I think the opportunism and popular frontism of the soviet aligned communist parties destroyed the left more than the intellectual reaction to them

Klassische Polit-Matrix der BRD vs. neue Polit-Matrix von Deutschland. Beitrag von Diederichsen News zum Symposium "Der Grosse Kanton: Rise & Fall of the BRD" thediasporist.de/de/im-garten-f…

one of the main conclusions you have to reach from studying the history of the communist movement is that building communism is actually very difficult

One of the problems with tailing liberals

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The Christmas Truce from World War 1 is one of my favourite Christmas stories. A beautiful example of solidarity. Merry Christmas to all!

The lack of a programmatic framing or peoples understanding of political difference within the international socialist & communist movements really does lead to people understanding the whole lineage of our movement mainly through moralism and labels

“As a result, therefore, man (the worker) only feels himself freely active in his animal functions – eating, drinking, procreating, or at most in his dwelling and in dressing-up, etc.; and in his human functions he no longer feels himself to be anything but an animal.”

Während die USA voll auf fossile Energie setzen, ist China dabei, zum ersten Elektrostaat der Welt zu werden. Die Linke sollte sich ein Beispiel daran nehmen und selbst wieder ein Entwicklungsmodell formulieren, das den Kapitalismus übertreffen will. jacobin.de/artikel/elektr…

All of this comes down to a lack of programmatic conversation in this country, up to and including this critique where a program should only be made up of immediately achievable goals (ignoring that this country's political system makes many 'normal' goals unfeasible)

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"Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of the Soviet army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you." On this day in 1945, soldiers of the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz. In the passage below, two Russian soldiers describe the heart-wrenching moment in

The lesson is that we need to struggle for control of the technical infrastructure of the internet and data centers now, because the power that capitalists hold through their ownership of all this data and the production of it, is beyond anything any ruling class had in history.

I'm not a Maoist but I love the slogan "It is right to rebel". I think of it as a shortened formulation of what Marx called "the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, forsaken, despicable being"

Lenin argued that the “steady and systematic drive to win a majority of the working class” was so vital that those who disagreed should be expelled from the Comintern

The development of the system of Socialist sects and that of the real workers' movement always stand in inverse ratio to each other.