No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern #materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by #Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

#Lenin, The Significance of Militant #Materialism (1922)
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In addition to the alliance with consistent materialists who do not belong to the Communist Party, of no less and perhaps oven of more importance for the work which militant materialism should perform is an alliance with those modern natural scientists who incline towards materialism and are not afraid to defend and preach it as against the modish philosophical wanderings into idealism and scepticism which are prevalent in so-called educated society.

The article by A. Timiryazev on Einstein’s theory of relativity published in Pod Znamenem Marksizma No. 1-2 permits us to hope that the journal will succeed in effecting this second alliance too. Greater attention should be paid to it. It should be remembered that the sharp upheaval which modern natural science is undergoing very often gives rise to reactionary philosophical schools and minor schools. trends and minor trends. Unless, therefore, the problems raised by the recent revolution in natural science are followed, and unless natural scientists are enlisted in the work of a philosophical journal, militant materialism can be neither militant nor materialism. Timiryazev was obliged to observe in the first issue of the journal that the theory of Einstein, who, according to Timiryazev, is himself not making any active attack on the foundations of materialism, has already been seized upon by a vast number of bourgeois intellectuals of all countries; it should be noted that this applies not only to Einstein, but to a number, if not to the majority, of the great reformers of natural science since the end of the nineteenth century.

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V. I. Lenin
On the Significance of Militant Materialism

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"We are proud that the Bolshevik organization of Baku and Azerbaijan was created, nurtured and hardened in battles by Comrade Stalin", soviet azerbaijani poster, 1949

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On December 7, 1953, three students—Ahmad Ghandchi, Shariat Razavi, and Mehdi Bozorg-Nia—were killed at the University of Tehran during protests against the Shah's regime and foreign domination. This tragedy occurred just months after the U.S.- and British-backed coup on August 19, 1953, which overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, known for nationalizing Iran’s oil. The students were protesting the visit of U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, who represented Washington’s support for the Shah’s autocratic rule. Their deaths marked a pivotal moment in the struggle against internal oppression and external imperialism, making December 7 a symbol of resistance and student activism in Iran.

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Argentinians are calling on unions to escalate and organize a general strike. The pauperization of the people in Argentina is widespread given the skyrocketing rates of hunger and poverty under the ultra neoliberal President Javier Milei.

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