Lenin" Karabakh carpet, USSR, circa 1950.

"It is quite natural that the petty-bourgeois world outlook should crop up again and again in the ranks of the broad workers' parties. What we now often experience only in the domain of ideology, namely, disputes over theoretical amendments to Marx; what now crops up in practice only over side-issues in the labour rnovement, as tactical differences with the revisionists and splits on this"

Lenin

In this 1960 poster, Lenin portrait is outlined on a red background next to a rocket that takes off towards the stars and the flags of the USSR and other states of the socialist bloc: China, Albania; Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam and GDR.

"1870-1960" "Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, the world system of socialism was born and is developing powerfully, which is now exerting a decisive influence on the fate of mankind." (on the newspaper "Pravda")

Artist: Shaya Noevich Melamud (1911-1993). Publishing house "Artist of the RSFSR. Leningrad. 1960.

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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich.

Moscow: Progress.

Now in capitalist countries cities are mostly adorned with abstract sculptures. Such a genre of art illustrates the anti-popular character and corrupt nature of contemporary imperialism, in which spiritual and cultural life is impoverished, and reflects its decadent social climate. In socialist society, urban spaces are adorned with graceful and meaningful sculptures, thus promoting the full flourishing of the healthy and noble spiritual and cultural life of workers.

—Kim Jong Il, Selected Works , vol. XII, Editions in foreign languages, Pyongyang 2008, p. 130.

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Poster from the Mongolian People's Republic expressing solidarity with the DPRK during the Fatherland Liberation War, 1952.

Why I’m a Marxist and a patriot – Challenge Magazine
https://challenge-magazine.org/2024/04/23/why-im-a-marxist-and-a-patriot/

We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?

"Shine Our Friendship!", soviet poster, 1960

A little night-time reading.

"U.S. imperialism, which looks like a huge monster, is in essence a paper tiger, now in the throes of its death-bed struggle. In the world of today, who actually fears whom? It is not the Vietnamese qeople, the Laotian people, the Palestinian people, the Arab people, or the people of other countries, who fear U.S. imperialism; it is U.S. imperialism which fears the people of the world. It becomes panic-stricken at the mere rustle of leaves in the wind.
Innumerable facts prove that a just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust cause finds little support. A weak nation can defeat a strong, a small nation can defeat a big. The people of a small country can certainly defeat oppression by a big country, if only they dare to rise in struggle, dare to take up arms, and grasp in their own hands the destiny of their country. This is a law of history"

Mao Zedong

"To the old world, the world of national oppression, national bickering, and national isolation, the workers counterpose a new world, a world of unity between the working people of all nations, a worid in which there is no place for any privileges or for the slightest degree of oppression of man by man"

Lenin

On this day in 1960, mass protests erupted in the Republic of Korea (ROK, commonly referred to as South Korea). Koreans rose up against the oppressive rule of US-backed President Syngman Rhee, who, as the first-ever President of the ROK, governed the country since its establishment in 1948. In a matter of just 15 days, Rhee was forced to resign and fled to the US.

During Rhee’s rule, marked by his vehement anti-communism, the ROK witnessed numerous civilian massacres and human rights abuses perpetrated by the military, police, fascist paramilitary groups, and the US before, during, and after the Korean War (1950-1953). Under the pretext of combating communism, an estimated one million civilians were killed through mass executions and scorched-earth anti-guerrilla campaigns.

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