The
Fourth International Posadist is a
Trotskyist international. It was founded in 1962 by
J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the
Fourth Internationalin the 1950s, and of the Fourth International's section in
Argentina. Between their split from the
International Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1962 and Posadas' death in 1981, Posadists developed a strain of communism that included several fringe ideas, which brought them into conflict with more mainstream
left-wing groups.
Posadism is probably best remembered today for their enthusiasm towards
nuclear war as a way of
destroying capitalism[1] and their attempt to introduce elements of
Ufology into
Marxist thought.
[2] Arguing that only communism can allow the development of
interplanetary travel, they concluded that
visiting aliens from other planets must live in highly advanced communist societies and are bound to help Earth-based communists with bringing about the
world revolution.
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