Cubist statues of Marx and Engels in Budapest, Hungary, 1971

"Vota Comunista". A Sputnik-style car used by the Italian Communist Party during the 1958 Italian general elections.

Ernesto Che Guevara in a kindergarten in Shanghai during a state visit to the People's Republic of China in November 1960

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960

There is not a people in the world that wants war' — Soviet poster (1936) showing a worker catching a Nazi's arm as he throws a bomb. Artist: Boris Klinch.

'Karl and the dwarfs' — Soviet caricature (1933) showing Marx towering over figures representing capitalism, fascism, revisionism and the church. Artist: Boris Efimov.

🔴 Western Marxism, Anti-Communism and Imperialism
✍🏻 Immanuel Ness

Following the Russian Revolution, some Western Marxists began to replace support for revolution and fledgling socialist, instead promoting liberal-democracy and social reform in Europe and North America, restoring a position taken by the Second International before the Second World War. In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Georg Lukács, a supporter of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union, published History and Class Consciousness (HCC) in German in1923, which paradoxically supplied the oxygen for Western Marxism over the next century by channeling class into a relationship between subject and object, appropriating the abstract Hegelian notion of class consciousness over a grounded historical materialism advanced by Karl Marx in Capital (1867) and Friedrich Engels in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1907). For Marx and Engels, class consciousness is a direct extension of the material being of the worker, but in HCC Lukács pursues the notion of working-class subjectivity as expressed in the communist party, a view which modifies class struggle from material dialectics into a philosophical abstraction. Lukács’s HCC distinguishes the individual as the historical subject in place of privileging the working class and nature, instead asserting that individual subjectivity is the primary force which is driven by ideas and not the material world. In spite of Lukács’s intention to philosophically situate the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union as the objective organ reflecting the working class, HCC becomes the driving force of Western Marxism in Europe and North America, re-centering the proletariat as a metaphysical and abstract subject and object of an undefined history...

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Trotsky, the first to accuse Stalin, roamed freely in Mussolini’s Italy, a regime notorious for its ruthless persecution of genuine communists who were hunted like dogs. While Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, languished in prison, gravely ill, Trotsky and his wife leisurely toured sites like Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and Naples under the protection of Fascist police.

This stark irony exposes Trotsky as a figure whose actions aligned more with fascist interests than the revolutionary cause—rightly earning him the label of "a prostitute of Fascism."

🔴 Nikola Tesla on the USSR: “The Russians are lucky — they have socialism and Stalin”
✍🏻 Nikos Mottas

“I am following the situation in Russia carefully. I try to get testimonies from eyewitnesses, not from newspapers that lie non-stop. I approve of the Russian revolution because it proclaimed the principle of honesty on one-sixth of the earth's surface. The Soviet Union faces incredible trials, but the country is ready to overcome them. The Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin. A happy people with a wise leader. I envy the Russians and feel sorry for my compatriots who are ruled by three random people...”

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What was the true legacy of the late US President Jimmy Carter? Did he really attempt to challenge US imperialism or advance and legitimize it?

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🟡 NOW: German police are once again cracking down on pro-Palestine protests as solidarity activists take to Berlin’s streets under the slogan “No New Year’s celebration during genocide!”

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"In the meantime, may I wish you in advance every happiness for the New Year. If it’s anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil."

Marx To Engels
In Manchester
Dec 27, 1861

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Neither we nor anyone else can calculate precisely what portion of the proletariat is following and will follow the social-chauvinists and opportunists. This will be revealed only by the struggle, it will be definitely decided only by the socialist revolution. But we know for certain that the “defenders of the fatherland” in the imperialist war represent only a minority. And it is therefore our duty, if we wish to remain socialists to go down lower and deeper, to the real masses; this is the whole meaning and the whole purport of the struggle against opportunism. By exposing the fact that the opportunists and social-chauvinists are in reality betraying and selling the interests of the masses, that they are defending the temporary privileges of a minority of the workers, that they are the vehicles of bourgeois ideas and influences, that they are really allies and agents of the bourgeoisie, we teach the masses to appreciate their true political interests, to fight for socialism and for the revolution through all the long and painful vicissitudes of imperialist wars and imperialist armistices.

The only Marxist line in the world labour movement is to explain to the masses the inevitability and necessity of breaking with opportunism, to educate them for revolution by waging a relentless struggle against opportunism, to utilise the experience of the war to expose, not conceal, the utter vileness of national-liberal labour politics.

V. I. Lenin
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

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Homelessness in US

The number of homeless people living in shelters or on the streets topped 770,000 this year, according to the annual report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development released Friday, a rise of 18 percent over 2023. That is more homeless people than the population of Seattle, Detroit, Boston or Atlanta. Homeless Americans outnumber the inhabitants of Washington DC, the capital city of the richest country in the world.

The estimate is also a gross underestimate of the real scale of homelessness in America. It is based on a one-day “point-in-time” survey conducted every January in cities throughout the country. That methodology ensures a low count, since it is conducted during the coldest period of the year, when very few people can live unsheltered in northern cities, many of which bar evictions and utility shutoffs during the winter for that reason.

Moreover, the survey took place in January 2024, 11 months ago, so it does not include the tens of thousands driven from their homes by natural disasters like Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Nor does it reflect the deepening social crisis, in which rising interest rates, soaring rents, and shrinking real wages have made it increasingly difficult for working class families to pay their most important expense, housing.

It is thus quite likely that the homeless population is well past one million, and that the number of people who experience homelessness for some part of the year is millions higher than that.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/30/xpdj-d30.html