Having doubts on anti-revisionism and purges
First of all I’d like to say that I agree with a lot of Maos work on mass line, criticism, new democracy etc…
But what’s keeping me from being a Maoist is anti-revisionism. Of course I agree that revisionism should be fought, but how? Just executing everyone who deviates from Marxism isn’t a viable option, and if that is necessary for the system to function then maybe theres a problem with the system. I also feel like Stalinist purges were in a way problematic. I doubt that all party members that were purged were Nazis. Bukharin might’ve been a revisionist, but his core idea wasn’t problematic: socialism isn’t just poverty for everyone. So his ideas should’ve been adapted to Marxism instead of killing him.
I feel like anti-revisionism most of the times just end up being « youre not my exact type of socialism so you’ll be sent to a gulag ». Of course thats an exaggeration but it often becomes an excuse to fire someone or to make someone look bad until it doesn’t really mean anything anymore
Posted Jun 27, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC