Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
This political economy or science of enrichment born of the merchants’ mutual envy and greed, bears on its brow the mark of the most detestable selfishness. People still lived in the naive belief that gold and silver were wealth, and therefore considered nothing more urgent than the prohibition everywhere of the export of the “precious” metals. The nations faced each other like misers, each clasping to himself with both arms his precious money-bag, eyeing his neighbours with envy and distrust. Every conceivable means was employed to lure from the nations with whom one had commerce as much ready cash as possible, and to retain snugly within the customs-boundary all which had happily been gathered in.
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy by Frederick Engels
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This political economy or science of enrichment born of the merchants’ mutual envy and greed, bears on its brow the mark of the most detestable selfishness. People still lived in the naive belief that gold and silver were wealth, and therefore considered nothing more urgent than the prohibition everywhere of the export of the “precious” metals. The nations faced each other like misers, each clasping to himself with both arms his precious money-bag, eyeing his neighbours with envy and distrust. Every conceivable means was employed to lure from the nations with whom one had commerce as much ready cash as possible, and to retain snugly within the customs-boundary all which had happily been gathered in.
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy by Frederick Engels
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Lenin by P. Staronosov, USSR 1935
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"We are not saying anything new. Today everybody, even the colonialists and imperialists, fully realizes that without the victorious Great October Revolution, without the establishment and consolidation of the world's first socialist state—the Soviet Union—and without the successful continuation of Lenin's cause, the oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America would have remained in the darkness of colonial slavery. The political map of the world would have looked quite different, for the anti-imperialist, national-liberation movement would not have assumed the scope and power it has today. Everybody knows that the Leninist analysis of imperialism and imperialist domination is a powerful weapon for the national-liberation movement and all forces fighting imperialism."
- Quote from 1971, Jorge del Prado, General Secretary of the Peruvian Communist Party
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'#Lenin - #October' (Russian #poster by A. Kapitan/ Izdatel'stvo Plakat, Moscow. Soviet Union, 1987).
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https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/19/brics-russia-multi-currency-system-us-dollar/
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BRICS plans ‘multi-currency system’ to challenge US dollar dominance: Understanding Russia’s proposal
The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative (BCBPI) will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia's finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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But under no circumstances ought we to fall into the error of posing the religious question in an abstract, idealistic fashion, as an “intellectual” question unconnected with the class struggle, as is not infrequently done by the radical-democrats from among the bourgeoisie. It would be stupid to think that, in a society based on the endless oppression and coarsening of the worker masses, religious prejudices could be dispelled by purely propaganda methods. It would be bourgeois narrow-mindedness to forget that the yoke of religion that weighs upon mankind is merely a product and reflection of the economic yoke within society. No number of pamphlets and no amount of preaching can enlighten the proletariat, if it is not enlightened by its own struggle against the dark forces of capitalism.
Unity in this really revolutionary struggle of the oppressed class for the creation of a paradise on earth is more important to us than unity of proletarian opinion on paradise in heaven.
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Unity in this really revolutionary struggle of the oppressed class for the creation of a paradise on earth is more important to us than unity of proletarian opinion on paradise in heaven.
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On this day, 25 October 1943, anti-fascist partisans cut the power to Villa Spada, a mansion in the Marche region of central Italy, before carrying out an attack on the carabinieri (Italian military police) guarding it. The mansion was being used as an arms depot and to hold East African prisoners.Partisans surrounded the villa and entered by climbing the 4-5 metre external walls. Inside, they were attacked by guard dogs, which alerted the guards and resulted in a firefight lasting 2-4 hours.It ended with the surrender of the garrison which had four wounded; two partisans were lightly wounded. The action yielded 16 machine guns and submachine guns; hand grenades, rifles, and revolvers.Many of the freed prisoners subsequently joined the two partisan units (the 'Mario' and 'Roti' groups). From that moment, the partisan brigades of the area - in addition to Australians, French, British, Yugoslavs and Russians who had escaped from prison camps - also included Ethiopians, Somalis and Eritreans.
Working Class History
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On this day, 25 October 1943, anti-fascist partisans cut the power to Villa Spada, a mansion in the Marche region of central Italy, before carrying out an attack on the carabinieri (Italian military police) guarding it. The mansion was being used as an arms depot and to hold East African prisoners.Partisans surrounded the villa and entered by climbing the 4-5 metre external walls. Inside, they were attacked by guard dogs, which alerted the guards and resulted in a firefight lasting 2-4 hours.It ended with the surrender of the garrison which had four wounded; two partisans were lightly wounded. The action yielded 16 machine guns and submachine guns; hand grenades, rifles, and revolvers.Many of the freed prisoners subsequently joined the two partisan units (the 'Mario' and 'Roti' groups). From that moment, the partisan brigades of the area - in addition to Australians, French, British, Yugoslavs and Russians who had escaped from prison camps - also included Ethiopians, Somalis and Eritreans.
Working Class History
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Today is Pablo Picasso’s birthday. He was a proud member of the French Communist
Party, but did you know that he had a falling out with them over a drawing he did of
Stalin?
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Party, but did you know that he had a falling out with them over a drawing he did of
Stalin?
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"Songs of the Years of Fire"- Soviet Animated Musical
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Songs of Fiery Years is a collection of Soviet-era songs that capture the spirit, struggles, and triumphs of the Soviet Union during key historical periods, such as the October Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the rapid industrialization of the 1930s, and the Great Patriotic War (World War II, from the Soviet perspective).
"Songs of the Years of Fire"- Soviet Animated Musical
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"Songs of the Years of Fire"- Soviet Animated Musical
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Once every few years to decide which member of the ruling class will suppress, crush the people in parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
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Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
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There is no, nor should there be, irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of the individual person and the interests of the collective. There should be no such contrast, because collectivism, socialism, does not deny, but combines individual interests with the interests of the collective. Socialism cannot abstract itself from individual interests. Socialist society alone can most fully satisfy these personal interests. More than that; socialist society alone can firmly safeguard the interests of the individual. In this sense there is no irreconcilable contrast between "individualism" and socialism.
J. V. Stalin
MARXISM VERSUS LIBERALISM
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J. V. Stalin
MARXISM VERSUS LIBERALISM
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