As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Karl Marx. Capital Volume One
Chapter Ten: The Working-Day

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The direct purpose of capitalist production is not the production of commodities, but of surplus-value or profit (in its developed form), the aim is not the product, but the surplus-product. Labour itself, from this standpoint, is only productive in so far as it creates profit or surplus-product for capital. If the worker does not create profit, his labour is unproductive. The mass of productive labour employed is only of interest to capital in so far as through it—or in proportion to it—the mass of surplus-labour grows. Only to this extent is what we called necessary labour-time, necessary. In so far as it does not have this result, it is superfluous and to be supressed.

Theories of Surplus-Value [Volume IV of Capital]
[Chapter XVIII] Ricardo’s Miscellanea. John Barton

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🔴 Estranged Labour

The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity – and this at the same rate at which it produces commodities in general.

This fact expresses merely that the object which labor produces – labor’s product – confronts it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer. The product of labor is labor which has been embodied in an object, which has become material: it is the objectification of labor. Labor’s realization is its objectification. Under these economic conditions this realization of labor appears as loss of realization for the workers[; objectification as loss of the object and bondage to it; appropriation as estrangement, as alienation.

So much does the labor’s realization appear as loss of realization that the worker loses realization to the point of starving to death. So much does objectification appear as loss of the object that the worker is robbed of the objects most necessary not only for his life but for his work. Indeed, labor itself becomes an object which he can obtain only with the greatest effort and with the most irregular interruptions. So much does the appropriation of the object appear as estrangement that the more objects the worker produces the less he can possess and the more he falls under the sway of his product, capital.

All these consequences are implied in the statement that the worker is related to the product of labor as to an alien object. For on this premise it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over and against himself, the poorer he himself – his inner world – becomes, the less belongs to him as his own. It is the same in religion. The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object. Hence, the greater this activity, the more the worker lacks objects. Whatever the product of his labor is, he is not. Therefore, the greater this product, the less is he himself. The alienation of the worker in his product means not only that his labor becomes an object, an external existence, but that it exists outside him, independently, as something alien to him, and that it becomes a power on its own confronting him. It means that the life which he has conferred on the object confronts him as something hostile and alien.

Karl Marx
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844


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...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

Nadezhda K. Krupskaya,
On Communist Ethics (1924)

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في « البيان الشيوعي » لخصت دروس التاريخ العامة التي تجعلنا نرى في الدولة هيئة للسيادة الطبقية وتفضي بنا إلى استنتاج لا مندوحة عنه وهو أن البروليتاريا لا تستطيع إسقاط البرجوازية إذا لم تستولي في البدء على السلطة السياسية، إذا لم تحصل على السيادة السياسية، إذا لم تحول الدولة إلى « بروليتاريا منظمة بوصفها طبقة سائدة »، وأن هذه الدولة البروليتارية تبدأ بالاضمحلال فور انتصارها، لأن الدولة لا لزوم لها ولا يمكن أن توجد في مجتمع خال من التناقضات الطبقية.

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الفصل الثاني: خبرة سنوات 1848-1851
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Anti-fascist stickers seen in Adelaide

Washington DC

Camden Town

Every product on a capitalist shelf is a monument to the suffering of the working class.

🔴 Elon Musk and the Dictatorship of the Capital
✍🏻 Nikos Mottas
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“Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood”.


The above words, written by Bertolt Brecht in 1935, serve as a timeless reminder of the inextricable bond between capitalism and fascism. Back in the 1930s, the monster of Fascism and Nazism, which led humanity to an unprecedented bloodshed, was born from the bowels of capitalist system itself (e.g several European and American monopoly giants, including General Motors, IBM, Ford Company, IT&T, Standard Oil, etc, are known for providing financial support to Nazi Germany before and even during the Second World War).

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The monster certainly didn't emerge from outside of the capitalist world nor threatened its existence. On the contrary, Fascism and Nazism have been expressions of the dictatorship of the Capital, being utilized as a spearhead against the rise of the organized labour movement and the “communist threat”. Today, 80 years after the Peoples Great Antifascist Victory in the Second World War, our era is once again marked by the rise of far-right and fascist political forces: From the Baltic countries to the United States and from Germany to Ukraine, the serpent's egg is growing again, taking various forms.

The return of Trump in the U.S Presidency, the strengthening of fascist parties in Europe (“Alternative for Germany”, “National Rally” in France, “Freedom Party” in Austria, British fascists, etc) and the broader rise of far-right, racist and ultra-nationalist groups is the outcome of internal changes within the global capitalist system. As the world is heading towards an imperialist war, new political forces come to the fore of bourgeois politics in order to manage and safeguard the interests of monopoly capital.

The direct involvement of Elon Musk – the richest man in the world - in U.S politics and his tendency to meddle in the internal affairs of foreign countries is indicative of a fierce competition that is taking place within the capitalist system. Behind the fight for the so-called “woke agenda” lies a much deeper confrontation between multiple sectors of monopoly capital for new spheres of influence, division of markets, raw materials, commodity transport networks, energy sources and routes.

The case of arch-capitalist Elon Musk, a close ally of Trump, owner of Tesla, Space X and social media platform X, is the epitome of what we call “the dictatorship of the Capital”. Taking advantage of his powerful social media influence, he intervenes in the internal affairs of other countries by openly endorsing far-right and ultra-nationalist forces, while at the same time he spreads his anti-communist venom at every instance. His straight-arm, Nazi-like gesture at Trump's inauguration caused justifiable disturbance across the world thus strengthening the voices that call him a promoter of the global fascist right.

Musk's audacious endorsement and promotion of certain bourgeois political forces throughout the globe underscores the fundamental point: This is what capitalists do all the time! From media tycoon William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s to the infamous George Soros in recent decades, arch-capitalists tend to support those political forces that serve their broader agendas and interests. Under the pretexts of “democracy” and “human rights”, the big Capital has committed heinous crimes against whole nations (e.g. Yugoslavia, Libya, Ukraine, etc).

Let's be clear: Elon Musk is only the tip of the capitalist iceberg. His promotion of fascist, ultra-nationalist or racist groups isn't a “conspiracy” against modern democratic values, but rather a manifestation of what Brecht called “most nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive form of capitalism”. The alternative to this profound hideousness won't be found among the choices that the capitalist system offers.

You can't eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. The only true alternative to capitalist barbarity of Musk, Soros and other similar parasites, is the struggle for a social system without exploitation of man by man, without imperialist wars and multi-billionaires. This is the struggle for Socialism-Communism.

Nikos Mottas

З юності Карл Маркс виявляв неабияку щедрість та любов до людей. Коли Маркс був студентом, його батько писав йому: «Ти витратив за рік 700 талерів, а навіть найбагатші студенти витрачають 500 талерів». Але молодий Карл Маркс значну частину коштів роздавав нужденним товаришам.
Будь як наш ватажок Карл Маркс!

Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl

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