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Question 16: How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected?
Answer: The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
Question 17: What will be your first measure once you have established democracy?
Answer: Guaranteeing the subsistence of the proletariat.
Question 18: How will you do this?
Answer. I. By limiting private property in such a way that it gradually prepares the way for its transformation into social property, e. g., by progressive taxation, limitation of the right of inheritance in favour of the state, etc., etc.
II. By employing workers in national workshops and factories and on national estates.
III. By educating all children at the expense of the state.
Question 19: How will you arrange this kind of education during the period of transition?
Answer: All children will be educated in state establishments from the time when they can do without the first maternal care.
Question 20: Will not the introduction of community of property be accompanied by the proclamation of the community of women?
Answer: By no means. We will only interfere in the personal relationship between men and women or with the family in general to the extent that the maintenance of the existing institution would disturb the new social order. Besides, we are well aware that the family relationship has been modified in the course of history by the property relationships and by periods of development, and that consequently the ending of private property will also have a most important influence on it.
Question 21: Will nationalities continue to exist under communism?
Answer: The nationalities of the peoples who join together according to the principle of community will be just as much compelled by this union to merge with one another and thereby supersede themselves as the various differences between estates and classes disappear through the superseding of their basis — private property.
Question 22. Do Communists reject existing religions?
Answer: All religions which have existed hitherto were expressions of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is that stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and supersedes them.
In the name and on the mandate of the Congress.
Secretary: Heide [Alias of Wilhelm Wolff in the League of the Just]
President: Karl Schill [Alias of Karl Schapper in the League of the Just]
London, June 9, 1847
Source: Birth of the Communist Manifesto, International Publishers, 1971;
Written: by Engels, June 9 1847;
First published: in Gründungsdokumente des Bundes der Kommunisten, Hamburg, 1969.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/06/09.htm
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🔴 Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith
Part 4:
Question 16: How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected?
Answer: The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
Question 17: What will be your first measure once you have established democracy?
Answer: Guaranteeing the subsistence of the proletariat.
Question 18: How will you do this?
Answer. I. By limiting private property in such a way that it gradually prepares the way for its transformation into social property, e. g., by progressive taxation, limitation of the right of inheritance in favour of the state, etc., etc.
II. By employing workers in national workshops and factories and on national estates.
III. By educating all children at the expense of the state.
Question 19: How will you arrange this kind of education during the period of transition?
Answer: All children will be educated in state establishments from the time when they can do without the first maternal care.
Question 20: Will not the introduction of community of property be accompanied by the proclamation of the community of women?
Answer: By no means. We will only interfere in the personal relationship between men and women or with the family in general to the extent that the maintenance of the existing institution would disturb the new social order. Besides, we are well aware that the family relationship has been modified in the course of history by the property relationships and by periods of development, and that consequently the ending of private property will also have a most important influence on it.
Question 21: Will nationalities continue to exist under communism?
Answer: The nationalities of the peoples who join together according to the principle of community will be just as much compelled by this union to merge with one another and thereby supersede themselves as the various differences between estates and classes disappear through the superseding of their basis — private property.
Question 22. Do Communists reject existing religions?
Answer: All religions which have existed hitherto were expressions of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is that stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and supersedes them.
In the name and on the mandate of the Congress.
Secretary: Heide [Alias of Wilhelm Wolff in the League of the Just]
President: Karl Schill [Alias of Karl Schapper in the League of the Just]
London, June 9, 1847
Source: Birth of the Communist Manifesto, International Publishers, 1971;
Written: by Engels, June 9 1847;
First published: in Gründungsdokumente des Bundes der Kommunisten, Hamburg, 1969.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/06/09.htm
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Today marks the 104th anniversary of the founding of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1920 – at one point the largest communist party outside of China and the USSR.
The PKI was brutally wiped out during the US-led Cold War anti-communist frenzy. Top-secret CIA reports described the killings as among the worst mass murders of the 20th century.
Following political unrest and a failed coup in 1965, communism was banned in Indonesia as a political movement and ideology. The ban on the PKI remains in place to this day.
The aftermath of the coup led to brutal purges and mass killings from 1965 to 1966, resulting in a death toll ranging from 500,000 to nearly two million.
Despite evidence from declassified documents that Western intelligence agencies were aware of and supported the massacres, the CIA has denied their involvement. History textbooks in Indonesia often omit or downplay the killings.
https://www.marxists.org/history/indonesia/1955-BirthGrowthPKI.htm
The PKI was brutally wiped out during the US-led Cold War anti-communist frenzy. Top-secret CIA reports described the killings as among the worst mass murders of the 20th century.
Following political unrest and a failed coup in 1965, communism was banned in Indonesia as a political movement and ideology. The ban on the PKI remains in place to this day.
The aftermath of the coup led to brutal purges and mass killings from 1965 to 1966, resulting in a death toll ranging from 500,000 to nearly two million.
Despite evidence from declassified documents that Western intelligence agencies were aware of and supported the massacres, the CIA has denied their involvement. History textbooks in Indonesia often omit or downplay the killings.
https://www.marxists.org/history/indonesia/1955-BirthGrowthPKI.htm
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On this day, 23 May 1988, four lesbians, including Booan Temple, burst into a BBC news studio during a live broadcast and called out: "Stop Section 28!" The protest was against the new anti-gay law, Section 28, that was about to go into effect at midnight and had received little if any critical news coverage.
Pushed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, Section 28 sought to prohibit the "promotion" or "acceptability" of homosexuality in local authorities and schools.
While the four women were arrested, they were never charged, likely due to the BBC not wanting to give the protest any further attention.
The homophobic mass media unsurprisingly ignored their message and spun the protest in such a way so as to justify discrimination against LGBT+ people. Even still, the protest inspired many LGBT+ people, especially younger folk, to keep up the fight.
The law would be in place until 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales.
Pushed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, Section 28 sought to prohibit the "promotion" or "acceptability" of homosexuality in local authorities and schools.
While the four women were arrested, they were never charged, likely due to the BBC not wanting to give the protest any further attention.
The homophobic mass media unsurprisingly ignored their message and spun the protest in such a way so as to justify discrimination against LGBT+ people. Even still, the protest inspired many LGBT+ people, especially younger folk, to keep up the fight.
The law would be in place until 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales.
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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.pdf
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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (German: Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches), also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, is one of Bertolt Brecht's most famous plays and the first of his openly anti-Nazi works. It premiered on May 21, 1938 in Paris. This production was directed by Slatan Dudow and starred Helene Weigel.The production employed Brecht's epic theatre techniques to defamiliarize the behaviour of the characters and to make explicit the play's underlying message.
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A note on Western "democratic socialists":
"Sham socialists replace the class struggle by dreams of class harmony, and even pictured the socialist transformation in a dreamy fashion - not as the overthrow of the rule of the exploiting class, but as the peaceful submission of the minority to the majority." - Vladimir Lenin
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"Sham socialists replace the class struggle by dreams of class harmony, and even pictured the socialist transformation in a dreamy fashion - not as the overthrow of the rule of the exploiting class, but as the peaceful submission of the minority to the majority." - Vladimir Lenin
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On this day, 24 May 1910, German shipyard worker August Landmesser was born. He is best known as probably being the worker defiantly refusing to perform a Nazi salute at a ship launch. Falling in love with a Jewish woman, he fell foul of Nazi race laws. Refusing to end the relationship, he was jailed and connoscripted to a penal battalion where he was killed. His partner was sent to a women's concentration camp and killed.
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Social-Democracy, however, wants, on the contrary, to develop the class struggle of the proletariat to the point where the latter will take the leading part in the popular Russian revolution, i.e., will lead this revolution to a the democratic-dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.
Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy (1905)
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Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy (1905)
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
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While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
Thomas Sankara
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On this African Liberation Day, which marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity 61 years ago, watch Burkinabè revolutionary Thomas Sankara drawing a comparison between imperialism and a “poor student that never learns from its mistakes.”
Thomas Sankara was a communist revolutionary leader who became president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His revolutionary ideology drew inspiration from Marxism-Leninism, pan-Africanism, women's liberation, and anti-imperialism. Sankara was assassinated in 1987 during a coup that was allegedly supported by France.
Thomas Sankara was a communist revolutionary leader who became president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His revolutionary ideology drew inspiration from Marxism-Leninism, pan-Africanism, women's liberation, and anti-imperialism. Sankara was assassinated in 1987 during a coup that was allegedly supported by France.
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On this day, 25 May 1895, libertarian socialist author Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years' hard labour for "indecency" for having sex with men. Though many potential witnesses refused to testify against him, he was convicted, and upon sentencing judge stated: “It is the worst case I have ever tried. I shall pass the severest sentence that the law allows. In my judgment it is totally inadequate for such a case as this. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years.” Wilde's detention would cause him serious health problems which eventually contributed to his untimely death. In his essay, The Soul of Man under Socialism, in which he expounds his political ideas, he declares: "Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
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John Reed ten-days-that-shook-the-world.pdf
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Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
First published by Boni & Liveright, New York, 1919
With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World.
Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world.
Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages.
It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision.
John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.
Nikolai Lenin
(Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov)
End of 1919
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John Reed
First published by Boni & Liveright, New York, 1919
With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World.
Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world.
Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages.
It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision.
John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.
Nikolai Lenin
(Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov)
End of 1919
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October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир); translit. Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a 1928 Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released as October in the Soviet Union, the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World, after John Reed's popular book on the Revolution.
The film opens with the elation after the February Revolution and the establishment of the Provisional Government, depicting the throwing down of the Tsar's monument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9GCi4Gjso
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The film opens with the elation after the February Revolution and the establishment of the Provisional Government, depicting the throwing down of the Tsar's monument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9GCi4Gjso
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🔴 Neo-Liberalism Has Increased Mass Poverty
✍🏻 Utsa Patnaik
THE media has been full of claims by the World Bank and by governments that millions of people in the global South have been lifted out of poverty during the last three decades that saw neo-liberal economic policies. The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population. The hard data on nutritional intake show however that hunger has risen greatly over the last three decades, with more than two-thirds of its rural and urban population unable to spend enough to satisfy minimum needs of calorific and protein intake; India’s very low ranking (111 out of 125 countries in 2023) on the global hunger index continues, and while some health indicators have improved, others have worsened.
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✍🏻 Utsa Patnaik
THE media has been full of claims by the World Bank and by governments that millions of people in the global South have been lifted out of poverty during the last three decades that saw neo-liberal economic policies. The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population. The hard data on nutritional intake show however that hunger has risen greatly over the last three decades, with more than two-thirds of its rural and urban population unable to spend enough to satisfy minimum needs of calorific and protein intake; India’s very low ranking (111 out of 125 countries in 2023) on the global hunger index continues, and while some health indicators have improved, others have worsened.
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https://telegra.ph/Neo-Liberalism-Has-Increased-Mass-Poverty-05-26
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"Lenin's Speech at the 3rd Congress of the Komsomol", painting by Boris Ioganson, 1950
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