The Communal Cult
The Communal Cult
I have been thinking a lot about how genuinely social-revolutionary communalism, libertarian municipalism, and democratic confederalism actually are. They do not just ask for a kinder version of the present world. They ask us to imagine a society that exists after capitalism, after domination, after the centralized state, after hierarchy has stopped being treated as the natural structure of human […]
Social liberals often endorse incremental reforms that leave the deeper architecture of exploitation intact. They champion diversity initiatives in corporate boardrooms without questioning capitalism itself; they support modest police oversight while rejecting demands to radically shrink or abolish carceral systems. Their solutions treat symptoms, not causes. Closely tied to this is a liberal fetishization of civility and “both sides” dialogue. […]
Among contemporary left-wing movements, one of the most persistent yet troubling trends is what is often called “tankie” socialism (or colloquially, “tankheism”). This term broadly refers to an uncritical, authoritarian strand of socialism that romanticizes historical regimes such as the Soviet Union under Stalin, Maoist China, or other state socialist projects — regardless of their well-documented abuses. It often defends […]
