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In my few months here, observing all the goings-on and random tripe people whip around the forums, I’ve settled into a little niche of an idea and/or problem.

That being, I don’t really give a shit about communism.

Alright, that’s actually not true, but I wanted to make a dramatic statement.

What I mean is, the issue of communism — that being, the issue of how a classless, stateless society will look far, far into the future — really doesn’t seem all that important to me, or to the "here and now".

Don’t get me wrong. I want communism. I want it bad. But I also don’t see the benefit in focusing on it as much as it has been focused upon. The way I see it, communism as a reality won’t really happen for quite some time — possibly hundreds of years — as it first requires the complete abolishing of the current way-of-things, the restructuring of society and the quite enormous task of withering away all of the old social and economic traditions which have prevailed in human civilization for sometimes hundreds of years.

That said, I’ve come to view myself as more of a revolutionary socialist than revolutionary communist; as in I believe more focus must be given to "ironing out" the theory and science of the transitional phases of socialism: How will we get there? Once we’re there, how will we maintain it? History has shown quite well that these are questions that need dire attention; the ultimate failures of the revolutionary movements in Russia and China are the biggest reasons I can think of. It just seems somewhat premature to be discussing what communism will look and feel like when we’ve got too much of a problem addressing what socialism should look and feel like.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’ve set as my goal the establishment of revolutionary socialism, not communism. It’s very unlikely that during my lifetime, or any of our lifetimes, we will ever see any serious attempt at a classless, stateless society. Leave the theorizing and calculations to those generations who grow up within socialism; they, afterall, will have a much more broadened sense of the issues of class struggle than we, by virtue of simply having been born, raised and educated under socialism rather than capitalism as we have all been. Let us focus on the immediate steps before us, and not peer into the distant, hazy future which none of us can ever possibly hope to predict.