A reply to a troll who stole my space to promote his crap

From the article; 

"India- THE MAOIST COMMUNIST CENTRE CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY"

Anonymous said:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4Ev7ACWJWKaxGk9RMB2oMLefeA8ldgO/view

For some reason my blogging system refuses to let me post this as a comment under the two comments that were left. I don’t understand machines like this one and I have been extremely frustrated trying to use it. I would have preferred to just post this as a comment under the other two that were left at the end of the above article. The only way to post this seems to be to post it as a post. Blogspot is owned by Google and today their system sucks. I can’t believe this system is so screwed up. If I had known how bad blogspot is I would have looked for somewhere else to post these articles. So there is my reply:  

I suppose there are those among us who consider me to be a liberal or anarchist. I do believe in Freedom of speech. I’m a stickler for it. I was in Cuba this summer and they do not value that freedom as I do.

It is for that reason I don’t just erase the comments of those who disagree with our writers. Most of the blogs I know won’t allow comments to be posted until they are checked out. Many of the blogsters I know will delete blogs if they are right wing trolls or jut plain obnoxious people.

I allow people to leave comments with out censorship or being pre-checked out. I have had trolls leave ridiculous rightwing comments that many Marxist would never tolerate. I do tolerate them because I fee it is more important to allow people to have freedom of speech than take the chance that they will be censored. I have had people call me and my people “faggots.” And when I reposted those comments on Facebook, to show the crudity I have endured I was censored by the folks at Facebook for posting comments I didn’t even really make. Supposedly I was posting comments that would offend people—but there weren’t my comments. When a person is dedicated to free speech this kind of thing seems to happen.

I have deleted comments that were pure insults without any political points. Even I have my limits. But lately I came across some left wing comments that where just as combative and troubling as right wing trolls. This latest commenter left a link to a PDF file called: “Marxist-Leninism vs. Maoism,” by Biswajit Basu. That is the name of the article and its author. But who posted it? Anonymous –that brave troller who is afraid to leave us any kind of name—not even a nom de guerre. That guy lacks imagination so he does not even give us a fake name. Apparently this brave individual felt it was important to go to a Maoist blog and attack its ideology. Dialectical Materialism vs. metaphysical Idealism was the headline kicker of this article.

For those of us who don’t fully understand what those big words really mean—it could also mean concrete realism vs. abstract idealism or concrete reality vs. ideas. Basu seems to be saying that Maoism is based more on the ideas or idealism of a dreamer rather than concrete realism. The kind of Marxist Leninism he champions is based on a scientific political system that lacks any need for challenges. In such a system there is no need for democracy or for political struggle in general.

This document is almost a whole book. Rather than taking it apart piece by piece, we can start from the point that we ARE Marxist-Leninists. That is how we started out. We are not vs. M-L, we have added to it. We consider our work as a vast improvement to M-L. We did not demolish it, we added to it. There are examples of working M-L governments such as Cuba. It works just fine. But Maoism leads to more democracy. People under Maoism take a greater role in their government. Let’s look at Communist Party of India (Maoists) and their view on Maoism, as seen through there site Banned Thought:

New, Third and Higher Stage of Marxism

Mao Tsetung elaborated many theses on a whole series of vital questions of revolution. But Maoism is not just the sum total of Mao's great contributions. It is the comprehensive and all-round development of Marxism-Leninism to a new and higher stage. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is an integral whole; it is the ideology of the proletariat synthesized and developed to new stages, from Marxism to Marxism-Leninism to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, by Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin (Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ленин) and Mao Tsetung (毛泽东), on the basis of the experience of the proletariat and mankind in class struggle, the struggle for production and scientific experiment. It is the invincible weapon which enables the proletariat to understand the world and change it through revolution. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is a universally applicable, living and scientific ideology, constantly developing and being further enriched through its application in making revolution as well as through the advance of human knowledge generally. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the enemy of all forms of revisionism and dogmatism. It is all-powerful because it is true.

This is all just basic Maoism. It explains the essence between Maoism and those who are Marxist-Leninist,  but reject such Maoism as it has moved the Marxist left to the next level.

As for Soviet Socialism, I have never been a proponent to that kind of Marxism. As that system fell, I now realize they contributed much to third world leftism. I have written on the collapse of Soviet Socialism;

Are we really better off without a Cold War? Part 1,

Are we really better off without a Cold War? Part 2.