“The working class cannot play its world-revolutionary role unless it wages a ruthless struggle against this backsliding, spinelessness, subservience to opportunism, and unparalleled vulgarisation of the theories of Marxism. Kautskyism is not fortuitous; it is the social product of the contradictions within the Second International, a blend of loyalty to Marxism in word and subordination to opportunism in deed” (G. Zinoviev and N. Lenin, Socialism and War, Geneva, 1915, pp. 13–14).
Again, in my book Imperialism, the Latest Stage of Capitalism, [This was the original title of Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.] written in 1916 and published in Petrograd in 1917, I examined in detail the theoretical fallacy of all Kautsky’s arguments about imperialism. I quoted Kautsky’s definition of imperialism: “Imperialism is a product of highly developed industrial capitalism. It consists in the striving of every industrial capitalist nation to bring under its control or to annex all large areas of agrarian [Kautsky’s italics] territory, irrespective of what nations inhabit it.” I showed how utterly incorrect this definition was, and how it was “adapted” to the glossing over of the most profound contradictions of imperialism, and then to reconciliation with opportunism. I gave my own definition of imperialism: “Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; at which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; at which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; at which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.” I showed that Kautsky’s critique of imperialism is on an even lower plane than the bourgeois, philistine critique.
Vladimir Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
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It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work.
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, 63.
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According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work.
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, 63.
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We are not utopians. We know that an unskilled laborer or a cook cannot immediately get on with the job of state administration. In this we agree with the Cadets, with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. We differ, however, from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the prejudiced view that only the rich, or officials chosen from rich families, are capable of administering the state, of performing the ordinary, everyday work of administration. We demand that training in the work of state administration be conducted by class-conscious workers and soldiers and that this training be begun at once, i.e., that a beginning be made at once in training all the working people, all the poor, for this work.
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Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?
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On this day, 26 December 1862 the largest mass execution in US history took place when 38 Native American Dakota people were hanged during the US-Dakota War of 1862.
Hundreds of Native Americans had been arrested and given brief military trials, accused of crimes like murder, robbery and rape. Most of the defendants did not speak English, and had no lawyers. Some of the trials lasted less than five minutes, and many defendants did not even know that they were on trial for various crimes. One man who was aware of his situation, Hdainyanka (Rattling Runner), wrote a letter complaining to a relative: "I have not killed, wounded or injured a white man or any white persons… and yet today I am set apart for execution."
Following the show trials, 303 Dakota people were sentenced to death. President Abraham Lincoln personally reviewed all of the cases, and despite the clear miscarriage of justice, he approved the death penalty in 38 cases.
4000 white people assembled to watch the hangings, throwing stones and bricks at the prisoners and guards, and cheering on the executions.
The names of those killed were: Tipi-hdo-niche, Wyata-tonwan, Taju-xa, Hinhan-shoon-koyag-mani, Maza-bomidu, Wapa-duta, Wahena, Sna-mani, Hdainyanka, Dowan niye, Xunka ska, Hepan, Tunkan icha ta mani, Ite duta, Amdacha, Hepidan, Marpiya te najin, Henry Milord, Dan Little, Baptiste Campbell, Tate kage, Hapinkpa, Hypolite Auge, Nape shuha, Wakan tanka, Tunkan koyag I najin, Maka te najin, Pazi kuta mani, Tate hdo dan, Waxicun na, Aichaga, Ho tan inku, Cetan hunka, Had hin hda, Chanka hdo, Oyate tonwan, Mehu we mea, and Wakinyan na.
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Hundreds of Native Americans had been arrested and given brief military trials, accused of crimes like murder, robbery and rape. Most of the defendants did not speak English, and had no lawyers. Some of the trials lasted less than five minutes, and many defendants did not even know that they were on trial for various crimes. One man who was aware of his situation, Hdainyanka (Rattling Runner), wrote a letter complaining to a relative: "I have not killed, wounded or injured a white man or any white persons… and yet today I am set apart for execution."
Following the show trials, 303 Dakota people were sentenced to death. President Abraham Lincoln personally reviewed all of the cases, and despite the clear miscarriage of justice, he approved the death penalty in 38 cases.
4000 white people assembled to watch the hangings, throwing stones and bricks at the prisoners and guards, and cheering on the executions.
The names of those killed were: Tipi-hdo-niche, Wyata-tonwan, Taju-xa, Hinhan-shoon-koyag-mani, Maza-bomidu, Wapa-duta, Wahena, Sna-mani, Hdainyanka, Dowan niye, Xunka ska, Hepan, Tunkan icha ta mani, Ite duta, Amdacha, Hepidan, Marpiya te najin, Henry Milord, Dan Little, Baptiste Campbell, Tate kage, Hapinkpa, Hypolite Auge, Nape shuha, Wakan tanka, Tunkan koyag I najin, Maka te najin, Pazi kuta mani, Tate hdo dan, Waxicun na, Aichaga, Ho tan inku, Cetan hunka, Had hin hda, Chanka hdo, Oyate tonwan, Mehu we mea, and Wakinyan na.
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What kind of spirit is this that makes a foreigner selflessly adopt the cause of the Chinese people's liberation as his own? It is the spirit of internationalism, the spirit of communism, from which every Chinese Communist must learn.... We must unite with the proletariat of all the capitalist countries, with the proletariat of Japan, Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy and all other capitalist countries, before it is possible to overthrow imperialism, to liberate our nation and people, and to liberate the other nations and peoples of the world. This is our internationalism, the internationalism with which we oppose both narrow nationalism and narrow patriotism.
Mao Tse Tung
“In Memory of Norman Bethune” (December 21, 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 337.
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🔴 The Climate Crisis: How Capitalism Destroys the Earth
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“the individual manufacturer or merchant sells a manufactured or purchased commodity with the usual coveted profit, he is satisfied and does not concern himself with what afterwards becomes of the commodity and its purchasers. The same thing applies to the natural effects of the same actions. What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertiliser for one generation of very highly profitable tropical coffee trees—what cared they that the heavy tropical rainfall afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of the soil, leaving behind only bare rock!”
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🔴 Israel ‘wiping Gazans out of existence’
Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report
MSF’s secretary-general Christopher Lockyear said Israel was guilty of dismantling the infrastructure in Gaza that was essential for life and had strangled access to humanitarian aid in the besieged enclave.
He said:
We are seeing forced displacements, ethnic cleansing in the north, the destruction of infrastructure, physical and mental injuries to the population in Gaza and all of this is undeniable.
The report said:
Attacks on civilians, the dismantling of the healthcare system, the deprivation of food, water and supplies are a form of collective punishment inflicted by the Israeli authorities on the people of Gaza.
This must stop now.
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Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report
MSF’s secretary-general Christopher Lockyear said Israel was guilty of dismantling the infrastructure in Gaza that was essential for life and had strangled access to humanitarian aid in the besieged enclave.
He said:
We are seeing forced displacements, ethnic cleansing in the north, the destruction of infrastructure, physical and mental injuries to the population in Gaza and all of this is undeniable.
The report said:
Attacks on civilians, the dismantling of the healthcare system, the deprivation of food, water and supplies are a form of collective punishment inflicted by the Israeli authorities on the people of Gaza.
This must stop now.
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Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report
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They blame us for the destruction caused by our revolution. And who are those who accuse us? The bourgeoisie, the same bourgeois who in the four years of the imperialist war destroyed almost all European culture, causing barbarism, madness and hunger. That same bourgeoisie demands from us a revolution that is not based on destruction, since the bourgeoisie has previously destroyed everything. Oh, how humane this bourgeoisie is! The bourgeoisie and its servants accuse us of terror. The English bourgeoisie forgot their year 1649, and the French bourgeoisie forgot that their terror was fair and legal when the bourgeoisie carried it out for their benefit and against feudalism. Yet terror is when workers have dared to use it to overthrow a minority of exploiters.
Lenin, Letter to American Workers, August 20, 1918.
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On this day, 27 December 1923, Japanese communist, Daisuke Nanba, attempted to assassinate the crown prince to avenge the deaths of three anarchists – Kōtoku Shūsui, Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe – at the hands of the state.
Daisuke attempted to shoot crown prince Hirohito with a pistol through the window of his carriage at the Toranomon intersection in Tokyo. The bullet smashed a window on the carriage, but missed Hirohito.
Daisuke was subsequently arrested, sentenced to death and executed two days after being sentenced.
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Daisuke attempted to shoot crown prince Hirohito with a pistol through the window of his carriage at the Toranomon intersection in Tokyo. The bullet smashed a window on the carriage, but missed Hirohito.
Daisuke was subsequently arrested, sentenced to death and executed two days after being sentenced.
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On this day, 27 December 1831, the Christmas rebellion in Jamaica escalated as 60,000 of the country's 300,000 enslaved people went on strike and rose up against slavery.
It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more free time. The plantation owners rejected the demands, and so on December 27, enslaved people on the Kensington estate downed tools and set their sugarcane fields on fire. The rebels organised their own military units, and travelled through other estates, burning buildings and crops and recruiting others to join them.
Lasting 11 days, it was the biggest revolt of enslaved people in the British Caribbean colonies, and cost over £50 million damages in current money. While only 14 whites were killed, over 500 Black people were killed or executed in the aftermath. But as a result slavery across the British Caribbean was largely abolished two years later.
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It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more free time. The plantation owners rejected the demands, and so on December 27, enslaved people on the Kensington estate downed tools and set their sugarcane fields on fire. The rebels organised their own military units, and travelled through other estates, burning buildings and crops and recruiting others to join them.
Lasting 11 days, it was the biggest revolt of enslaved people in the British Caribbean colonies, and cost over £50 million damages in current money. While only 14 whites were killed, over 500 Black people were killed or executed in the aftermath. But as a result slavery across the British Caribbean was largely abolished two years later.
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