Engels on Islam “All these movements are clothed in religion but have their source in economics… and yet, even when they are victorious, they allow the old economic conditions to persist untouched. So the old situation remains unchanged and the collision recurs periodically”

I didn’t get into organizing workers into revolutionary structures, which is important. But the Petrograd Soviet became organized relatively quickly in the heat of a revolutionary situation. When the movement is at a modest pitch you can attempt this until you’re blue in the face

In much simpler terms, it's an idea as ridiculous as saying that the "primary contradiction" is the invention of paper money by the Tang dynasty in the 7th century.

The disconnect is that he seems to have credibility/cachet in nominally Marxist circles (esp Monthly Review school), but he is nowhere close to a Marxist. x.com/Absurd_Ruka/st…

the problem isn't ideology in that sense. the problem is when they decided we are betrayers and part of the enemy class that must be overcome/liquidated. Then, yes, you do get the "enemy of my enemy" crossover. But it's important to grasp what's happening at it's root.

I'm aware my opinion is too sharply critical to be constructive but it isn't out of bounds to frame the glaring issue so that you are compelled to confront it (or ignore it if you choose). Ask me for my personal thoughts and then you will be justified in chiding my tone lol

Still waiting for my first check too but at least you have the super power of automatically repelling Black Bloc

NOTHING is innately mathematic, it’s a social construct and a useful one at that. After the revolution, some of us will pick up the calculator, pencil, and paper and go work for the Gosplan.

"The veil is not removed from the countenance of the social life-process, i.e. the process of material production, until it becomes production by freely associated men, and stands under their conscious and planned control." - Karl Marx Source: Capital vol 1

there is nothing "non-partisan." marxism is a strictly partisan theory because it is proletarian politics. all of the "non-partisan" tend to be of bourgeois politics, thereby they too are partisan

You really have to tiptoe around the glaring question of the USSR to theorize the "civilizational state" (or "Xivilization"). If the USSR was one that kind of undermines the claim of millenia length peristence. If it was not one then how are you not just peddling Putin theory?

You know the inter-ultra fight is on when someone wishes Trotsky a happy birthday x.com/comrade__e/sta…

I assumed after he was passed over for VP, Tim Scott would disinvite the bride from the wedding

Good ol' politics as personal melodrama

Some comrades sometimes tend to forget that

I think this book helps clear up the discussion about March on the DNC 2024. Here’s a long thread about it. 1/19

There are two takeaways from this: 1. Workers knew they had power. They understood that they may not own the means of production, but they most certainly had control of the economy. 2. Corporations are run by ignominious poltroons who thoroughly understand 1, above.