🔴 Lenin’s contributions to political economy
✍🏻 Raju J Das

Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.1 His 1899 book, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, is a model of Karl Marx’s Capital for the 20th century and an exemplar of the class approach to political economy. His writings on imperialism, including his book, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, innovatively develop some of the themes from Marx’s general law of accumulation presented in Chapter 25 of Capital Vol 1. They demonstrate the power of Marxist political economy when conducted at the global scale, as opposed to local and national scales. Lenin remained wedded to the labour theory of value, the theory of surplus value and the doctrine of class struggle. An avowed internationalist, he was deeply sensitive to the specificities of the Global South.
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Some good news! Thailand just legalized same-sex marriage. The bill also includes gender-neutral terminology, replacing “husbands” and “wives” with “individuals.” Watch to learn more about the breakthrough law.

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On this day, 25 September 1970, LGBT+ activists in the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) launched a sit in of the Weinstein Hall, part of New York University (NYU). The action came after the university suddenly banned queer dances which were regularly put on by the GLF which had up to 400 attendees, who were seeking alternative venues to gay bars run by the Mafia. Trans activist Sylvia Rivera, who took part in the occupation, explained: "It happened when there had been several gay dances there and all of a sudden the plug was pulled because the rich families were offended that queers and d*kes were having dances and their impressionable children were going to be harmed." The occupiers demanded the reinstatement of the contractually-agreed dances, as well as an end to homophobic teaching and free tuition for gay people and other oppressed minorities. Rather than agree the demands, NYU had security guards lock the doors of the hall, then let in dozens of police officers with helmets and clubs to evict the protesters. Rivera and her friend, Marsha P. Johnson, who also participated in the occupation, subsequently founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR) to provide housing and support for homeless gay and gender nonconforming use. Rivera recounted: "STAR House was born out of the Weinstein Hall demonstration because there were so many of us living together."

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Unlike the anarchists, the Marxists recognise struggle for reforms, i.e.for measures that improve the conditions of the working people without destroying the power of the ruling class. At the same time, however,the Marxists wage a most resolute struggle against the reformists, who, directly or indirectly, restrict the aims and activities of the working class to the winning of reforms. Reformism is bourgeois deception of the workers,who, despite individual improvements,will always remain wage-slaves, as long as there is the domination of capital.
The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery.For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.

The only Marxist line in the world labour movement is to explain to the masses the inevitability and necessity of breaking with opportunism, to educate them for revolution by waging a relentless struggle against opportunism, to utilise the experience of the war to expose, not conceal, the utter vileness of national-liberal labour politics.

V. I. Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

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The ‘Crush Nazism’ monument outside Oslo Central Station

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A couple shares a kiss during the World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin, GDR, in 1973. This festival, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth, was a major event that brought together young people from socialist countries and progressive movements worldwide. Held under the slogan "For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace, and Friendship," the festival symbolized the spirit of international solidarity and the hope for a united socialist future. East Berlin, as the capital of the German Democratic Republic, hosted thousands of participants who engaged in cultural exchanges, political discussions, and demonstrations advocating for peace and socialism.

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"The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution."

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Ho Chi Minh in the Hoàng Liên Son mountain range of Vietnam, 1948

To have a good crop we must weed the field, otherwise the rice will grow badly in spite of careful ploughing and abundant manuring. To be successful in increasing production and practicing thrift, we must also weed the field, that is root out embezzlement, waste and bureaucracy. Otherwise they will harm our work.

"To Practice Thrift and Oppose Embezzlement (1952)

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Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

Joseph Stalin
Speech at the Red Army Parade
on the Red Square, Moscow
November 7, 1941
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'Spring planting' (Soviet leaflet in German by unknown artist. Dropped on German troops. With Hitler digging graves for German soldiers. Soviet Union, ca. 1943).

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'105th anniversary of #Lenin's birth' (#Polish #poster by Henryk Cylinski/ Izdatel'stvo #Warsaw. Polish People's Republic, 1960).

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86 years ago, on September 24-25, 1938, Soviet pilots V.S. Grizodubova, P.D. Osipenko and M.M. Raskova made a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East (Komsomolsk-on-Amur region) on the ANT-37 Rodina aircraft, setting a world record for non-stop flight distance for #women (6,450 km).

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Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relationships according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pining away. Let us revolt against the rule of thoughts. Let us teach men, says one, to exchange these imaginations for thoughts which correspond to the essence of man; says the second, to take up a critical attitude to them; says the third, to knock them out of their heads; and -- existing reality will collapse.

These innocent and childlike fancies are the kernel of the modern Young-Hegelian philosophy, which not only is received by the German public with horror and awe, but is announced by our philosophic heroes with the solemn consciousness of its cataclysmic dangerousness and criminal ruthlessness. The first volume of the present publication has the aim of uncloaking these sheep, who take themselves and are taken for wolves; of showing how their bleating merely imitates in a philosophic form the conceptions of the German middle class; how the boasting of these philosophic commentators only mirrors the wretchedness of the real conditions in Germany. It is its aim to debunk and discredit the philosophic struggle with the shadows of reality, which appeals to the dreamy and muddled German nation.

Once upon a time a valiant fellow had the idea that men were drowned in water only because they were possessed with the idea of gravity. If they were to knock this notion out of their heads, say by stating it to be a superstition, a religious concept, they would be sublimely proof against any danger from water. His whole life long he fought against the illusion of gravity, of whose harmful results all statistics brought him new and manifold evidence. This valiant fellow was the type of the new revolutionary philosophers in Germany.

Karl Marx
The German Ideology

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On this day, 27 September 1943, the first clashes broke out of the insurrection against Nazi occupation that would become known as the 'Four Days of Naples'.
A few days earlier, the Germans declared that all men in the city aged 18-33 were to be taken to Germany as forced labourers and anyone not reporting for deportation would be executed. The Nazis also started destroying factories, telephone exchanges, archives and other infrastructure as they planned to escape the Allied advance from the south.
However, when they tried to physically take people out of Naples, the city erupted: lorries carrying deportees were stopped, military barracks were broken into, and weapons distributed to the population.
Fighting spread throughout the city, even involving children as young as 11. By 30 September, at the cost of up to 663 deaths, the population of Naples had inflicted the Nazis' first major defeat on the Italian mainland.

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