User:RD/9k/color swatch system (Q12,9,92)
Main entry
- LithoGraphica philosophy classification systems / philosophy tag / philosophy code / ideology code / ideology tag / philosophy tag or ideology code for "non-partisan" field of academic study
- LithoGraphica color swatch system -> an entry which will formally lay out the rules for what puts things in each color swatch one by one. this entry really is focused only on the swatches, not the 2-3 letter philosophy tags which are used in contexts that resemble black-and-white publications.
Basic rules
level-1 rules
(LithoGraphica color swatch system) -> the "mandatory" set of swatch assignment rules that likely will not change.Stalin's Marxism must be crimson
/ The crimson swatch color must be used for Stalin's Marxism (ML) to reflect that this is the most common meaning of "Communism" and "Reds" in most Liberal-republican countries regardless of the ideological faction people are on when they use the term; this includes Stalin's party and Hoxhaism but does not explicitly include Maoism -> note that "crimson" is a signifier that groups things, and what real actual color it will be rendered in on the screen is an entirely separate thing. colorblind or monochrome stylesheets are completely respected on this project.Anarchism must be charcoal
/ The black swatch color must be used for anarchism (the totality of philosophies claiming to be both "against capitalism" in a Marxist sense and "anarchism"; philosophy tag ), to reflect that this has been the traditional symbol used within anarchist movements for over a century; although this swatch color is black in concept, it may be rendered in a charcoal-gray color in contexts such as stylesheets if that looks more visually appealingEuropean fascism must be brown
/ The khaki brown swatch color must be used for classical European fascisms, including: Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Imperial Japan
Level-2 rules
- level-2 rules (LithoGraphica color swatch system) -> the second set of basic rules that is relatively well-decided-on but is not as "strictly mandatory". these rules have slightly less firm justification but are also fairly unlikely to change.
meta-Marxism is violet
/ The violet swatch color will be used for meta-Marxism — a body of methods internally given a boundary by particular rules, in which whole Marxist movements taking place in a particular country or region are analyzed as developing material objects which might be in conflict with each other and get into heated material contradictions despite both attempting to be versions of Marxism and both claiming to be able to create a new historical period which will involve workers' government and socialist transition; this violet swatch color is an intermediate violet which is not specified to be either red-violet or blue-violet, and these colors are left open as options for specialized swatch colors that may be assigned to specific philosophy tags laterDuginism is brown
/ Alexander Dugin's so-called "fourth" political ideology (P4) and The European New Right are similar enough to classical European fascism to be brownToryism is brown
/ Tory parties (PT) such as the US Republican Party and UK Conservative Party are similar enough to Duginism (not Nazi Germany, not World War II) to be brown -> one question that might come up in the minds of any experienced Marxists who find this project is, why distinguish Toryism as its own ideology separate from Liberal-republicanism (= capitalist government, capitalist ideology) as a whole? and the answer is, the United States is so politically bankrupt that absolutely every progressive movement that has ever existed from unions to the civil rights movement to anarchism and schizoanalysis to just everything has defined itself in opposition or in relation to Toryism (the Free Software movement has referenced Toryism in two different directions, either saying 'I'm anti-trans just like the Tories' or 'the Tories are being too stingy with their business territories'). so, without knowing in detail what Toryism is and simply letting people label bad things they want to oppose "Toryism" it's somewhat literally impossible to create even a single organization anywhere in the United States. everyone who lives in the US knows that if you simply let people classify and name ideologies however they want, they'll try to tell you that all conservative parties are indistinguishable from European fascism, and then Tories will argue in different words that they're Tories and not fascists, and the progressives will lose the argument that fascism already exists or is forming and it'll get really ugly.
I choose to use this knowledge to claim that Liberal-republicans are very very slowly learning meta-Marxist color swatch analysis, and it might be possible to use people's back and forth contradiction against Toryism to actually teach them what ideologies are, how many total ideologies exist besides just center-Liberalism and Toryism, and how all of them relate to historical materialism, historical periods, and historical transitions. I don't think there are any guarantees on that. but it does make it easier to talk about US, UK, and Australian politics without dismissing all of it and throwing it all in the trash.
Liberal-republicanism is usually blue
/ The sky-blue swatch color will be used for Liberal-republican philosophies (LR) which are not clearly identifiable as Toryism; this includes the US Democratic Party and the British Labor Party, as well as traditional Enlightenment-era authors now associated with Liberal-republicanism such as Kant / The sky-blue swatch color () will be used for center-Liberalism and most of Liberal-republicanismTrotskyism is orange
/ The flame-orange swatch color will be used for Trotskyism (the totality of attempts to form a Fourth International; philosophy tag ) to reflect its deep and ongoing material conflict with Stalin's Marxism (ML) from circa 1904 through 2026; their neatly symmetric, back-and-forth "civil war" with each other in which they have defined and changed each other through sustained resistance to each other arguably makes them entirely separate movements that at some unclear point in history (or fuzzy range of time) divided off and put a gap between each other instead of remaining two wings of one movementEclectic Marxism is strawberry
/ Eclectic versions of Marxism that contain some amount of Marxism yet improperly mix in Idealism, religion, conflating peasants and employees, or other particular forms of bourgeois ideology that cause problems for understanding Marxism will be marked with the pale-red "strawberry" swatch color -> this is one of the shakiest "basic rules" — I think the distinction between Materialism (ML) and eclectic Materialism (philosophy tags ) is solid, but I am not entirely sure if the strawberry swatch should be divided into more swatches when it comes to identifying social structures which are particularly at fault for generating strawberry ideology.
Related
Math can save Trotsky
-> vermilion Marxism / fourteen-quarters swatch- Trotskyism is orange / Trotskyism is fire-red -> I'd say you shouldn't phrase it like that but the Pokémon on the cover of FireRed is Charizard, and Charizard is orange. there is a very weird joke trying to pop out of this statement involving the Trotskyist swatch and Charizard
Ideologies or fields
- MX / meta-Marxism