I've always had some sympathy with various left communist theoretical traditions. The autonomists (if you can call them left communists) have a special place in my heart because they were my gateway drug to Marxism, though even when I was an autonomist I disliked Empire . Despite my [many] complaints about their theoretical positions, Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee are sometimes a guilty pleasure, at least they aren't a chore to read. And until recently, because now and then I read Endnotes and the "communization" folks, I enjoyed mining the work of Gilles Dauvé because, regardless of my significant disagreement with his overall political line, he always seemed to have insights that I found half-ways compelling. But then I encountered Dauvé's essay Alice in Monsterland , purely by accident. I mean, it's not like I'm out googling Dauvé all the time: I find his overall arguments unconvincing, I'm not a left communist (though admittedly sympat...
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist reflections