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
#Antifascist #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?
theredstream
#Picaso #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
#Music #Song #Art
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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
#Lenin #Parlimantarism
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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
#Stalin
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🔴 A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
✍🏻 Originally published: Amazon Worker Solidarity
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✍🏻 Originally published: Amazon Worker Solidarity
Amazon Worker Solidarity sought to understand how Amazon makes it money to inform organizing strategy in the Amazon movement. Our research team investigated how Amazon, a merchant capitalist firm, controls a network through which suppliers and sellers distribute and store commodity capital. Mastering competition and circulation time in its warehouses results in Amazon’s competitive dominance in the logistics industry and beyond.
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#Amazon #Capitalism #Capitalist #Article
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Wealth and poverty (And to all a good night) (Photo: Nic McPhee / Flickr)
🔴 The Dialectics of Wealth and Poverty
✍🏻 Prabhat Patnaik
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🔴 The Dialectics of Wealth and Poverty
✍🏻 Prabhat Patnaik
THIS year’s Nobel Prize in economics (the Riksbank Prize to be more precise) has been awarded to three US-based economists for their research into what promotes or hinders the growth of wealth among nations; and they assign a crucial role to institutions, arguing that western institutions like electoral democracy are conducive to growth. Where colonialism led to the promotion of what they call “inclusive institutions” such as in settler colonies, growth flourished, but elsewhere in the colonial empire where colonialism set up “extractive institutions”, they turned out to be harmful for growth.
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#Capitalism #EconomicTheory #Financialization #PoliticalEconomy
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Proletarian dictatorship is the sole means of defending the working people against the oppression of capital, the violence of bourgeois military dictatorship, and imperialist war.
Proletarian dictatorship is the sole step to equality and democracy in practice, not on paper, but in life, not in political phrase-mongering, but in economic reality.
Vladimir Lenin
Greetings To Italian, French and German Communists
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Proletarian dictatorship is the sole step to equality and democracy in practice, not on paper, but in life, not in political phrase-mongering, but in economic reality.
Vladimir Lenin
Greetings To Italian, French and German Communists
#Lenin #DictatorshipOfTheProletariat
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