to Kropotkin in my views, but I would not consider myself a left deviationist. I think the best text to show people the error of left deviationism is Engels� The Housing Question. I think the Finnish Bolshevik also used it to that end, though he himself is a bit of a right deviationist. How long have you been part of the movement?

Yeah I'm using the term "deviation" loosely here -- I meant it in the sense that my political convictions were an active obstacle to becoming politically active in a communist party.

By movement, do you mean a serious communist party? Since 2017, give or take. There never was an ultraleft movement to become a part of, they tend to not move too much.

� wrote: "Yeah I'm using the term "deviation" loosely here -- I meant it in the sense that my political convictions were an active obstacle to becoming politically active in a communist party.

By movement, ..."
By movement I meant just being a leftist. I’ve been one since 2019 but I’m not part of any party. The New Communist Party never responded to my application.