u/Hollis4darkmagic

To let us begin, we need to look at the early Soviet Union. It struggled with a rising bureaucracy that took away the control from the workers which the workers fought hard to get. But what should have prevented this bureaucracy from raging its terror upon workers? There are many proposals and they all interconnect to make a worker state that is more human. Armed workforce, day jobs of party members, a voucher economy but what has not been explored enough is the psychological healing. Capitalism causes internal damage to the proletariat. The responsibility of the vanguard therefore is to ensure these wounds are healed or at least address that they are there.

The Self-Help Soviet- as ironic as the name might sound- is exactly what is a missing ingredient in the aftermath of capitalism and the advent of communism. So, all people are organised into the self help councils through their local workspace, school, retirement home and the people are given the time to just sit with one another and acknowledge each's struggles during capitalism and on the adjustment towards a new and better order. This will clear up mistrust and empower the workers as a collective.

For the party this- combined with their deep integration in the community- will lead to a better comprehension of the people's daily life and inner life. And the vanguard will share their labour of healing from capitalism both among each other and with the workers of their day job.

One thing to consider: Council Time Zone. An entire worker state that is collectively talking about their issues is physically vulnerable which is why it is needed to schedule these throughout the day so that no community is vulnerable and of course, critical cases require professional attention.

What was particularly convincing to me was this quote as to why Lenin had other things in mind than a burocratic nightmare that had become the USSR:

"Until the “higher” phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand the strictest

control by society and by the state over the measure of labor and the measure of

consumption; but this control must start with the expropriation of the capitalists, with

the establishment of workers' control over the capitalists, and must be exercised not

by a state of bureaucrats, but by a state of armed workers."

Which just shows to show how Stalinist ignore everything that is a fact.

Also as said I was an anarchist before and this is because stalinism scared me. It was so I started out watching a critique of Marvel's ties to the military industrial complex and then I watched a video titled "You are not Immune to Propaganda" by none other than Second Thought (which is pretty ironic since his videos are propaganda)

And while I am not a cult-lik Trotsky worshipper atleast he knew that state burocracy was not the intention behind communism. So I am not well-read on theory yet, I have just recently read "The State and Revolution" which is the first non-fiction book I ever read. I like this community far more since atleast the people are honest about the Soviet Union (unlike the stalinists) and realistic.