The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution.
Joseph Stalin
The Foundations of Leninism
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Joseph Stalin
The Foundations of Leninism
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A world where our grandchildren have to go to a museum to see what a gun looked like
Vijay Prashad
In the aftermath of the war, Virginia Woolf wrote in her novel Mrs. Dalloway of a former soldier who, overcome by fear, uttered, ‘The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames’.This sentiment not only holds true of this former soldier’s post-traumatic stress disorder:it is how nearly everyone feels, besieged by fears of a world engulfed in flames and being unable to do anything to prevent it.
Those words resonate today,as NATO’s provocations in Ukraine put the possibility of nuclear winter on the table and the US and Israel commit genocide against the Palestinian people as the world watches in horror.Remembering these words today makes one wonder:can we awake from this century-long nightmare,rub our eyes, and realise that life can go on without war? Such a wonder comes from a fit of hope, not from any real evidence.We are tired of carnage and death.We want a permanent end to war
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Vijay Prashad
In the aftermath of the war, Virginia Woolf wrote in her novel Mrs. Dalloway of a former soldier who, overcome by fear, uttered, ‘The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames’.This sentiment not only holds true of this former soldier’s post-traumatic stress disorder:it is how nearly everyone feels, besieged by fears of a world engulfed in flames and being unable to do anything to prevent it.
Those words resonate today,as NATO’s provocations in Ukraine put the possibility of nuclear winter on the table and the US and Israel commit genocide against the Palestinian people as the world watches in horror.Remembering these words today makes one wonder:can we awake from this century-long nightmare,rub our eyes, and realise that life can go on without war? Such a wonder comes from a fit of hope, not from any real evidence.We are tired of carnage and death.We want a permanent end to war
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Today 70 years ago, Algeria launched its independence war against France, leading to a long and arduous struggle led by the Algerian National Liberation Front. The armed struggle of the Algerians tore down a system of racial and religious segregation, political disenfranchisement, and economic oppression.
The armed struggle of the Algerian people gave birth to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, a nominally socialist state in North Africa that became a role model for other colonized peoples on the African continent and around the world.
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The armed struggle of the Algerian people gave birth to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, a nominally socialist state in North Africa that became a role model for other colonized peoples on the African continent and around the world.
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#Algeria #France #independence
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