Frederick Kruyd
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Posted - 2007.08.09 21:03:00 -
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I don't have to do such a silly bourgeois test to know what I am. A Marxist of the Bolshevist-Leninist (AKA Trotskyist) type. CWI member.
Anyways, here is the test result:
You scored as a Socialist/Marxist
You are very suspicious of Capitalism and corporate interests, but have faith in the labor force and the common man. You believe that it is the government's responsibility to make sure that everyone has enough and no one has too much.
Socialist/Marxist 100%
Environmentalist (Green) 83%
Anarchist 83%
Fascist 58%
Libertarian 33%
Liberal 33%
Conservative 33%
Centrist 0%
First of all, the text that explains that I beleve that "it is the government's responsibility to make sure that everyone has enough and no one has too much." is absurt. As a marxist I think the power of the current state apparatus (the capitalist state) should be demolished and then a workers' state be build. This state only functions for a short time to saveguard the revolution. When classes have been removed from society, this state will die down. Simply sayed, marxists beleve that in communism (the later stadium of socialism) the state will not exist.
"Translation: While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."
-V. I. Lenin
from: The State and Revolution (must read for peeps who would like to know the REAL marxist vieuw on the state)
It is importiant to keep in mind that the USSR and the other so called "communist states" were or are not communist by any genume marxist definition. They were not even socialist or moving toward socialism in the Trotskyist (and my) opinion. In stead they were counter-revolutionairy dictatorships. Aimed at the distruction of the gains of the socialist workers' revolution. These types of states are called "Stalinist". One should by all means avoid the mistake of thinking that those had anyting to do with marxism, socialism and let allone communism.
Many questions are rather silly for a marxist. Like: "Consolidation of power in the hands of one or a few is sometimes required for national security." I would totally agree on that one, being a marxist understanding class struggle. But then, as a marxist revolutionairy I would like to see national security non-existent, even nation-states should be distroyed in my opinion.
"Free markets flourish and function best when government involvement is minimal." Again I agree on this. But then I would like to see both the state and the "free" market disappear!
"Individual liberty should come second to the good of the collective citizenry." Clearly this quiz was made by someone who does not understand marxism. I guess when you agree with this you are seen as a marxist. Collective ownership of means of production will further individual freedom, much more then is the case under capitalism.
Oh and then, to the peeps who got "Fascist". Well the definition of "Fascism" is quite debateble. From what I know the marxist definition varies somewhat from the bourgeois (pro-capitalist) definiton).
Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
-L. D. Trotsky
Hurray for revolutionairy socialism!
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