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What is Engels' main critique of Dühring's economic theory in Antidühring?
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Dühring rejects the capitalist mode of production entirely and proposes unrealistic alternatives.
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Dühring focuses on redistributing wealth while leaving the capitalist mode of production intact.
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Dühring advocates for abolishing trade and market mechanisms in a socialist system.
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Dühring accurately applies the labor theory of value to his economic communes.
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What is Engels' main critique of Dühring's economic theory in Antidühring?
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Works of Frederick Engels 1877
Anti-Dühring
Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science
Formerly known as Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, Engels’ Anti-Dühring is a popular and enduring work which, as Engels wrote to Marx, was an attempt “to produce an encyclopaedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems.”
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Anti-Dühring
Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science
Formerly known as Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science, Engels’ Anti-Dühring is a popular and enduring work which, as Engels wrote to Marx, was an attempt “to produce an encyclopaedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems.”
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Did you know that the CIA once orchestrated the execution of today’s DR Congo’s first Prime Minister by a firing squad? On this day in 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, was executed by a firing squad following assassination plots concocted by the US and Belgian governments.
Lumumba’s anti-imperialism and vision of a united Congo made him an adversary of both Belgium and US imperialism. Although the CIA ordered his assassination, they weren’t able to carry it out themselves.
Instead, Washington and Brussels secretly funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who organized a coup and arrested Lumumba. He was then beaten, tortured, and killed.
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Lumumba’s anti-imperialism and vision of a united Congo made him an adversary of both Belgium and US imperialism. Although the CIA ordered his assassination, they weren’t able to carry it out themselves.
Instead, Washington and Brussels secretly funneled cash and aid to rival politicians who organized a coup and arrested Lumumba. He was then beaten, tortured, and killed.
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🔴 Communist Party of Denmark: Hands Off Greenland!
Greenland's dependence on Denmark is the result of colonial subjugation – not a voluntary choice. If Greenland wants to break this dependence, the choice is the Greenlanders'; but Denmark cannot run away from its obligations.
The Arctic, and thus also Greenland, has enormous geostrategic importance, among other things due to its location close to Russia and China. With the melting of the ice in the Arctic, the coveted northern corridor is moving closer to reality. Trade routes are about to change, and thus interest in Greenland and its resources increases. It is increasing as the monopolies' competition for markets globally is intensifying day by day.
It is an oversimplification to simply explain the recent worsening situation around Greenland with arguments that Donald Trump cannot be trusted. The situation is the result of huge financial interests and not the quirks of a single person.
Therefore, it is hypocritical to witness the Danish government's diplomatic dance with the USA, since Denmark itself is part of the problem for Greenland. Against the background of Denmark as an oppressive colonial power, but also as an uncritical accomplice of the United States, the Danish state is part of the imperialist alliance anchored in NATO and the United States. Denmark itself opened for the USA's military presence in Greenland a long time ago and is also about to open the door for the same in Denmark itself.
Denmark thus contributes to increasing uncertainty in the world. The hostages here are the Greenlanders, who are just a pawn in imperialism's game. The Greenlanders should, if they wish, be their own masters. The competition of monopolies for markets, raw materials and transport routes automatically leads to territorial redistribution of the world, to imperialist wars and border changes. Imperialist competition aims at supremacy and the exercise of power over weaker states and people. It aims at the monopolies' profit, profit for the few, but also at weakening opponents. That is why it is relentless and cynical. DKP believes that the people must show the way for the confrontation with the bourgeois and anti-people politics in every version, the power of capital and thus the exploitative and war-making system. The Danish government must realize that its closest ally is not doing so out of a good heart, but to secure its own financial interests. Exactly the same as is the case with Denmark's grip on Greenland. Therefore, we must respect the Greenlanders' right to determine their own destiny and speak out against any kind of increase of insecurity in the world. DKP says STOP interference by foreign powers in Greenland's affairs. Hands off Greenland!
DKP's national management, 14 January 2025
Greenland's dependence on Denmark is the result of colonial subjugation – not a voluntary choice. If Greenland wants to break this dependence, the choice is the Greenlanders'; but Denmark cannot run away from its obligations.
The Arctic, and thus also Greenland, has enormous geostrategic importance, among other things due to its location close to Russia and China. With the melting of the ice in the Arctic, the coveted northern corridor is moving closer to reality. Trade routes are about to change, and thus interest in Greenland and its resources increases. It is increasing as the monopolies' competition for markets globally is intensifying day by day.
It is an oversimplification to simply explain the recent worsening situation around Greenland with arguments that Donald Trump cannot be trusted. The situation is the result of huge financial interests and not the quirks of a single person.
Therefore, it is hypocritical to witness the Danish government's diplomatic dance with the USA, since Denmark itself is part of the problem for Greenland. Against the background of Denmark as an oppressive colonial power, but also as an uncritical accomplice of the United States, the Danish state is part of the imperialist alliance anchored in NATO and the United States. Denmark itself opened for the USA's military presence in Greenland a long time ago and is also about to open the door for the same in Denmark itself.
Denmark thus contributes to increasing uncertainty in the world. The hostages here are the Greenlanders, who are just a pawn in imperialism's game. The Greenlanders should, if they wish, be their own masters. The competition of monopolies for markets, raw materials and transport routes automatically leads to territorial redistribution of the world, to imperialist wars and border changes. Imperialist competition aims at supremacy and the exercise of power over weaker states and people. It aims at the monopolies' profit, profit for the few, but also at weakening opponents. That is why it is relentless and cynical. DKP believes that the people must show the way for the confrontation with the bourgeois and anti-people politics in every version, the power of capital and thus the exploitative and war-making system. The Danish government must realize that its closest ally is not doing so out of a good heart, but to secure its own financial interests. Exactly the same as is the case with Denmark's grip on Greenland. Therefore, we must respect the Greenlanders' right to determine their own destiny and speak out against any kind of increase of insecurity in the world. DKP says STOP interference by foreign powers in Greenland's affairs. Hands off Greenland!
DKP's national management, 14 January 2025
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🔴 On Elon Musk's live chat with the leader of the far-right AfD party
Recently, Alice Weidel, the frontwoman of Germany’s far-right AfD party, was interviewed by tycoon and Trump supporter Elon Musk. In their much-publicized virtual conversation, Weidel blurted out that Hitler was a “communist” and a “socialist” in order to show the distance that supposedly separates her from Nazism, since Hitler was “not a conservative” or “a libertarian” and that her party and she are “exactly the opposite”.
Who knows? Perhaps Weidel knows better than the industrial capitalists who supported Hitler, such as the then chairman of the Association of German Industry, Krupp. Perhaps, in her view, even the German capital that gave millions of marks to the National Socialist party, effectively bringing Hitler to power, was also communist.
Perhaps, the US monopolies of Ford, General Motors, IBM, etc., which played a catalytic role in supporting Nazism and made huge profits, were covert supporters of communism.
Or, perhaps, even the heads of Ford and IBM themselves, who were awarded the medals of the “Grand Cross” by the Third Reich, were unaware of what they were getting into with Adolf...
The henchmen of capitalism, such as the AfD, compete with the European Union in the propaganda of equating fascism with communism. This doctrine of equation is a must in order to whitewash the most barbaric form of capitalist power, fascism and Nazism, and to slander the greatest achievement of the peoples, socialism–communism and workers’ power. Therefore, the trust of business giants like Musk in such forces is a given…
Commentary of the daily newspaper “Rizospastis” , Organ of the CC of the KKE, published on 11/1/25.
Recently, Alice Weidel, the frontwoman of Germany’s far-right AfD party, was interviewed by tycoon and Trump supporter Elon Musk. In their much-publicized virtual conversation, Weidel blurted out that Hitler was a “communist” and a “socialist” in order to show the distance that supposedly separates her from Nazism, since Hitler was “not a conservative” or “a libertarian” and that her party and she are “exactly the opposite”.
Who knows? Perhaps Weidel knows better than the industrial capitalists who supported Hitler, such as the then chairman of the Association of German Industry, Krupp. Perhaps, in her view, even the German capital that gave millions of marks to the National Socialist party, effectively bringing Hitler to power, was also communist.
Perhaps, the US monopolies of Ford, General Motors, IBM, etc., which played a catalytic role in supporting Nazism and made huge profits, were covert supporters of communism.
Or, perhaps, even the heads of Ford and IBM themselves, who were awarded the medals of the “Grand Cross” by the Third Reich, were unaware of what they were getting into with Adolf...
The henchmen of capitalism, such as the AfD, compete with the European Union in the propaganda of equating fascism with communism. This doctrine of equation is a must in order to whitewash the most barbaric form of capitalist power, fascism and Nazism, and to slander the greatest achievement of the peoples, socialism–communism and workers’ power. Therefore, the trust of business giants like Musk in such forces is a given…
Commentary of the daily newspaper “Rizospastis” , Organ of the CC of the KKE, published on 11/1/25.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
Jack London
The Human Drift
Two days before he died I read him a story by Jack London -- the book is lying now on the table in his room -- Love of Life. This is a powerful story...Ilyich (Lenin) was carried away by this story. Next day he asked me to read another London story. However, with Jack London the powerful is mixed with the exceedingly weak. The second story was altogether different -- one that preached [a] bourgeois moral: the captain of a ship promises the owner that he will sell the cargo of grain at a good price; he sacrifices his life in order to keep his word. Ilyich laughed and waved his hand.
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"Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives" (1956)
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"Women Workers, take-up your rifles!", soviet poster from ca. 1920
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The worker has at all costs to seek means of resisting the capitalist, in order to defend himself. And he finds such means in organisation. Helpless on his own, the worker becomes a force when organised with his comrades, and is enabled to fight the capitalist and resist his onslaught.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party
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Soviet Sniper lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko tries out a rifle belonging to a member of the Home Guard, London, 1942
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An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is no way out, nor can there be, save through the class struggle. In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, wage-labor, the oppressor class is always armed. Not only the modern standing army, but even the modern militia—and even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, Switzerland, for instance—represent the bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat. That is such an elementary truth that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it. Suffice it to point to the use of troops against strikers in all capitalist countries.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution: II
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There are two forces on Earth that can decide the destiny of mankind. One force is international capitalism, and should it be victorious it will display this force in countless atrocities. The other force is the international proletariat that is fighting for the socialist revolution through the dictatorship of the proletariat, which it calls workers’ democracy.
V. I. Lenin
Seventh All-Russia Congress Of Soviets (1919)
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