We shall reply to this by quoting two lines from a Russian fable, ‘Eagles may at times fly lower than hens but hens can never rise to the height of eagles'. [Rosa ] in spite of her mistakes [...] was and remains for us an eagle. And not only will Communists all over the world cherish her memory, but her biography and her complete works will serve as useful manuals for training many generations of communists all over the world. ‘Since August 4, 1914, German social-democracy has become a stinking corpse' ‑ this statement will make Rosa Luxemburg's name famous in the history of the international working class movement. And, of course, in the backyard of the working class movement, among the dung heaps, hens like Paul Levi, Scheidemann, Kautsky and all their fraternity will cackle over the mistakes committed by the great Communist".
V. I. Lenin
(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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On this day in 1962, the US imposed a total blockade on Cuba, designed to sabotage the country’s socialist revolution. The blockade has caused an estimated $1 trillion in damage and has been condemned by the majority of the world for 30 consecutive years. Despite the blockade’s devastating humanitarian effects, the Cuban revolution continues and the country boasts a higher average life expectancy, literacy rate, and lower infant mortality rate than the US.
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Today marks 60 years since the US began its air war on the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), commonly known as North Vietnam.
This move effectively escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War—a bloody war that the US would continue to wage for another decade.
Undeterred by the US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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This move effectively escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War—a bloody war that the US would continue to wage for another decade.
Undeterred by the US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
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The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
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What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, in the fact that labor is external to the worker, that is, that it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel well but unhappy, does not freely develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore, feels himself only outside his work, and feels beside himself in his work. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His work therefore is not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that labor is shunned like the plague as soon as there is no physical or other compulsion...
Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Estranged Labour
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Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Estranged Labour
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