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Huey P. Newton - Palestine.

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spotted in brooklyn

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On this day in 1943, February 8, Yugoslav anti-fascist partisan Lepa Radić was executed for shooting at SS troops.

With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!”

In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and other partisans, but she refused their offer with the words: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”

Lepa Radić was only 17 years old when she was publicly executed.

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"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions."

-Frantz Fanon

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation guerrillas.

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I'm in the beginning stages of reading theory on Communism but I can't help but feel like I'm starting wrong. I'm currently reading Mao's Little Red Book through a translated PDF a friend found for me. Is that okay to start with or should I start with something else?

First, I don't believe that there is a wrong way to start reading Communist theory/history, if you ask a thousand communists what their reading/learning journey has been they will all tell you something different. They may also tell you what they would have changed in their reading journey, for example what they wish they started with, but even then you will have different answers. I would start with what interests you, in order to keep you energized and interested in what you're reading. In terms of Mao I find his writing very engaging. I would also start with *foundational texts.

Good lists to check out by apas-95 and txttletale (2) and I like my dearest beloved friend mesetacadre's reading list My personal journey started with interest in decolonial theory and African revolution:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution - Walter Rodney The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon A Dying Colonialism - Frantz Fanon

*Foundational text recommendations:

(⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ 27moremoons personal recommendations other than Rodney and Fanon which are foundational texts to me) You will find these in the above lists as well Start with the short texts i.e. don't start with Capital

The Principles of Communism - Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx Das Kapital - Karl Marx The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Vladimir Lenin What Is to Be Done? - Vladimir Lenin State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Lenin Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Joseph Stalin Anarchism or Socialism? - Joseph Stalin Quotations from Mao Tse Tung - Mao Tse Tung

Next for my personal journey, I want to immerse myself in Arab Marxism. Read Kwame Nkrumah. Then I wish to be more versed in Soviet history.

One thing I recommend is that if you start something, finish it, even if you don't understand everything. Picking up theory for the first time feels daunting, especially since a lot of these text reference history and philosophers and language you might not be versed in, but it is my belief that it's better to start somewhere than not start at all. You will become more versed in the language these authors use as you read, and you can (YOU SHOULD) review texts in the years to come.

Take only from what I said and recommend as helpful, and leave the rest.

Take care and good luck comrade, I love you forever

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(P.S. if you are interested in your own Marxist history as a Palestinian, here are the historical documents and books of the PFLP 🚩🇵🇸)

My next read: Arab Marxism & National Liberation

Some accessible audiobooks found here Free resource here Free resource here Some additional useful texts found here

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Drawings featuring Lenin by Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973)

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Just wanted to post these images of Sophia Perovskaya that didn't make the cut for my icon, but that I think are cool anyway. :^)

Sophia was one of three women implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, and the only woman to be executed for it.

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“Imperialism is everywhere. Through the culture that it spreads, through its misinformation, it gets us to think like it does, it gets us to submit to it, and to go along with all its maneuvers. For goodness’ sake, we must stand in imperialism’s way.”

-Thomas Sankara

Taken from “Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987” (pages 54-55).

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“Revolutionaries didn't choose armed struggle as the best path, it's the path the oppressors imposed on the people. And so the people only have two choices: to suffer, or to fight."

— Fidel Castro, 1967

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Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, better known as "Tania" or "Tania la Guerrillera," was an internationalist who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement and later took part in the unfortunate guerrilla expedition to Bolivia called Operation Ghost. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 19, 1937, the daughter of Erich Bunke and Nadia Bider. Her father had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1928 and her mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry. They fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to avoid persecution and eventually settled in Argentina, where they immediately joined the Argentine Communist Party. In 1952, they returned, to help build socialism in the then newly-founded German Democratic Republic, in the Eastern part of Germany. They settled in Stalinstadt, later renamed Eisenhüttenstadt, where her father continued working as a teacher. From a very young age, Tania became involved in communist activities in Argentina and East Germany. Her work as a Spanish translator for Latin American leaders visiting East Germany on behalf of the international relations department of the Free German Youth (the Communist Party youth organisation) enabled her to gain firsthand knowledge of political events occurring in Latin America. After meeting Che Guevara in Leipzig in December 1960, Tania moved to Cuba where she participated in the Cuban Literacy Campaign, among other revolutionary efforts, working for the Ministry of Education, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, and the Federation of Cuban Women. In 1964, she was selected to participate in Che's Bolivia campaign. Her loyalty to the struggle was unwavering despite having to cut almost all ties with her friends and family in order to safely complete her mission. After working clandestinely for over two years in La Paz, Bolivia, and then fighting in the ranks of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia (ELN), Tania was machine-gunned to death in an ambush at Puerto Mauricio on the banks of the Rio Grande by members of the CIA-backed Bolivian army on August 31, 1967. Tania and the rest of her comrades were secretly buried in unmarked graves by the Bolivian military. After a long campaign by the Cuban government, their remains were eventually taken to Cuba for burial in 1998. In East Germany, many collectives, youth brigades, schools and kindergartens bore the name of Tania. But in reunified Germany, her name fell prey to public oblivion.

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"I am not tolerant. I do not tolerate fascism." -Pedro Lemebel

Today would be the 72nd birthday of Chilean artist and queer comrade Pedro Lemebel, who fought tirelessly for queer inclusion in the fight against the dictatorship of Pinochet.

You can read his formative novel, My Tender Matador, here for free on the Internet Archive.

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Not you defending North Korea 🤡

almost every single shocking story about North Korea you have ever read (if not all of them) was either made up wholesale or sourced from North Korean defectors. these defectors are paid ludicrous sums of money by the South Korean government for their testimony, but that cash flow gets cut off if the defector comes across as even slightly sympathetic to their home country, which obviously leads to stories that make NK look good getting buried and stories that make them look bad getting spread to American media, regardless of how obviously fake they are, since anyone who questions them is obviously a fascist apologist who wants the world to get nuked.

i’m sure you already know this since you know so much about North Korea, but the US bombed almost the entire fucking country off the map and still holds annual military drills with South Korea in preparation to do it again right on the border as an intimidation attempt. if you can be cognizant of both of these facts and still take stories about officials being fed to 120 starving dogs at face value, you might be a fucking idiot

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Today, July 11th marks the anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide where Serbian forces rounded up over 8,000 Bosniak Muslims in the UN-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica, and murdered them—for no other reason than being Muslim.

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Communist Party of India-Maoist

Military wing: Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)

Also known as Naxalites