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On this day, 18 October 1977, former Nazi war criminal and SS officer Martin Schleyer was killed by the Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group).After World War II, Schleyer was briefly imprisoned as a prisoner of war for his SS activities, but he got a shorter sentence by lying about his rank and pretending to be more junior than he was. Like many former Nazis in West Germany, Schleyer was swiftly installed back in a position of power, and became head of the German Employers' Association, known for his tough opposition to unions and strikes. The RAF kidnapped him on September 5, demanding an exchange for 11 RAF prisoners. However, when three of the prisoners were found dead, the RAF shot Schleyer and left his body in the boot of a car in Mulhouse, France.

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… [W]hat is most important, that which constitutes the very gist, the living soul, of Marxism—is a concrete analysis of a concrete situation ...

V. I. Lenin

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🔴 Marxism-Leninism Study Guide for Beginners:

Overview

1- The Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels
2- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, V. I. Lenin
3- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels
4- Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
5- The Foundations of Leninism, J. V. Stalin

Philosophy

1- Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Friedrich Engels
2- Dialectical and Historical Materialism, J. V. Stalin
3- Anarchism or Socialism?, J. V. Stalin
4- Anti-Dühring (Part I: Philosophy), Friedrich Engels

The State

1- The State, V. I. Lenin
2- “Democracy” and Dictatorship, V. I. Lenin
3- The State and Revolution, V. I. Lenin
4- The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels

Political Economy

1- Wage Labor and Capital, Karl Marx
2- Value, Price, and Profit, Karl Marx
3- Marx’s Economic Doctrine, V. I. Lenin
4- Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, V. I. Lenin
5- Capital (Volume 1), Karl Marx

Socialism

1- Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx
2- Economics and Politics in the era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, V. I. Lenin
3- On the Slogan for a United States of Europe, V. I. Lenin
4- 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union, (the “Stalin Constitution”)
5- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, J. V. Stalin

Anarchism or Marxism?

1- Anarchist Nonsense, Friedrich Engels
2- On Authority, Friedrich Engels
3- Anarchism or Socialism?, J. V. Stalin
4- The State and Revolution, V. I. Lenin

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

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You speak of a conflict of opinion among the workers and peasants at the present time, under the proletarian dictatorship. I have said already that conflict of opinion exists and will exist in the future, that no progress is possible without this, but conflict of opinion among the workers under present conditions centers not around the question of principle of the overthrow of the Soviet system, but around practical questions like the improvement of the Soviets, the rectification of errors committed by the Soviet organs and, consequently, of consolidating the Soviet rule. Such a conflict of opinion can only serve to strengthen and perfect the Communist Party. Such conflict of opinion can only serve to strengthen the monopoly of the Communist Party. Such a conflict of opinion cannot provide nourishment for other parties within the working class and among the toiling peasantry.

Joseph Stalin
Interview With the First American Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia

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Notice the way in which the capitalists are trying to escape from the economic crisis. They are reducing the workers' wages as much as possible. They are reducing the prices of raw materials as much as possible. But they do not want to reduce the prices of food and industrial commodities for mass consumption to any important extent. This means that they want to escape from the crisis at the expense of the principal consumers, at the expense of the workers and peasants, at the expense of the working people. The capitalists are cutting the ground from under their own feet. And instead of overcoming the crisis they are aggravating it; new conditions are accumulating which lead to a new, even more severe crisis.

Joseph Stalin
The Tasks of Business Executives

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Displaced Gazans were asked to react to a react speech by Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, in which she justifies Israel’s bombing of civilians.

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'Our path is the right one' (Russian #poster by Vladimir Kononov/ Izdatel'stvo Plakat, Moscow. Soviet Union, 1982).

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'Do not forget about the capitalist encirclement, remember that foreign intelligence will send spies, murderers, wreckers into our country' (Russian #cartoon by Konstantin Stepanovich Eliseev for Bezbozhnik magazine, April 1939. Soviet Union, 1939).

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Carta al Che

Su presencia Comandante
está viva, está lozana,
en la vida cotidiana,
en el trabajo gigante.

Aquí se mantiene erguida
la conciencia firme y clara
Comandante Che Guevara
del ejemplo de su vida.

Estribillo:

Comandante, Comandante,
Comandante Che Guevara.
Aquí seguimos queriendo
la aurora profunda y clara
de su presencia gigante.

Aquí seguimos lo mismo
con el arma siempre lista
ante la sombra fascista
y cruel del imperialismo.

Aquí se mantiene clara
en el dolor de su ausencia
la aurora de su presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

Estribillo

Aquí estamos Comandante
y todos puestos de acuerdo
con la luz de su recuerdo
seguiremos adelante.

Estribillo


Lyrics/Music: Carlos Puebla, 1969 (Cuba)

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While German police deploys K-9 units to a pro-Palestine protest, hardline Neo-Nazis are free to march through the city with only a handful of police present; only in Germany.

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#FreePalestine #Police #Nazi #Germany #ACAB #1312

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