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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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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In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx
1859
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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And so in our case now. We are far from having completed even the transitional period from capitalism to socialism. We have never cherished the hope that we could finish it without the aid of the international proletariat. We never had any illusions on that score, and we know how difficult is the road that leads from capitalism to socialism. But it is our duty to say that our Soviet Republic is a socialist republic because we have taken this road, and our words will riot be empty words.

V. I. Lenin
Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies
January 10-18 (23-31), 1918

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Anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina was executed on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.

Amid a fierce battle, Radić used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.

She fought alongside her sister Dara in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.

Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was persistent; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.

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On this day, 8 February 1887, the Dawes Act was signed into United States law by President Grover Cleveland. It authorised the President to subdivide Native American communal land into allotments for Native American individuals, with some also sold at discounted rates to white settlers.
By converting traditional systems of land tenure into a government-imposed system of private property, the act forced Native Americans to adopt a capitalist and proprietary relationship with land.
Furthermore, the act allowed tribes to sell the lands that remained after allotment to the federal government. Before the allotments could be dispensed as private property, the government had to determine eligibility, which propelled an "official search for a federal definition of Indian-ness." Individual Native Americans had to register with the Office of Indian Affairs, and have their name put on "Dawes Rolls" to be eligible to receive land. Many Black Native people, especially people who had been enslaved by Native American tribes like the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw, had difficulties or were unable to register on the rolls.
In a little over 60 years after the signing of the act, Native Americans lost control of about 100 million acres of land.

Working Class History

Originally published: 1920
Author: Vladimir Lenin

Lenin's Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder is not just a critique but a weapon—a ruthless dissection of this sterile ultra-leftism, a reaffirmation of Marxist strategy against doctrinaire impotence. It is a manual for those who seek real revolution, not fantasy.

If you wish to understand why Marxism is a science and not a religion, why Leninism is the art of the possible and not an abstract dogma, and why real revolutionaries do not wait for perfect conditions but create them—then this book is indispensable.

For today, in Black History Month, watch former Black Panther, revolutionary, and scholar Kathleen Cleaver respond to the question of non-violence, arguing that “non-violence is non-functional.” Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1967. She became the first woman to be included in the BPP’s Central Committee, the highest decision-making body within the organization. She wrote many of the organization’s speeches, delivering them nationwide and serving as a media spokesperson.

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