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genuine question: i read it a while ago but it seems to me that engels’ principles of communism is sort of divorced from modern communist practice in terms of some policy outlined? for example, the modern communist position would be to not compensate former owners of the means of production but to just expropriate the enterprise after having seized state power

in general, all the specific policies proposed by marx and engels with regards to socialism are outdated - writing, as they were, before the proper development of imperialism as a capitalist world system, their vision of how socialism would come about was eschewed. while the theoretical basis, the understanding that capitalism and its inherent contradictions work towards its own abolition, and that the thing to replace it must be proletarian rule, remains correct, and is an immanent and self-evident truth, the specific ways this would occur were not predicted accurately. marx and engels also envisioned - as made sense! - that the establishment of socialism would first occur in the most advanced countries with the most developed relations and means of production. the basis of marxist thought as expounded by marx and engels is entirely valid, the specific applications proposed not so (marxism is not a dogma!). hence the development of marxism-leninism, which, more than just an iteration on marx's work, is an adaptation and reapplication of marxist thought to the new world-historical context of imperialism.

principles of communist thought can be learned from engels, however communist policies generally cannot.

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Digiral

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major traffic incident

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MARXISM

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israel will do gruesome shit like this all the time while liberals will disqualify the entire palestine movement as antisemitic and not worth supporting bc they saw one video of a palestinian call the people bombing and invading them jews instead of zionists

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Be thankful for the guys and gals that deliver our mail

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can Not stop randomly saying "den i throw da bones at james" to myself

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Someone hit me with their car and I got isekai'd to a world that's really similar to my old one except in this one my collarbone is mysteriously broken

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everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

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He’s making an input coefficient matrix, he’s testing it twice 

He’s gonna find out who’s bourgeois or reactionary

Doctor Marx is coming to town 

He sees you when you’re exploiting 

He knows when you control labor 

He knows how your capital stock’s going 

So be good for goodness sake

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MARXISM

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Come back to me when it's the super Mario brothers sisters. I mean, the super mario sisters. Come back when super mario brothers matio and luigi are super mario sisters. Return to me when it is super mario and super luigi are sisters. Super Mario super sisters. Come back when the sisters an be them. Come back. Make them girls.

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You’re either meowing with me or meowing against me