Hmm yes and no? I would say they wouldn’t argue for ‘reforming’ a broken by design system, but wouldn’t want people to suffer from a complete collapse without alternative systems in place to support them.
There’s a handful of anarchists who expect as much, and posadists, but nobody takes these unscientific approaches seriously. The job of communists is to build the mass movement such that democratic structures can seize power when the opportunity arises.
believe in direct armed confrontation with the state
And so on. The means are more important than the ends to determine if someone is a leftist extremist. The USSR used to say it was motivated by equality, it still was an authoritarian hell hole.
Question: would a far left extremist hope for the current downfall to “burn everything down” or is that a different group?
Hmm yes and no? I would say they wouldn’t argue for ‘reforming’ a broken by design system, but wouldn’t want people to suffer from a complete collapse without alternative systems in place to support them.
Depends on how pragmatic they are
There’s a handful of anarchists who expect as much, and posadists, but nobody takes these unscientific approaches seriously. The job of communists is to build the mass movement such that democratic structures can seize power when the opportunity arises.
Yeah, the real things that should be there are:
And so on. The means are more important than the ends to determine if someone is a leftist extremist. The USSR used to say it was motivated by equality, it still was an authoritarian hell hole.