murdering the grain hoarding landowners innocent poor peasants

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.

Top image- bourgeoisie economist Bottom image- bourgeoisie economist (spicy)

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf

this came up in my feed a few days ago, electoralism and its consequences

we all should make an Onion explicitly from a Marxist perspective

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?

why?

As anti-imperialists, the focus is on organizing vanguard parties who will take advantage of the internal contradictions within imperialism that lead to imperialist wars. the people’s war will ultimately be the deciding conflict, and as you said, with the imperialist powers being weakened, too busy fighting with each other, the people’s war will ultimately prevail.

what about revolutionary communists?

iskra and foreignlanguagepress are my go-to trusted publishers, they both also have free pdfs of all the books they publish. iskra has other radical bookstores in their about page that you can check out

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

communism wasn’t achievable in simple societies, primitive communism was, as the historical epoch changed, the modes of production changed, there felt a need for a system that could make better use of the modes of production as thought of by the people in that historical context. the modes of production and historical epoch changed in a similar way, from slavery to feudal, semi-feudal colonies to capitalism. the historical transformation occurs during a period where contradictions within the system has reached to such an extent that it becomes impossible for the system to self-sustain.

I have read very few books. I used to go about thinking I was deep for reading Animal Farm. I gained actual class consciousness this year, and mostly read theory. My fav. book used to be Agatha Christie’s ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, it was a good one. What are the works of the former and latter two? I’ve heard about Anuradha Ghandy but not in detail.

“what? why are you telling me that when independent countries that actual humans live on are played as toys in legoland by me and my great nation, they will fight back?”

average person spending twitter making shitty political compass and maps unironically who somehow has power

A new left-wing alliance is about to start, right now its in the organizing stages under TransformUK, a shit ton of labour members including MPs have quit, and the alliance also includes an independent Liverpool socialist party. Although I have no hope for electoralist reforms, this seems to be something that can aid the people.

UK has a lot of potential because of being the huge financial hub that acts as bridge between Europe and Amerikka, and its like the oldest imperialist country, the only thing is the anti-immigration policies which are crazy with the Tories, along with terf hate crimes happening/rhetoric being spewed throughout the country

I’m coming from Asia and (for now) UK, although I’m looking for a relatively safer place for queers where you can survive while doing revolutionary work. I’m not sure about the Nordic places, but Netherlands or Germany is looking like one of the options for us. I’m aware wherever I go will be the imperial core where organizing will be the hardest, but that doesn’t stop me, all I want is to start somewhere where I can survive