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Someone should write about how "keeping markets competitive" is a silly goal because the tendency towards consolidation in monopolies is organic and reasonable and unstoppable, and about why the battle should instead be about the justified takeover of these monopolies by workers.
If China is socialist, then people in the US have to overthrow US imperialism by destroying the state apparatus of the US imperialists.
But if China is NOT-socialist, then people in the US have to overthrow US imperialism by destroying the state apparatus of the US imperialists.
Only anti-communists would repost forgeries such as "Mass migration must stop - Karl Marx" which twist the content of the provided Marx quote pretty much into its opposite.
*LENIN* must be considered a much more thoughtful student of Marx than "damn_jehu" at this point.
70 years ago, on March 5th, communist revolutionary Joseph
#Stalin
died.
Here are 10 recommended texts by Stalin contributing to the development of
#Marxist
theory and criticism.
Stalin’s works are concise, and important reading for proletarians and oppressed people worldwide.
The Soviet Union was not colonialist🚫
The Soviet Union was not imperialist🚫
The Soviet Union was not capitalist🚫
Quite the contrary:
The Soviet Union was *anti-colonialist*✅
The Soviet Union was *anti-imperialist*✅
The Soviet Union was *anti-capitalist*✅
Hard facts📍
»Western colonialism never ended.
Ghana is one of the top gold producers in africa but 98% of their mines are owned by canada & USA.
To buy their own gold, ghana has to take out western loans, and the price of the gold is decided by western regulators.«
On the 5th of May, 1818, in Trier, Germany, the communist philosopher, economist, and revolutionary, Karl Marx was born 🎂
Here is a thread of 10 works + 10 quotes from Marx, and 10 works + 10 quotes from his lifelong collaborator and friend, Friedrich Engels 📚📕 🚩
#OTD
#Marx
Karl Marx was a politician.
Karl Marx was an organizer.
Karl Marx was an educator.
Karl Marx was an agitator.
Karl Marx was a functionary.
Karl Marx was A COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY.
Don't fail to consider this when u hear "genius philosopher, smart economist, brilliant theorist…"
Engels to Johann Philipp Becker, 14 March 1883:
»Dear Old Man,
Rejoice that you saw Marx once more last autumn, you will never see him again. Yesterday afternoon, at 2.45, when he had been left on his own for barely two minutes, we found him peacefully asleep in his chair.«
🧵LENIN ON SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY
📚 A collection of 179 Lenin quotes on the possibility of "Socialism in one Country" ("SIOC") and the conditions for its final victory on global scale
179 tweets in chronological order (1915–23)
each with 1 excerpt + date + source🔗+ picture
@jasonhickel
Great thread!
Lets not forget that socialist countries did this without engaging in colonialist trade relations or financial capital export. Most of them were/are anyway hit hard by economic DISintegration through imperialist embargoes, effectively cut off from world markets 🤢
71 years ago, on March 5th, communist revolutionary Joseph
#Stalin
died.
Here are 10 recommended texts by Stalin contributing to the development of
#Marxist
theory and criticism.
Stalin’s works are concise, and important reading for proletarians and oppressed people worldwide.
daily reminder that "socialism in one country" is literally older than the october revolution ✅
and yesss: including "organizing their own socialist production" ✅
The Soviet Union did not become capitalist, or imperialist, or colonialist after Stalins death.
The Soviet Union only lost its role as vanguard section of the world proletariat throughout the 1950s.
It took the revisionists *decades* to deteriorate & destroy socialism in USSR.
Reminder that the famous author of a book called »How to Read Marx's Capital«, Michael Heinrich, publicly falsified the first *paragraph* of Marx's »Capital« in order to slander Engels and to promote Heinrichs very own private anti-Engels *and* anti-Marx »interpretation« of Marx:
📕📢Reading Marx' CAPITAL Vol. 1+2+3 in 366 days: Schedule 2024
We read 8 to 12 pages of CAPITAL every Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday (= 173 slices)
4 x 1 hour of self-study per week
We discuss slices in DM chat (in writing) at 11 p.m. UTC
4 x 1 hour of DM chat per week
"POVERTY IS EXPENSIVE"
6 economical reasons why poor individuals have to spend relatively more money than better-offs
... not to mention all waste of nerves, waste of psychic/physical well-being, waste of TIME and non-financial extra efforts etcetc that come "free" with poverty
Celebrating LENIN's birthday on April 22nd with 10 quotes from 10 works 🎁😻📕🥰🚩
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Forward to socialism! Forward to communism!
@no_quichecommie
As of 2021, China has 42 metro systems, more than USA+Japan+India combined😱
The length of all chinese metro systems combined exceeds 6,600 km or 4,100 miles, more than the next 11 countries' metro system lengths combined😱
And 4 entirely new metro systems are to open in 2022
@kennedytcooper
Your Detroit decay under US imperialism
Your Health NOT-Care under US imperialism
Your Inflation crises under US imperialism
Your billionaires 3rd cottage under US imperialism
TURNING POINT: SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
someone told me "readers added context" to this.
i cannot even see it.
apparently they are "testing" it in group experiments on other people.
how many wikipedia articles on "soviet super imperialism" can you sell to the twitter audience in order to deflect from - imperialism?
The Soviet Union was not colonialist🚫
The Soviet Union was not imperialist🚫
The Soviet Union was not capitalist🚫
Quite the contrary:
The Soviet Union was *anti-colonialist*✅
The Soviet Union was *anti-imperialist*✅
The Soviet Union was *anti-capitalist*✅
Hard facts📍
@jamie_pastry
@squirrelpalooza
when they tried to interview a football player from DPRK team after they had won a match:
"YEY you did such a great match out there, so how did it feel to lead your north korean team to victory?"
"Its not 'North Korea' but Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Thanks. Bye."
🥰
This "RTSGtm" publication is a flawed USSR praise:
1⃣ It reduces USSR to Russia and the international communist movement to USSR
2⃣ It reduces socialist revolution to a debt cancel program against foreign banks
3⃣ It reduces imperialism to a "west" full of "puppets" & "elites"
"Soviets did this wrong, Palestinians did that wrong" ---
the only one wrong elephant in this room is the fact that western leftists wrongly failed to completely obliterate their own imperialist warmonger governments and states to this freaking ugly day!
Critique of an "RTSGtm" publication about the historical legacy of the Soviet Union
highlighting some 7+ flaws in the short text which altogether force the conclusion that this is *not* a sound text as it contains anti-marxist theory elements as well as reductionist distortions:
22 June 1941, 80 years ago, Soviet Union got invaded AGAIN after intervention war 1918-22.
7 countries with INITIAL 4.3 MILLION well-armed soldiers of imperialism attacked USSR in summer 1941.
The german INITIAL force of 3 million ALONE was the largest attack force in history >
SOLIDARITY STAMPS from German Democratic Republic
✅cute🥰
✅decent meme templates😻
✅AND solidarily🤩
✅dual use: promoting📢AND funding💸at once
"Invincible Vietnam" (1968), Solidarity with people of Chile (1973) & Palestine (1982) & "Apartheid NO" (1987)
and many more ->
@pinkocatgirl
+ even the most puny attempts of socialist countries to do urban planning
never subordinated the desire for some grass and air and nature stuff in the cities to some whacky car industry or real estate "experts"
let alone the peoples urban planning to come in the future 🤩❤️💚
@Public_Citizen
NONE of these Health systems are really UNIVERSAL.
EACH AND EVERY of those "rich countries" has MASSIVE flaws for poor and privileges for rich people regarding health care.
USA may be the WORST in this regard, but the others are FULL OF SHIT disadvantaging poor, migrants etc.
Marx is a communist.
Engels is a communist.
Lenin is a communist.
Stalin is a communist.
Communists fight for »the transformation of capitalistic private property … into socialised property« by means of »expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of the people« as Marx put it.
Did Karl Marx support hostile propaganda against the Paris Commune due to disagreements?
No.
Can we demand from communists and even leftists, anarchists, socialists of all sorts to *not* support hostile propaganda against the Soviet Union *despite* certain disagreements?
Yes.
How to combat revisionism in China?
By struggling for socialism at home, in the "own" country✅
How to oppose capitalism in Russia?
By struggling for socialism at home, in the "own" country✅
How to smash US imperialism?
By struggling for socialism at home in "own" country✅
»The United States does not have the right to judge anybody.
The United States does not have the right to judge anybody.
AND, as a subsection of that statement:
The U.S. Left does not have the right to judge anybody.«
Vijay Prashad
@istrebki
the move is the same at HOTEL BUFFETS, among others, on daily basis worldwide, where the luxury foods get dumped in tons while others may still complain whether donuts are yummy or not
@MinistryofBased
all that "space race" stuff in 50s-80s also really shows how USA started focussing on military aspect of space travel, while soviet & interkosmos focus really came from science.
similar to USA having first nukes and USSR having first nuclear plant.
sometimes history is vulgar.
it's the second time i see the "readers added context" window implemented by some twitter editors - this time in order to deflect criticism from NYC police.
@BillyFinn18
@asatarbair
Stalin did not "kill millions". There was a CIVIL WAR in 1917-1923. Blaming all people on both sides of that war or on both sides of World War 2 to be "victims of Stalin" is, among other things, a grossly reductionist cult of personality.
Imperialist capitalism killed millions✅
"A [service worker] is an unproductive worker. If she sells her [service] for money, she is to that extent a wage labourer or a commodity dealer. But the same [service worker], when engaged by an entrepreneur, is a productive worker, for she directly PRODUCES capital."
Karl Marx
COMMUNISM IS THE MIDDLE TERM
(poem by Bert Brecht)
To call for the overthrow of the existing order
May seem a terrible thing
But what exists is no order.
To seek refuge in violence
May seem evil.
But what is constantly at work is violence
And there is nothing special about it.
Stalin is not just a Marxist theorist or a politician to quibble about "correctly".
"STALIN" is a social phenomenon: a slogan, a battle cry, even an icon, for millions of workers, peasants and oppressed peoples struggling against imperialism & fascism and for peace & socialism.
"The state will not exist forever. With the extension of the sphere of operation of socialism in the majority of the countries of the world the state will die away …. The state will have died away, but society will remain."
Joseph Stalin, 1952
"Failure" in this context is a pretty idealist teleological category anyway.
People struggled for communism long before the Soviet Union even existed.
People will struggle for communism even if imperialist ideologues bury Soviet Union 10 times a day.
#CommunismWillWin
anyway🤩