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Reversedragon: IV (Fourth) versus Zv (Zinovievism)

2026-08-10T03:58:56Z

IV (Fourth) versus Zv (Zinovievism)

Reversedragon: retelling Deltarune

2026-08-07T05:02:23Z

retelling Deltarune

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	I have to confess that because I learned Marxism in such an oddly specific way — skipping over some of Marx and Engels to focus on Lenin and Stalin's era, applying meta-Marxist models to news events or generalized models of historical periods, comparing everything to the conflict between Stalin's party and early Trotskyism — there is a lot of basic Marxist terminology I don't know that I will frequently "reinvent" in different words and become confused "why no Marxist has ever talked about this" when actually there is at least one person who has. For the longest time I was confused on what a {{dfn\|cadre}} was referring to even though I actually had the basic idea jotted down under words like "Lattice model", "filtration", and "Marxist theorist". I understood the concept of setting down "Marxist theorists" to expand organizations ("going into the marsh") and how they could only do it if they had a good Materialist understanding of how historical situations functioned, but the way I tended to see things was to point out Marxist theorists or advanced workers and categorize them into swatch colors by their level of knowledge, so that over a region of space "Lattices" were forming based on having a frame of red theorists or a frame of orange theorists rising out of the background mass of blue-aligned people. I think what my experiences have taught me is that there actually are multiple ways to learn Marxism and that applying models to really understand how the models behave can be more helpful than just memorizing things. It's one thing to know a list of events and what terms mean, and it's another thing to be someone who is good enough at Marxist theory to look at some new chewed-up form of terminology that has come out of workers who haven't read theory but do have practical experience and say, "oh wait, this is actually talking about Marxist concepts X, Y, and Z, so the workers really do know what they're doing; I'm going to open up my wiki entry on Marxist cadres and write down the phrase 'Lattice model'". I'm personally fine with going back and learning the traditional terms for the purpose of making any articles I write make more sense, but I think this is an important thing to remember in terms of identifying what class consciousness or consciousness that can form a Fourth International looks like out in the field. Proletarian consciousness is almost "mathematical" in a way, existing a bit below the level of language and more in the form of {{em\|imagery}} of objects interacting materially.		I have to confess that because I learned Marxism in such an oddly specific way — skipping over some of Marx and Engels to focus on Lenin and Stalin's era, applying meta-Marxist models to news events or generalized models of historical periods, comparing everything to the conflict between Stalin's party and early Trotskyism — there is a lot of basic Marxist terminology I don't know that I will frequently "reinvent" in different words and become confused "why no Marxist has ever talked about this" when actually there is at least one person who has. For the longest time I was confused on what a {{dfn\|cadre}} was referring to even though I actually had the basic idea jotted down under words like "Lattice model", "filtration", and "Marxist theorist". I understood the concept of setting down "Marxist theorists" to expand organizations ("going into the marsh") and how they could only do it if they had a good Materialist understanding of how historical situations functioned, but the way I tended to see things was to point out Marxist theorists or advanced workers and categorize them into swatch colors by their level of knowledge, so that over a region of space "Lattices" were forming based on having a frame of red theorists or a frame of orange theorists rising out of the background mass of blue-aligned people. I think what my experiences have taught me is that there actually are multiple ways to learn Marxism and that applying models to really understand how the models behave can be more helpful than just memorizing things. It's one thing to know a list of events and what terms mean, and it's another thing to be someone who is good enough at Marxist theory to look at some new chewed-up form of terminology that has come out of workers who haven't read theory but do have practical experience and say, "oh wait, this is actually talking about Marxist concepts X, Y, and Z, so the workers really do know what they're doing; I'm going to open up my wiki entry on Marxist cadres and write down the phrase 'Lattice model'". I'm personally fine with going back and learning the traditional terms for the purpose of making any articles I write make more sense, but I think this is an important thing to remember in terms of identifying what class consciousness or consciousness that can form a Fourth International looks like out in the field. Proletarian consciousness is almost "mathematical" in a way, existing a bit below the level of language and more in the form of {{em\|imagery}} of objects interacting materially.

	In this sense, Western-Marxists in the orbit of Mark Fisher and Stuart Hall who will try to act like the arts and the overall phenomenon of all fictional or non-fictional media are critically important to understanding society and the spread of clear versus unclear forms of consciousness (bourgeois ideology versus Materialism) are not entirely wrong, because in a tiny, vanishingly-small fraction of cases, progressive factions within society will express legitimate Materialist knowledge in highly metaphorical forms either because they don't know how to better express it or because any concrete form of expressing it has been so forbidden this is the only form they can get away with saying out loud. Here my mind goes to the incident in Lenin's writings where underground publications in Russia kept quietly talking about roosters and suns. This is an old practice that dates back to the times of alchemy with alchemists quietly hiding chemical equations in mythical pictures, but it can still be seen today in some remote corners of the internet. One thing I have increasingly become convinced of recently is that the more fantasy works containing "superstructural fantasy worlds" are created to talk about LGBT+ self-discovery and social circles, the closer each of these works inches toward Communism, and even toward Trotskyism — while early works in this genre like {{book\|The Chronicles of Narnia}} and {{film\|Toy Story}} had absolutely nothing to do with either gay people or Marxism, something seems to have happened by the time LGBT people found {{film\|The Wizard of Oz}} where they all started slowly realizing that adventure narratives as described in Jung are something of an illusion and the quest of those three protagonists to become "someone better" was only a quest to better understand the existing reality of living in their own material bodies. By 2017, gay and transgender people had caused entire console role-playing games to exist which were essentially about rejecting the heroic adventure narrative monomyth as a model of character development and {{em\|embracing historical materialism}} as the only way characters can possibly "win" at history in the midst of a cruel, godless reality. You'd have to see it to believe it, but as a recent chapter of the series came out I was floored by the messages that were accidentally being conveyed by {{game\|Undertale}} and {{game\|Deltarune}}. The vast majority of people casually reviewing these games online had not been able to pick up on the dense themes the second game was actually burying inside itself, but when I saw the fifth chapter I could tell the concepts internally driving the narrative were in fact more complex than those people thought. To make a long story shorter, {{game\|Deltarune}} is adapting "Theses on Feuerbach" — or at least Feuerbach's {{book\|Essence of Christianity}}, one of the two — and because queer people are so tired of capitalism they all lined up for an essentially-Communist console RPG. I am not sure {{game\|Deltarune}}'s writer even knows what he's done. But the closer you look at the story you start to see it as a fable about how the whole industrial world is now just one big sea of competing islands of proletarians, or islands of small businesses, and living in it is pain, and everyone is tired of it, and all the islands need to join up and stop believing the internal mythology that says they need to be separate, or else the world will face the common ruin of everything. It doesn't {{em\|state}} "on a planetary scale" but within the specific narrative context everything appears in it is so close to saying it that I don't think that matters. {{game\|Deltarune}} is the most thinly-veiled appeal toward Trotskyism I have ever seen capitalism produce and it has really made me feel like the link between LGBT+ people and Materialism in everyday life should be studied more. The United States has very few people friendly to "Marxism", "Leninism", or even "Materialism", but it does now have a shocking number of people who are friendly to {{film\|The Matrix}} and are now essentially using these films and other versions of the same narrative as a Marxist reading list. As strange as it is to say it out loud, I feel like the ICFI may need to study the underlying processes that produced that.		In this sense, Western-Marxists in the orbit of Mark Fisher and Stuart Hall who will try to act like the arts and the overall phenomenon of all fictional or non-fictional media are critically important to understanding society and the spread of clear versus unclear forms of consciousness (bourgeois ideology versus Materialism) are not entirely wrong, because in a tiny, vanishingly-small fraction of cases, progressive factions within society will express legitimate Materialist knowledge in highly metaphorical forms either because they don't know how to better express it or because any concrete form of expressing it has been so forbidden this is the only form they can get away with saying out loud. Here my mind goes to the incident in Lenin's writings where underground publications in Russia kept quietly talking about roosters and suns. This is an old practice that dates back to the times of alchemy with alchemists quietly hiding chemical equations in mythical pictures, but it can still be seen today in some remote corners of the internet. One thing I have increasingly become convinced of recently is that the more fantasy works containing "superstructural fantasy worlds" are created to talk about LGBT+ self-discovery and social circles, the closer each of these works inches toward Communism, and even toward Trotskyism — while early works in this genre like {{book\|The Chronicles of Narnia}} and {{film\|Toy Story}} had absolutely nothing to do with either gay people or Marxism, something seems to have happened by the time LGBT people found {{film\|The Wizard of Oz}} where they all started slowly realizing that adventure narratives as described in Jung are something of an illusion and the quest of those three protagonists to become "someone better" was only a quest to better understand the existing reality of living in their own material bodies. By 2017, gay and transgender people had caused entire console role-playing games to exist which were essentially about rejecting the heroic adventure narrative monomyth as a model of character development and {{em\|embracing historical materialism}} as the only way characters can possibly "win" at history in the midst of a cruel, godless reality. You'd have to see it to believe it, but as a recent chapter of the series came out I was floored by the messages that were accidentally being conveyed by {{game\|Undertale}} and {{game\|Deltarune}}. The vast majority of people casually reviewing these games online had not been able to pick up on the dense themes the second game was actually burying inside itself, but when I saw the fifth chapter I could tell the concepts internally driving the narrative were in fact more complex than those people thought. To make a long story shorter, {{game\|Deltarune}} is adapting "Theses on Feuerbach" — or at least Feuerbach's {{book\|Essence of Christianity}}, one of the two — and because queer people are so tired of capitalism they all lined up for an essentially-Communist console RPG. I am not sure {{game\|Deltarune}}'s writer even knows what he's done. But the closer you look at the story you start to see it as a fable about how the whole industrial world is now just one big sea of competing islands of proletarians, or islands of small businesses, and living in it is pain, and everyone is tired of it, and all the islands need to join up and stop believing the internal mythology that says they need to be separate, or else the world will face the common ruin of everything.<ref name="dr5"/> It doesn't {{em\|state}} "on a planetary scale" but within the specific narrative context everything appears in it is so close to saying it that I don't think that matters. {{game\|Deltarune}} is the most thinly-veiled appeal toward Trotskyism I have ever seen capitalism produce and it has really made me feel like the link between LGBT+ people and Materialism in everyday life should be studied more. The United States has very few people friendly to "Marxism", "Leninism", or even "Materialism", but it does now have a shocking number of people who are friendly to {{film\|The Matrix}} and are now essentially using these films and other versions of the same narrative as a Marxist reading list. As strange as it is to say it out loud, I feel like the ICFI may need to study the underlying processes that produced that.

	I do have my own thoughts. Among the world's populations, the shape of a population predisposes it to certain formulations of Marxism. Some of these correlations amount to failures in consciousness — for instance, populations close to the shape of a newly-formed kingdom will tend to falsely assume that characteristics of feudal societies are either a normal baseline state of being or unique to them. But there are other populations that are doing something more interesting. Countries that develop First World capitalisms tend to eventually develop LGBT+ movements or subcultures, and each time these populations appear they begin to link together across the world and share the same experiences back and forth, slowly forgetting that they even belong to different countries, and becoming confused on why there isn't an equal amount of progress on their issues in all countries. It used to be believed, especially in the Third World, that LGBT "communities" mostly represented a political movement of people who did not understand Marxism linking together across the world to try to reach capitalists, who all just happened to be gay. But now it has come to be better understood that people can form a new population at any time without their separation having started for economic reasons, and that the shape of LGBT populations is really best described as a plurality of small minority subpopulations isolated by social processes and with economic hardship forced on them from the outside that have joined together through new processes such as the internet to attempt to form something similar but not identical to a nationality.		I do have my own thoughts. Among the world's populations, the shape of a population predisposes it to certain formulations of Marxism. Some of these correlations amount to failures in consciousness — for instance, populations close to the shape of a newly-formed kingdom will tend to falsely assume that characteristics of feudal societies are either a normal baseline state of being or unique to them. But there are other populations that are doing something more interesting. Countries that develop First World capitalisms tend to eventually develop LGBT+ movements or subcultures, and each time these populations appear they begin to link together across the world and share the same experiences back and forth, slowly forgetting that they even belong to different countries, and becoming confused on why there isn't an equal amount of progress on their issues in all countries. It used to be believed, especially in the Third World, that LGBT "communities" mostly represented a political movement of people who did not understand Marxism linking together across the world to try to reach capitalists, who all just happened to be gay. But now it has come to be better understood that people can form a new population at any time without their separation having started for economic reasons, and that the shape of LGBT populations is really best described as a plurality of small minority subpopulations isolated by social processes and with economic hardship forced on them from the outside that have joined together through new processes such as the internet to attempt to form something similar but not identical to a nationality.
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	<ref name="gs">Here is what I remember learning about the Russian Revolution in a United States grade school. Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky existed. There was a Communist manifesto. The Nazis did a bunch of awful things. World War II ended for unclear reasons. Trotsky was assassinated. Five-year plans. Ayn Rand's writings are important allegorical literature. We actually didn't read {{book\|Animal Farm}}. We did read {{book\|The Giver}}. I bizarrely do not remember any lessons about the famine in Ukraine despite how much people talk about it now. Sławomir Rawicz walked the whole way out of the Soviet Union, or at least retold a bunch of other people's stories. (Note: he actually fled Poland. I was stunned, as a preteen, to discover on Wikipedia that the book probably wasn't true.) I learned about the opposition between Mao and the Kuomintang only because I took an AP world history class.</ref>		<ref name="gs">Here is what I remember learning about the Russian Revolution in a United States grade school. Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky existed. There was a Communist manifesto. The Nazis did a bunch of awful things. World War II ended for unclear reasons. Trotsky was assassinated. Five-year plans. Ayn Rand's writings are important allegorical literature. We actually didn't read {{book\|Animal Farm}}. We did read {{book\|The Giver}}. I bizarrely do not remember any lessons about the famine in Ukraine despite how much people talk about it now. Sławomir Rawicz walked the whole way out of the Soviet Union, or at least retold a bunch of other people's stories. (Note: he actually fled Poland. I was stunned, as a preteen, to discover on Wikipedia that the book probably wasn't true.) I learned about the opposition between Mao and the Kuomintang only because I took an AP world history class.</ref>

			<ref name="dr5">Deltarune chapter 1: protagonists Kris and Susie fall into school closet and discover that all common objects or products (classroom toys) can be seen either as literal material objects or through elaborate distorted narratives containing Good Guys and Bad Guys.<br/>
			Deltarune chapter 2: Kris and Susie enter fantasy world ruled by computer. Computer queen proclaims ambition to expand computer world over outside world. She is told if multiple fantasy worlds keep expanding they will {{em\|destroy}} the outside world.<br/>
			Deltarune chapter 3: Kris and Susie enter fantasy world ruled by TV show director. TV director wants corporate product to displace outside world instead of becoming obsolete. Susie is told she forgot fantasy object-people inside dream-worlds aren't the real world.<br/>
			Deltarune chapter 4: Kris and Susie learn about local religious prophecy predicting the day their entire world will be torn to shreds in a great crisis.<br/>
			Deltarune chapter 5: Kris and Susie face flower that has turned into person, who is upset that various separate fantasy worlds formed from material objects are in competition to exist. Flower man attempts to stop Kris and Susie so that neither fantasy world will end. Flower man is {{spoiler\|sliced apart by eve of great global disaster\|title=spoilers for Deltarune Chapter 5 ending}}.</ref>

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Reversedragon: intro; networkism / proofread

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Reversedragon: wavemachine logic / "why defending Trotsky" / proofread

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Reversedragon: typo

2026-08-01T05:21:39Z

typo

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	<ref name="iba">Among other things, I think there are some meta-Marxist concepts that could lead to a great narrative card game. Games like {{game\|Magic: the Gathering}} and its "forgotten brother" {{game\|Arcmage}} always assume that the civilization or army you set up will be something similar to feudalism, but wouldn't it be more interesting if a game could tell the story of multiple historical periods or systems competing to exist? I think it would. I knew this was far too off-topic to put in the text. But, in case I write any pages on it worth finding later, I call my card simulation concept the "Aurora system".</ref>		<ref name="iba">Among other things, I think there are some meta-Marxist concepts that could lead to a great narrative card game. Games like {{game\|Magic: the Gathering}} and its "forgotten brother" {{game\|Arcmage}} always assume that the civilization or army you set up will be something similar to feudalism, but wouldn't it be more interesting if a game could tell the story of multiple historical periods or systems competing to exist? I think it would. I knew this was far too off-topic to put in the text. But, in case I write any pages on it worth finding later, I call my card simulation concept the "Aurora system".</ref>

	<ref name="wm">I gave a rather simplified version of wavemachine logic in the "swatch analysis" section. What it was really designed for is modeling the interactions of material ideas to produce other material ideas, such that you can lay out an interaction between two Ideals that are claimed to model a real situation and then do a materialist inversion on the immaterial ideas to turn them into material ideas. The full version of wavemachine logic is vaguely inspired by how quantum superpositions are used to model fundamental-particle interactions (hence the name "wave machine"), and includes the ability to take two fuzzily defined concepts and lay all their known characteristics out on a grid in order to get clues about what the outcome could be, much like a Punnet square will put two forms of a gene on either side of a grid to generate genotypes that are then calculated into visual traits through observed rules of organism biology. In this way, wavemachine logic can be used either in a more traditional way to combine two second-order propositions to generate syllogisms without necessarily needing the "wave machine" grid, or in its own way of combining two first-order objects that appear inside propositions on a grid to guess what might happen when they interact. I am still working out how to formalize the rules of propositions combining onto each other two or more at a time such that propositions inside one philosophy can uncover obvious points of incoherence inside another philosophy, but there will presumably be specific rules to help with that too.</wm>		<ref name="wm">I gave a rather simplified version of wavemachine logic in the "swatch analysis" section. What it was really designed for is modeling the interactions of material ideas to produce other material ideas, such that you can lay out an interaction between two Ideals that are claimed to model a real situation and then do a materialist inversion on the immaterial ideas to turn them into material ideas. The full version of wavemachine logic is vaguely inspired by how quantum superpositions are used to model fundamental-particle interactions (hence the name "wave machine"), and includes the ability to take two fuzzily defined concepts and lay all their known characteristics out on a grid in order to get clues about what the outcome could be, much like a Punnet square will put two forms of a gene on either side of a grid to generate genotypes that are then calculated into visual traits through observed rules of organism biology. In this way, wavemachine logic can be used either in a more traditional way to combine two second-order propositions to generate syllogisms without necessarily needing the "wave machine" grid, or in its own way of combining two first-order objects that appear inside propositions on a grid to guess what might happen when they interact. I am still working out how to formalize the rules of propositions combining onto each other two or more at a time such that propositions inside one philosophy can uncover obvious points of incoherence inside another philosophy, but there will presumably be specific rules to help with that too.</ref>

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Reversedragon: wavemachine logic / proofread

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Reversedragon: consolidate sections

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Reversedragon: Reclaiming the narrative / postmodernism

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Reversedragon: The nature of time

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The nature of time

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-<div class="bop bottom"><h3><time datetime="2026-07-09T07:32:47H">Networkism, capitalism, Stalinism, and socialism</time></h3>
+<div class="bop top"><h3><time datetime="2026-07-16T07:02:36H">The nature of time</time></h3>
 Marxism is more of a top-down movement than anybody would like to believe<br/>
 it always begins with clusters of brilliant people who perceive something everybody else didn't, not at groups of workers. the "great men" that appear in Marxism are illusions caused by people forgetting all the second- and third-tier men immediately connected to them, who probably exist at a factor of at least 10 or 100 for every presumed "great" man. Marxist theorists are a particular historical phenomenon which is separate from the activity of workers and transforms what would be a blue or strawberry movement into a crimson movement. this is what leads to a lot of the pain within Marxism as a whole and conflict between different versions of Marxism. Marxist movements resemble any republic ever created in that there will be a layer of talented representatives that people align themselves with in order to form a large society. hypothetically, this body of theorists could be Stalin's party, Mao's party, Kim Il-sung's party, Marx and Engels and a handful of people in Europe, early Trotskyism, or any number of things. if an era of socialism could ever actually develop and solidify, the conflict between these groups of theorists would become unimportant. on the other side of creating the workers' state, what is eventually supposed to happen is that central parties and the Communist International simply stop doing anything because most things at the populational scale and at the international scale respectively have already been decided, everyone teaches the previous decisions, and for the most part only local decisions are required any more. the possibility of the state withering away is actually a natural consequence of creating a scientific society and making national policies objective rather than a matter of subjective opinion. but, this creates the problem of shifting conflicts between groups of people over arbitrary local culture and which arbitrary local cultures should get to conquer each other up to the layer of theorists who have to figure out the objective answers to national and international questions. in theory, the layer of theorists should be sorting itself by ability and the most talented theorists should be rising to the top and defeating the theorists with worse models, but the correct answers for each country and the world should be surfacing anyway; in practice, everyone in the layer of theorists becomes similar in social status, and all the theorists begin clustering and fighting each other over arbitrary local culture inasmuch as they do not have the complete answer to particular world problems. the problem which was evident among the clergy and among bourgeois representatives as they grouped themselves into center-Liberal and Tory parties has repeated itself with Marxist theorists. Marxist theorists are limited in their ability to perceive reality by their transient social status of being the most important people in a particular region until other people in their population can take over, thus figures like Stalin or Mao will show up that make significant errors and are unable to recognize other versions of Marxism with _correct findings_ as correct. this will also happen when clusters of Trotskyist groups become free. each one of them has the _incentive_ to believe it's the "real" Fourth International even if it isn't, because the sad truth is that if they all believe they're the real one long enough and simply perservere and try to collect people before the other ones do, it _will_ be the case that one of them will inevitably outlast the others. the quality of Marxist theory within an emerging International is not necessarily as important ~~on the larger stage of history~~ to the universe as the groups simply happening to guess the correct series of actions for the groups to physically survive. so, if a particular cluster of organizations happens not to have been destroyed yet, it will probably assume that whatever model of the world it currently holds must be the most correct theory there is.

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	** MN — Marx & Engels; early Marxism.		** MN — Marx & Engels; early Marxism.
	** MN — Lenin, when not clearly speaking against Trotsky.		** MN — Lenin, when not clearly speaking against Trotsky.
	** MD — alliances of Stalinists and Trotskyists. Mostly something that only happened before the 1930s, doesn't really happen now.		** MD — alliances of Stalinists and Trotskyists. Mostly something that only happened before the 1930s; doesn't really happen now.<!--
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	* Crimson / red [code ML] — early versions of Marxism, or Stalinist parties. I assigned this based on the most common meaning of "Reds" in English-speaking countries.		* Crimson / red [code ML] — early versions of Marxism, or Stalinist parties. I assigned this based on the most common meaning of "Reds" in English-speaking countries.
	** ML — Stalin's Marxism; Stalinism.		** ML — Stalin's Marxism; Stalinism.
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	** MS — Hoxhaism. (Etymology: Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism.)		** MS — Hoxhaism. (Etymology: Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism.)
	** MZ — early Maoism, before Deng Xiaoping.		** MZ — early Maoism, before Deng Xiaoping.
	** NMZ — North American Maoism.		** NMZ — North American Maoism.<!--
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	* Orange [code IV] — Trotskyism.		* Orange [code IV] — Trotskyism.
	** I originally ~~made~~ Trotskyism orange under the assumption it was a distortion of mainstream Marxism.		** IV — coherent Leninist theory which is internationalist. Trotsky; Cannon; I'd tentatively grant David North this code at least as far as I can tell. (Etymology: "Fourth".)
	** Now ~~this swatch~~ has become more like a badge of correctness~~, especially inside the context of Trotskyism~~. Deeply revisionist parties are simply marked in blue or strawberry (or possibly red), not orange.		*** I originally gave Trotskyism the orange swatch under the assumption it was a distortion of mainstream Marxism. Now it has become more like a badge of correctness. Deeply revisionist parties that attempt to place themselves inside Trotskyism are simply marked in blue or strawberry (or possibly red), not orange.
			** Zv — revisionist forms of Trotskyism, particularly groups claiming to be Trotskyist that have minimal theoretical content beyond "all revolutions are inherently good". (Etymology: "Zinovievism". This is a meta-Marxist jargon term meaning everything I just said.)
			*** Early on I classified the "Zv" code as orange because I had filed it under "IV". Now I think a lot of instances of it are actually blue. This is fine; philosophy codes can have different swatch colors as they become part of different antagonisms.<!--
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	* Strawberry / peach [code DX] — Marxisms based on eclectic Materialism, or revisionist versions of Marxism that are in transition backward but only slowly.		* Strawberry / peach [code DX] — Marxisms based on eclectic Materialism, or revisionist versions of Marxism that are in transition backward but only slowly.
	** DX — Deng Xiaoping Thought (China).		** DX — Deng Xiaoping Thought (China).
	** JC — Juche-socialism (North Korea).		** JC — Juche-socialism (North Korea).
	** W — Western Marxism; Louis Althusser, Mark Fisher, etc.		** W — Western Marxism; Louis Althusser, Mark Fisher, etc.
	** W — Gramscianism; Antonio Gramsci's flawed but recognizable interpretation of Leninism.		** W — Gramscianism; Antonio Gramsci's flawed but recognizable interpretation of Leninism.<!--
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	* Mauve / buttertree, safou [code BP] — I gave BlackPantherism its own swatch because it seemed different but I didn't entirely understand the details. So far I haven't used this swatch for anything else.		* Mauve / buttertree, safou [code BP] — I gave BlackPantherism its own swatch because it seemed different but I didn't entirely understand the details. So far I haven't used this swatch for anything else.
	* Charcoal / black — anarchism and pre-agrarian societies.		* Charcoal / black — anarchism and pre-agrarian societies.
	** A — anarchism, or philosophy from tribal societies that strongly resembles anarchism.		** A — anarchism, or philosophy from tribal societies that strongly resembles anarchism.
	** Aqr — magic ritual or neo-paganism. (Etymology: "age of Aquarius".) Putting this in charcoal isn't to smear anarchism as much as to highlight the loose connection between anarchist philosophy and tribal societies.		** Aqr — magic ritual or neo-paganism. (Etymology: "age of Aquarius".) Putting this in charcoal isn't to smear anarchism as much as to highlight the loose connection between anarchist philosophy and tribal societies.<!--
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	* Sky blue / blue [code ES] — bourgeois philosophies.		* Sky blue / blue [code ES] — bourgeois philosophies.
	** ES — generic code for bourgeois philosophies. Originally stood for "Existentialist-Structuralist tradition", my slightly opaque nickname for a large cluster of academic bourgeois philosophies that I now think are better described as "non-economic agorisms" or "blue anarchisms".		** ES — generic code for bourgeois philosophies. Originally stood for "Existentialist-Structuralist tradition", my slightly opaque nickname for a large cluster of academic bourgeois philosophies that I now think are better described as "non-economic agorisms" or "blue anarchisms", or more generically, "pseudo-left philosophies".
	** Ag — agorism; philosophy directly describing non-economic markets.		** Ag — agorism; philosophy directly describing non-economic markets.
	** LR — Liberal-republicanism. Covers writers like Thomas Jefferson, etc.		** LR — Liberal-republicanism. Covers writers like Thomas Jefferson, etc.
			*** LR / II — early-1900s Menshevism. Menshevism technically has an obvious symbol waiting for it, "II", but the central themes in either kind of text are so similar I genuinely haven't had much need to distinguish them.
	** IK — Kantianism; Kantian ethics, logic, or political theory.		** IK — Kantianism; Kantian ethics, logic, or political theory.
	** Aa — Freudian psychoanalysis; Jungianism, Lacanianism. (Etymology: Lacanians kept talking about the separation of baby "{{TTS\|a\|little A}}" from mother "{{TTS\|A\|big A}}".)		** Aa — Freudian psychoanalysis; Jungianism, Lacanianism. (Etymology: Lacanians kept talking about the separation of baby "{{TTS\|a\|little A}}" from mother "{{TTS\|A\|big A}}".)
	** HAS — humanities, arts, and social sciences. This is only blue because capitalism has currently captured it. In some contexts, the bright green swatch can be used instead.		** HAS — humanities, arts, and social sciences. This is only blue because capitalism has currently captured it. In some contexts, the bright green swatch can be used instead.
	*** HAS — religious studies. Christianity, Buddhism, etc.		*** HAS — religious studies. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, anthropological studies of ancient animist practices, etc.
	** LGBT — queer theory~~. Also used for~~ "uniquely queer" art. (Sometimes I use a rainbow-gradient swatch for this code.)		** LGBT — queer theory, or "uniquely queer" art. (Sometimes I use a rainbow-gradient swatch for this code.)<!--
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	* Khaki brown / rust [code PT] — old monarchist ideas, Toryism, or fascism.		* Khaki brown / rust [code PT] — old monarchist ideas, Toryism, or fascism.
	** PT — Toryism, including Republican Party.		** PT — Toryism, including Republican Party. (The code doesn't stand for much of anything apart from "I didn't want to immortalize TPUSA".)
	** P4 — Duginism, Zionism, modern "Identitarian" fascisms. (Etymology: {{book\|The Fourth Political Theory}} by Dugin.)		** P4 — Duginism, Zionism, modern "Identitarian" fascisms. (Etymology: {{book\|The Fourth Political Theory}} by Dugin.)
	** AS — Hegelianism. (Etymology: "Absolute Spirit".)		** AS — Hegelianism. (Etymology: "Absolute Spirit".)<!--
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	* Earth green [code STM] — science, technology, engineering, or math.		* Earth green [code STM] — science, technology, engineering, or math.
	** GR — general or special relativity. I talk about relativity and black holes a lot, so I find it useful to have a code for it.		** GR — general or special relativity. I talk about relativity and black holes a lot, so I find it useful to have a code for it.
	** FS / FOSS — Free Software movement. Peripheral to Marxism but does have some very interesting ideas.		** FS / FOSS — Free Software movement. Peripheral to Marxism but does have some very interesting ideas.<!--
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	* Bright green [code Fy] — statements about fiction.		* Bright green [code Fy] — statements about fiction.
	** This makes more sense as a category when you know the wiki I was using these codes on was analyzing and criticizing works like {{book\|1984}} and {{book\|Animal Farm}}.		** This makes more sense as a category when you know the wiki I was using these codes on was analyzing and criticizing works like {{book\|1984}} and {{book\|Animal Farm}}.
	** This swatch can be used for the arts or humanities in general if it is truly just about art styles or techniques.		** This swatch can be used for the arts or humanities in general if it is truly just about art styles or techniques.<!--
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	* Violet [code MX] — meta-Marxist analysis methods or hypotheses.		* Violet [code MX] — meta-Marxist analysis methods or hypotheses.
	** This swatch only makes sense when it's being used to color motifs and propositions put forward as claims about other philosophies, or alternatively, to draw a terrain that two Marxist parties of "real" swatch colors sit on so the violet terrain can be used to represent material reality in general.		** This swatch only makes sense when it's being used to color motifs and propositions put forward as claims about other philosophies, or alternatively, to draw a terrain that two Marxist parties of "real" swatch colors sit on so the violet terrain can be used to represent material reality in general.