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resistancemarxistblog · 2 months

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newsandletterscommittee · 1 year

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An abstract or formal posing of the problem of equality in general and national equality in particular is in the very nature of bourgeois democracy. Under the guise of the equality of the individual in general, bourgeois democracy proclaims the formal or legal equality of the property-owner and the proletarian, the exploiter and the exploited, thereby grossly deceiving the oppressed classes. On the plea that all men are absolutely equal, the bourgeoisie is transforming the idea of equality, which is itself a reflection of relations in commodity production, into a weapon in its struggle against the abolition of classes. The real meaning of the demand for equality consists in its being a demand for the abolition of classes.

In conformity with its fundamental task of combating bourgeois democracy and exposing its falseness and hypocrisy, the Communist Party, as the avowed champion of the proletarian struggle to overthrow the bourgeois yoke, must base its policy, in the national question too, not on abstract and formal principles but, first, on a precise appraisal of the specific historical situation and, primarily, of economic conditions; second, on a clear distinction between the interests of the oppressed classes, of working and exploited people, and the general concept of national interests as a whole, which implies the interests of the ruling class; third, on an equally clear distinction between the oppressed, dependent and subject nations and the oppressing, exploiting and sovereign nations, in order to counter the bourgeois-democratic lies that play down this colonial and financial enslavement of the vast majority of the world’s population by an insignificant minority of the richest and advanced capitalist countries, a feature characteristic of the era of finance capital and imperialism.

The imperialist war of 1914-18 has very clearly revealed to all nations and to the oppressed classes of the whole world the falseness of bourgeois-democratic phrases, by practically demonstrating that the Treaty of Versailles of the celebrated “Western democracies” is an even more brutal and foul act of violence against weak nations than was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of the German Junkers and the Kaiser. The League of Nations and the entire post war policy of the Entente reveal this truth with even greater clarity and distinctness. They are everywhere intensifying the revolutionary struggle both of the proletariat in the advanced countries and of the toiling masses in the colonial and dependent countries. They are hastening the collapse of the petty-bourgeois nationalist illusions that nations can live together in peace and equality under capitalism.

From these fundamental premises it follows that the Communist International’s entire policy on the national and the colonial questions should rest primarily on a closer union of the proletarians and the working masses of all nations and countries for a joint revolutionary struggle to overthrow the landowners and the bourgeoisie. This union alone will guarantee victory over capitalism, without which the abolition of national oppression and inequality is impossible.

V.I. Lenin, Theses on National and Colonial Questions, Second Congress of The Communist International (1920)

#marxism #communism #vladimir lenin #communist international

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j-august · 2 years

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Midway between the wars, Comintern was visibly cross with the CPGB [Communist Party of Great Britain]. Communist leaders, it complained, showed inadequate enthusiasm for denouncing the heresies of the non-Stalinist left. A prominent Comintern bureaucrat protested in 1929: "How does it happen that all the fundamental problems of the Communist International fail to stir our fraternal British party? ... All these problems have the appearance of being forcibly injected into the activities of the British Communist Party... In the British Party there is a sort of special system which may be characterised thus: the party is a society of great friends."

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

#quote #quotation #Christopher Andrew #The Defence of the Realm #Comintern #CPGB #Communist Party of Great Britain #Communists #inadequate enthusiasm #(have you ever heard anything more British)#bureaucrat #problems #Communist International #special system #society of great friends #(that also)

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jovialbasementbouquetblr · 6 months

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1920-30s: Hungarian-Soviet Diplomat/Comintern Official in China

Fascinating have been the explorations opened up by the rapid improvements in DeepL, Google Translate and ChatGPT. While to rely upon them fully one would need the help of a human language expert (computers play dirty tricks on trusting homo saps) still they can provide an much more extended overview and can always be checked against other sources. An example is the Russian-language Wikipedia…

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#China #Communist International #Communist Party #diplomat #Hungarian #Hungary #PRC #Soviet Union #USSR #中国

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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 days

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May 1 is International Workers' Day in more than 80 countries. In the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s, socialist and Communist groups celebrated it, too. Here, women march in a column with upraised fists in a parade on May 1, 1935.

Photo: Murray Becker for the Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Murray Becker #May 1 #1 May #International Workers' Day #May Day #socialists #Communists #workers parade #women activists #laborers

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elbiotipo · 6 months

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Imagínate que el mandatario de un país te cierre el orto por Twitter. yo me mato.

#context: Milei (far right candidate) has said he would break relations with China and Brazil because they're communist #when asked what would happen since those two are our largest trading partners he said he would leave everything in private hands #which of course is fucking nonsense because these are international relationships #the guy here is parodying this pretending to be a juice producer talking to Xi Jinping #some idiot says that's how they do things in Chile #AND THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF CHILE SAYS THAT NO THAT'S NOT HOW THINGS WORK IN CHILE #cosas mias

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communistkenobi · 2 months

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you know how we all like to make fun of the “you know what? no. fuck this, fuck you” style of liberalposting on here. well liberal academic texts are also written in the same exact tone

#international legal literature is um. well if I wasn’t already a communist reading it would immediately radicalise me into one

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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destalva25 · 1 year

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"This is not the end but only the beginning of the struggle; it is not enough to come here to demonstrate in favour of an eight hours' day. We must not be like some Christians who sin for six days and go to church on the seventh, but we must speak for the cause daily, and make the men, and especially the women that we meet, come into the ranks to help us".

Eleanor Marx's speech on 1st May Day.

Hyde Park, 4th May 1890.

#karl marx #friedrich engels #communism #artwork #historical figures #artists on tumblr #marxism #fan art #digital art #mayday #international workers day #communist

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism · 1 year

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By Sharon Black

So much has been done to sterilize International Women's Day, package it, market it, capitalism-it — foremost in the capitalist West, of which the U.S. is the capital. But the beating heart behind all of the fancy images and representations is still strong, red and has the potential to change the world. Its red tail pokes out from under all of the corporate debris.

Clara Zetkin was its original heartbeat, and she definitely had a red heart.

#International Womens Day #IWD2023 #Clara Zetkin #revolutionary #women #feminist #communist #socialism #antifascist #capitalism #imperialism #patriarchy #Germany #Sharon Black #Struggle La Lucha

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eggcolomba · 6 months

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Around the world, workers and youth have been mobilising in solidarity with the Palestinian masses, who are facing a brutal onslaught from the Israeli military. Comrades of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) have joined these demonstrations, advancing communist slogans in support of the struggle of the oppressed people of Palestine.