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β[β¦] the social revolution for which the proletariat strives cannot be realized until it shall have captured political powerβ - Road To Power 1909.
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Give me one good reason why all of this shouldnβt become one country
Give me one good reason why all of this shouldnβt become one country
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@JohnWakefieId βI am an agent of capital, executive of the bourgeois state, I will use the functions of this office to advance & protect the interests of capital both domestically & aboardβ π’π€.
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Really impressed with ppl who are sticking to their principles & publicly supporting Palestine despite trying to hold/build prestigious careers.
NYU Law student Ryna Workman loses prestigious job offer after penning a horrifying justification for the murder, rape, and kidnapping of Jews in a school newsletter. Thank you @WinstonLaw for doing the right thing and breaking ties with this atrocious antisemite.
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Part of me wishing Trotsky had won out & taken lead of the USSR. Not bc Iβm a Trotskyist but bc Trotsky as this destined napoleonic figure is so powerful, aesthetically & narratively.
Incredible how the specter of one man continues to live rent free in the minds of revisionists, fascists, and their liberal enablers the world over . Trotsky and what he fought for has never been more relevant than today and it reduces them to impotent rage
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MLs and leftcoms when they find out the DotP will be multiparty with free & direct elections:
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βThe only form of the state in which Socialism can be realized is that of a republic, and a thoroughly democratic republic at that.β . - Karl Kautsky, The Road to Power, 1909
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βThe Social Democrat deputy as such is not a free individualβhowever harsh this may soundβbut simply the delegate of his party.β . - Karl Kautsky on party discipline 1893
The DSA is hellbent on destroying everything that Bernie Sanders handed to them.
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@Dongistan_ @NotPotBol No one is calling Galloway or his party fascistic bc of opposition to the US.
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French Revolution introduced the first brownshirts βοΈ. Muscadins as the street muscle of the Thermidorian gov used to suppress the left
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Insane to me people still posit Soviets as a viable alternative to parliament, the soviets proved completely incapable of governing, almost entirely collapsing by the end of 1918 to a state apparatus the Bolsheviks were forced to build & direct in its place
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@MingAutocrat Best the royalists could do, dig up a dead man who floored them at every turn. Deeply pathetic lol.
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Bebel on Bernsteinβs revisionism. last lineβs especially powerful
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Overwhelming urge to participate in the VandΓ©e uprising against revolutionary Paris
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βThe government of revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyrannyβ. - Robespierre, Report to the Convention, Feb. 5, 1794
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βWhoever wants to reach Socialism by a different road, other than that of political democracy, will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.β. - Lenin, 1905
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Reformists & revisionists when they find out the DotP really means dictatorship:
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itβs easy for me bc im nobody out in the prairies, but these ppl are surrounded by & dependent on Israeli apartheid supporters/apologists for their careers. Just really commendable.
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[β¦] The carrying of universal suffrage in England would, therefore, be a far more socialistic measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent. Its inevitable result here, is the political supremacy of the working class.β. - Karl Marx, 1852
βWe now come to the Chartists, the politically active portion of the British working class. The six points of the Charter which they contend for contain nothing but the demand of universal suffrage and of the conditions without which universal suffrage would be illusory [β¦]β.
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Deeply moronic takeaway from the Chilean experience ppl parrot online without a thought. There *is* an electoral path to socialism, . not as reformists loyal to the existing constitutional order, . but as committed opponents of it championing an alternative, a DotP.
there is no electoral path to socialism. Chile should have taught yβall something. no shortcuts. smash the power of the ruling class through force of arms or you will be destroyed.
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My global politics class is full of NATO fanatics, the bloodthirst is crazy, idk how Iβm going to survive this sem. I said it was good the US is no longer the sole global hegemon & my group looked at me like I was genuinely insane.
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βWe have to wage a PPW!!!β.βWe need to purge more members for ideological impurity!!!β.βWe need coalition with liberals!!!β. The classical social democrat:
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Finished the corrections to the proofs for Citizen Marx. Book feels very real now!
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β[W]e have to show, above all, that the republic we wantβthe republic that the fighters of 1792, 1848 and 1871 strove to achieveβis fundamentally different from the republic of today, as different from this republic as the last republic was from the monarchyβ. - Karl Kautsky 1905
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βwe are taking the first step towards [the socialist revolution] in the only possible way, along the only correct road, namely, the road of a democratic republic.β. - V.I. Lenin, 1905
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βthe moment has come to organize temporarily the despotism of liberty in order to wipe out the despotism of kingsβ.
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Hooting & hollering
Getting an βI β€οΈ nuclearβ top & becoming the communist version of a hooting oil & gas Albertan.
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@boneysoups I mean even if she didnβt, she was still guilty of having been Queen, al la St. Just.
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@Punished_Bouncy Nah, the forces & ideological justifications behind parliamentary supremacy were already established , . Russian rev was more impressive, incredibly small industrial proletariat being so politically advanced & organized enough to pull off a rev in a sea of economic backwardness.
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βThe task of communism is to take back the world we have created by giving the masses democratic control over society.β. - Luke Pickrell, Marxism and the Democratic Republic, 2023.
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My least favourite Lenin has gotta be the wide-eyed βlibertarianβ-style optimist Lenin immediately following October Rev, 1917 -1918. Annoyingly naive. βThe masses will do everything spontaneously !!!1!1!β Give me a break π₯±
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Itβs interesting that a reoccurring part of Bernsteinβs revisionism was attempting to sever the historical link between the French Revolution & the Social Democratic movementβpainting revolution as totally anachronistic
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Iβm convinced the core foundation of the Marxist political strategy is working class political independence & the immediate fight for a workerβs republic (DotP)βlemme know if you disagree.
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@homicideduck @may3aaa @doeraymefahsoul @wk9xi Idc, the drawn features were beautiful, being clocky is not a sin.
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β[T]he moment has come to organize temporarily the despotism of liberty in order to wipe out the despotism of kingsβ . - Jean-Paul Marat
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βAll of the planks of the minimum program are in a sense βpoliticalβ: taken together, not a zero-year immediate transition to communism, nor a list of desirable policies weβd like to see, but demands which would put the proletariat in the dominant position in the class struggleβ.
Cosmonaut republishes three short articles by Luke Pickrell, Edward Varda, and Gil Schaeffer, which represent a recent debate on the democratic republic, political agitation, the minimum-maximum program, and communism in the strategy of @MarxistUnityDSA.
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@cornercopi Thatβs just her experience & how she understands it. It doesnβt have to apply to you.
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- Democracy is rule of the majority. - Workers are the majority. Therefore, DotP is democracy. itβs that simple folks
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My heartβs with the Palestinian resistance π«Ά.
A lot of calls for a ceasefire have nothing to do with peace. In the same sentence they call for a ceasefire and call for the destruction of Israel within our lifetimes. What this individual is calling for is the preservation of Hamas, and victory for Hamas.
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Even before the Civil War really ramps up, the soviets are pulling moronic parochial stunts like repeatedly taxing goods as they travel & pass different local soviets, DUMB !.
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Really coming to recognize the historic role addiction has played in pulling nations into capitalism. Through the introduction of liquor and debt, the English successfully dragged Indigenous communities under the dictates of a market economy
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How I look reading theory
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Laughing at the biblical connotation the Montagnards tried to evoke w/ the name βmountainβ, . Like Moses bringing down the Ten Commandments from a mountain, they would legislate down laws to France from the Mountain
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β[Bernstein] has genuine tact and is quick on the uptakeβjust the reverse of Kautsky, who is an exceptionally good chap, but a born pedant and hair-splitter in whose hands complex questions are not made simple, but simple ones complex.β. - Engels to August Bebel, 1881.
Throughout marx & engelsβ letters you get the sense that Kautsky really is this massive nerd, . absolutely the type of intellectual that needs direction.
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Kautsky spitting. Reminds me of the point Engels was making in tactics of social democracy
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wrong.
unironically the millions of people who refuse to work are doing more than all of the strikers combined.
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βToday we all know that the popular socialist state can be erected only through a violent overthrow and that it is our duty to uphold consciousness of this among ever broader layers of the peopleβ . - Kautsky, 1881, Der Sozialdemokrat.
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Actually insane to me the Soviet government even let the Constituent Assembly sit , especially after it was clear the right had won a majority.
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ngl I do think democratic socialism is a cringe term but eh π€· itβs understandable in a context where many of the 20th century socialist experiments lacked any meaningful democratic control.
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@LaciCloud Single directly & universally elected politically supreme parliament. Legislative, executive, & judicial power all concentrated in this body.
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Our job is to abolish every fetter on democratic control & concentrate all power in a single representative body, universally, directly, & regularly elected.
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@JohnWakefieId I just donβt see how any minority institution that can check majority rule wonβt just be usurped by capital & reestablish bourgeois rule. I think there are ways to ensure certain democratic & political rights are protected w/o relying on minority checks.
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