#Marxism leninism

[dre759]

To add on.

Read Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences by A.B Abrams (Internet Archive link attached— check out chapter 10 for this specific topic) for a debunking of the modern narrative of “Chinese human rights abuses”.

And for something that goes into even further detail on their policies in Xinjiang, and how it’s not colonialism, I recommend Kyle Ferrana’s Why The World Needs China (I don’t have a Internet Archive link sadly). Chapter 9 does a comparative analysis between the treatment of the Navajo Nation in the US versus the Uyghur minority in southern Xinjiang by each group’s respective governments. The contrast is stark and it only makes China look more humane and fair than the US by a massive degree.

I'm sorry but you will never see me endorsing any "critique" of the CPC's counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang that doesn't put front and center the US's instrumentalization of Islamic terror groups for its geopolitical goals, and you won't see me endorse any """colonization""" narratives of Xinjiang that don't acknowledge the fundamentally different histories of Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin or the role that Uyghurs played, along with Hui Chinese, in ethnically cleansing Dzungaria of Dzungars and other Mongol minorities in the Qing dynasty. Chinese presence in the Tarim Basin predates the first written attestations of the "Dokuz Oghuz", before the first Uyghur Khaganate even emerged, by several centuries. Come the fuck on.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

We know which it is, the rich and powerful would rather us face a continuous series of crisis after crisis than admit that the system is inherently designed to keep us in poverty.

[juegosintiperojuegocontigo]

[read-marx-and-lenin]

There is no magic "abolish the state" button, which is why I'm an anarchist, as "when the state has socialismed enough it will just magically poof away in a cloud of smoke" is the leninist position.

That is not the Leninist position, the Leninist position is and always has been that the state cannot disappear until the material conditions for its disappearance are achieved. The withering away of the state, first outlined by Engels, is not a magic process but one that proceeds from the abolition of class and the dissolution of the bourgeoisie.

How are you going to get rid of the bourgeoisie without a state? Are you going to simply ask them nicely to leave you alone? If you are organized and if your organization is suppressing the bourgeoisie as a class, then you have created a state, you have created an authoritarian imposition on the free organization of some section of the people. If you are not doing any of this, then the bourgeoisie who you have left unmolested will invariably come to dominate you once more.

Anarchists have always played word games to get around these simple facts. There are the practical anarchists who will admit to some amount of authority, but always with the caveat that theirs is *just* authority, *necessary* authority, and that is is the *unjust* authority that they condemn. Just authority is not the State, because the State is unjust, and so if they see an authority as just then it cannot be the State. Fair enough, you can call things by whatever names you like, but if you put these ideas in practice you basically end up with Leninism. You want to create dual power? You want to abolish the bourgeois state and replace it with a democratic organ of the working class? Well so did Lenin, and now you know why the Mensheviks accused him of anarchism.

Then there are the quite impractical capital-A Anarchists, who are adamant that anarchy means anarchy and that even voluntary hierarchy and submission to democratic authority is impermissible. Whether pacifistic or militaristic, they are generally unremarkable and ineffective at their goals because they eschew most effective forms of organization as ideologically impure. Even the most advanced anarchists, the CNT in Spain and the Maknovists in Russia, were plagued by economic confusion and disorganization. Their lack of discipline led to their downfall.

If you want to read more, here are some pertinent links:

[thespectrehauntingfodlan]

Once again Lenin was right. About almost everything but especially this

[stillnaomi]

why do marxists insist on using old language? why say proletariat instead of working class?

marxism is a technical field. we need to use precise language to convey exactly what we mean. saying proletariat communicates a person's relationship to the economy: they have to work for someone else for a wage in order to live. saying that someone is working class only conveys that they work for a living. what if they own the business too? do you think that they might have a different world outlook to somebody who lives off their own wage alone?

it's important for us to make these distinctions, and learning all the jargon is thankfully very doable

[queerism1969]

[lemon-etiquette]

[mpaglamas]

“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

Mao Tse-Tung

[nameinconcept-blog]

"The blizzards are whirling, but neither Hutsul wooden cottages, nor evergreen fir-trees are afraid of colds"

From the book "Буковина" published by "Art". 1989

[sudensk-the-stallionist]

i've been reading another view of stalin recently and even if i already had found out about a good amount of the contents of it through other means the things ludo martens tells you are absolutely baffling, like, unironically groundbreaking. i remember reading khruschev lied by furr and him saying how he can't just disprove the entire "stalin stigma" in one book (and he's right, it would be a gigantic task) but martens is able to shred light into SO MUCH of it. like i SWEAR after reading how the kulaks killed like almost 70 million animals in livestock to sabotage collectivization, and then how the ukrainian fascists all talked about how they were involved in burning crops and doing sabotage left and right in the 30s (the same fascists who later joined hitler and committed the most horrible pogroms), or how the bukharinists, the trotskyites and the military bonapartists had absolutely no issue in just collaborating with nazis, with japanese imperial officers, or how almost every single source for famous holodomor books are literal nazi collaborators using photographs from the tsarist times and from the 1922 famine (WHICH WAS CAUSED BY FOREIGNER INTERVENTION) to prove the "evils" of the USSR, it all just fucking made me want to scream on liberals going on and on about how "ukraine was a rebellious republic... stalin wanted to kill them all and he succeeded" or that "dekulakization was almost as bad as the holocaust". also like mate i don't require everyone to have intricate knowledge about stalin's period on names and dates but some of these people go on alledging stuff while they can't even, like, name who zinoviev was. or who bandera was. jesus christ

[troythecatfish]

The chart does not capture the astonishing fact that these accomplishments were achieved under brutal sanctions imposed by the world’s superpower. Viva la revolución.

They also have ad-free TV ✌️📺 (you don’t need commercials with Socialism).

[katchwreck]

“Women are the roots of the Earth and the heartbeat of the Revolution.”

March 8th, International Working Women's Day.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 2023

[naxalite1967]

[read-marx-and-lenin]

Do you have any video essay recommendations? I find them more accessible for my brain than books but I haven’t found many good commie ones to dive into more theory. Tysm!!

I'm not a huge video essay person, but I do spend a lot of time on YouTube, so here are some of the communist creators I know about. While there are a lot of "leftist" creators out there, I'll be focusing on creators who are on the Marxist side of things.

Hakim is probably one of the bigger explicitly communist creators out there, and while I haven't seen every one of his videos, the ones I've watched have been pretty good.

Fellow Traveller is an underrated one, and while the quality of his videos is a bit scattershot IMO, he does some good deep dives into the history of various socialist nations.

revolutionaryth0t is a newer channel that I found out about recently, and so far her videos have been pretty high-quality for a channel that's less than a year old.

Luna Oi is a Vietnamese Youtuber who primarily focuses on presenting information about Vietnam for a Western audience. She's also got an ongoing translation project for translating Vietnamese dialectical materialism textbooks into English, with the first book already available for purchase or free digital download.

azureScapegoat isn't very active these days, but his videos on Cuba in particular were very informative for me when I was first "unlearning" capitalist propaganda.

Even less active, DPRK News Room is the channel that produced the documentary "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul" that you will see me recommending all the time, and while they have on average maybe one video a year, they have made some very good ones.

And on the subject of the DPRK, while this channel isn't explicitly communist and tends to avoid politics, DPRK Explained is a high-quality source for general information about the DPRK that avoids a lot of the anti-DPRK bias that a lot of Western sources tend to have. If you simply want to learn basic facts about DPRK history and DPRK culture without the sensationalism, you should check them out.

If anyone else has any suggestions or wants to criticize any of the channels I've mentioned, feel free to leave a note.