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  • Tee@lemmygrad.mlOPtoMemes@lemmygrad.mlBUT IT IS AUTHORITARIANISM
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    1 year ago

    If you truly say you are for the proletariat you have to ground yourself to materialist analysis. If you think your theory has more potential that speaks for the people better, then its better that you cooperate with the party that understood the dialectics and led the revolution instead of useless chantings that the one party isn’t the way. There’s a reason their revolution was successful. Do material analysis first and realize why, than focusing on ideological thinking that “there are always differences”. if there are differences then there are ways to solve those differences within the party.










  • hey! everybody has to start somewhere, and there is no definite introductory book that will suit every person, but to be broad, you can divide Marxism into its philosophy, and its economics. To start with Marxist philosophy of historical materialism and dialectical materialism, few introductory topics might be

    • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific- Engels
    • The German Ideology- Marx
    • Critique of Gotha- Marx
    • Dialectical and Historical Materialism- Stalin

    for introduction to Marxist economics, the first volume of Kapital will usually cover everything, but to start things off, you can read the shorter (20-30 pagesish) works by Marx, Wage/Labour/Capital, and Value/Prices/Profit. Both of these lay the foundations of Kapital and the mode of production as found in capitalism

    David Harvey has an introductory course which consists of solely understanding kapital, which can be found here- https://davidharvey.org/

    Foundations of Leninism- Stalin; What is To Be Done (Lenin); State and Revolution (Lenin) for basic socialist theory in Marxism-Leninism

    history has to be understood in its context, and to understand the history of communism, you’ll have to understand communist revolutions throughout the world, now that depends on whether you want to study the July-26 movement in Cuba, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Chinese revolution, etc. I’d say focus on the particular history of each country after the basics of philosophy is understood!! Have fun and good luck :)

    Edit- didn’t see the 30 year thing, may I know your reasoning behind it?













  • I go through revolutionary pessimism too, from time to time. China and Cuba who have maintained their status as heading towards socialism for this long despite sanctions and pressures from US show that it is not impossible. The leftist movement is getting class consciousness and growing. It is not just about the so called actually existing socialist states, or about the few African military juntas leading the country towards the path of Thomas Sankara, its about the contradictions within imperialism that make it more and more unstable for it to maintain itself. Imperialist contradictions will, sooner or later, be taken advantage of by the proletariat to guide the revolution. now the question of whether it can be transitioned to communism cannot be answered because of imperial oppression that has fought back against every attempt. I won’t let that affect my spirit. Lenin was depressed in February-ish of 1917, thinking of whether he can actually bring about a change. In October, the second revolution of the year happened. He famously said, “there are decades where nothing happens, there are weeks where decades happen”. its not a matter of if it will happen, its a matter of when.


  • socialism is the lower stage of communism with “true communism” being the final stage. its either communism or extinction, because when the lower stage of communism is achieved, it is basically doomed for the world as it is right now, given climate change disasters at its peak, to revert back to capitalist mode of production