The elements of democratic and socialist culture, are present, if only in rudimentary form, in every national culture since in every nation there are toiling and exploited masses, whose condition of life inevitably gives rise to the ideology of democracy and socialism.
But every nation also possesses a bourgeois culture (and most nations a reactionary and clerical culture as well) in the form not merely of “elements”, but of the dominant culture ... In advancing this slogan of ’the international culture of democracy and of the world working class movement’ we take from each national culture only its democratic and socialist elements, we take them only and absolutely in opposition to the bourgeois culture and the bourgeois nationalism of each nation.’

Lenin, Critical Remarks on the National Question, Collected Works, Vol.20, 1913

The more I look into the Soviet "dissidents" of the 1920s and 1930s the more the naked class hatred pours out of them in their writings. Their US handlers massaged this a bit more in the post 1945 period but it still comes down to the same thing. The old ruling class and those who adopt bourgeois ideology feel "insulted" because they lived in a country that valued the farmer, steel worker, train driver or cleaner as much as the "intellectual".

Клиника "Пирамиде ам Зее"
Цюрих, Швейцария

Архитектор: Юстус Дахинден

Год постройки: 1967

🏢Brutalism

“You can’t do it without us,” the intellectuals who are accustomed to serving the capitalists and the capitalist state console themselves. Their arrogant calculation will not be justified: educated people are already standing out, going over to the side of the people, to the side of the working people, helping to break the resistance of the servants of capital. But there are many organizational talents in the peasantry and working class, and these talents are just beginning to recognize themselves, to awaken, to reach out to lively, creative, great work, to take on the task of building a socialist society on their own."

- Lenin

«Знакомство с Лениным»

"The first step towards freeing the working people from this hard labor is the confiscation of landowners' lands, the introduction of workers' control, and the nationalization of banks. The next steps will be the nationalization of factories and factories, the forced organization of the entire population into consumer societies, which are at the same time companies for the sale of products, a state monopoly of trade in bread and other necessary items."

The latest Lalkar is out now! Featuring articles on Russia-DPRK relations, the British election and the coalition government in South Africa.

http://www.lalkar.org/

The challenge is to Learn!

Artist - M. Mitryashkin - 1958

Deadly clashes continue to grip Bangladesh, where the death toll rose to at least 14 as police opened fire on protesters. With more than 7,000 government paramilitary troops deployed, more than 500 people have been injured since the protests turned fatal earlier this week.

Witness testimonies, video, and photographic evidence analyzed and authenticated by Amnesty International and its Crisis Evidence Lab have confirmed the use of force by police against the protesters.

Amid the escalating violence, the government announced that it would engage in dialogue with the students protesting the reinstatement of discriminatory quotas for government jobs. The students, however, have rejected the government’s proposal for talks.

The students continue to call for a nationwide shutdown of the South Asian country as protests spread to other parts of the country beyond the capital, Dhaka.

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"The Last Bus", 1955

Ilya Sergeevich Glazunov

"Vigilantly guard the people's property!"
1942.

For those who missed it the first time: Harpal Brar and Caleb Maupin talk with each other (and with me) about the inextricable link between the present imperialist system and war.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/07/19/tv/caleb-maupin-harpal-brar-imperialism-and-war/