Excellent video from YouTube channel revolutionaryth0t on the successes and failures of women's liberation in the USSR, with takeaways for future liberation efforts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTlejH-WzQ
One crucial rule: don't target the average when designing, legislating, etc; instead, get as close to end-to-end coverage of the spectrum as you can.
Marxist-Leninists also believe in creating a world without hierarchies and authoritarian structures, but they're more pragmatic and realistic about how to achieve it than their anarchist cousins.
An interesting juxtaposition at the local library :P
Friedrich Engels said that the following proposition of Marx would be "destined to do for history what Darwin’ s theory has done for biology." He was completely correct.
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #marxism
Karl Marx's grave is so based!
It has the quotes:
"Workers of all lands unite!"
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
This election radicalized me, from staunch progressive to pure marxist-leninist. I left the Working Families Party, which I was volunteering for and joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Did you see yesterday's #GreenSocialist podcast?
Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoiU5egTvhA
I alt text my smut to show solidarity with my sight-impaired comrades saving shit for their wank banks.
NO REVOLUTION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
Capitalism is Cursed - Karl Marx
@Radical_EgoCom Remind me to do the same with ML's :P #marxism #Lenin #marxismLeninism #communism #socialism
“A growing number of #philosophers, #physicists & #biologists say that, instead of continually admitting new creatures into the category of intelligence, the new findings are evidence that there is something wrong with the way we understand #intelligence itself.”
https://www.noemamag.com/a-radical-new-proposal-for-how-mind-emerges-from-matter/
This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of #capitalism to address the #climatecrisis. “No #capitalist,” #Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.”
@yogthos "zone of responsibility" ; Interesting. I've been wondering lately if revolutionary parties in the US could ally with other entities -- churches, unions, co-ops, other friendlies -- to establish something similar, especially in "underserved" areas. #socialism #communism #marxism
On the problematic aspects of "People over Profit" crowd
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Anyone who writes/utters the phrase" *People over Profits* (or) viceversa, but doesnt condemn State, Capitalism & so called "Democracy", doesnt call for abolition of all three of them (incl the support structures that enable them), are people you should not take seriously.
They are either clueless (or) propagandists (or) both.
Its immaterial whether they are do-gooder/not. So long as they are not willing to do root cause analysis, so long as they are not willing to dig deep, understand the layers beneath & start building a proposal for their solutions from there, they are not serious people. Regurgitation of other people's views without critically examining them is what unserious people do.
We have far too many people, esp in the so called "intellectual" sphere, in privileged places who make serious money (or) enjoy perks of hanging around at the top of food chain, peddling the "People over Profit" bullshit.
No need to pay serious attention to them as the extent of the "solutions" they propose are only going to lead to someone else writing the same thing about their "solutions" that they write about current systems — once their proposals are implemented, within the bounds of existing system.
Those "solutions" (that will never attack the root causes head-on) will never address the fundamental issues & they will keep you on the path of permanent sisyphean struggle.
If someone is serious about getting rid of this permanent sisyphean struggle, one need to take a serious look at Anarchy & that will force everyone to take a serious look at all centers of domination, not engage in cherrypicking, not pick one/few variables & assume those explain everything (Yes, *No war but class war* people & Marxists are included in this category), not engage in surface level analysis where in we confuse effect for the cause, ignore the root causes hoping surface level changes can somehow mask the much deeper level rot, much less address.
Dozen Values is the most granular of the political alignment quizzes I've done. Would recommend.
One thing I've been thinking about lately is Hal Draper's concept of the political center. I want to start printing out short Marxist texts to share with others locally for free. It seems like most Marxist sects sell their pamphlets and newspapers, while anarchists give out zines for free.
Maybe a small press like this could begin giving out pamphlets, and eventually start a newspaper which can cover current events and publish new theory.
It's a shame that Jean-Paul Sartre never joined the French Communist Party and that he was a revisionist Marxist, which probably explained why he didn't join the French Communist Party.
In a previous generation people learned in economics that the US never had a real national bank, but private banks made up what is called the National Reserve with only a spokesperson being chosen by the state.
In the next generation kids are wondering why the hell would there be a non-private bank, anywhere in the world.
Again, another development #Marxism failed to explain.
Howie Hawkins latest article on the 3rd anniversary of the #Russia full-scale invasion of #Ukraine is out in New Green Horizon now!
Read the article at https://newgreenhorizons.us/russia-is-imperialist-too/
