Examples of common characteristics among right ideologies:

Fascism: anti-communism;

Nazism: anti-communism;

Liberalism: anti-communism...

Today in Labor History September 18, 1931: The Korean People's Association in Manchuria was dissolved by the Japanese, after they invaded and established a dictatorship over the anarchist autonomous zone. Two million Korean migrants lived in the autonomous zone, after having fled Korea in the wake of the Donghak Peasant Revolution of 1894 and subsequent Japanese invasion, in which hundreds of thousands died. The anarchist autonomous zone they created in Manchuria, in 1929, was built upon the principles of stateless communism and mutual aid to support the numerous refugees with food, shelter and self-defense. They were repeatedly attacked by both Japanese imperialists and Korean communists.

The take that we need a 'socialist phase' before we can have communism is common among the far left and is a Leninist inheritance.

It is revisionist.

For my commie followers, friends and comrades, let me share that Marx originally spoke about the 'lower' and 'higher' stages of communism. But it was *communism* from the get go, a moneyless economy where wage labour was abolished. With the lower phase "still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges".

Marx spoke about socialism and communism as synonyms.

Marx did talk (in polemics) about a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', as a *political* hegemony of the working classes. Since it would be the (enforced) rule of the majority, it would obviously be vastly more democratic than capitalism ever could be.

What Marx did *not* talk about is a historical period where people had to be removed from their habits of capitalism. What Marx did not talk about was a party dictatorship that ruled *in name of* the working classes.

The point here is not to put an aura of infallibility to Marx's words, but the reverse: to point out the *revisionism* of the later (failed) socialist world revolution and, under the banner of that revolution, became its opposite.

34 years after the fall of the USSR and, arguably, a century after the failure of the revolution, it is time we parted ways with this 'innovation' of bolshevism and took up again the banner of communism in Marx's original sense: the project for the universal liberation of humanity.

We can already build prototypes of communism today, in the womb of the old society. Worker self-organisation and explicitly working towards a moneyless economy, where the state plays no role, is the key to making progress.

Would we still need to face capitalist and imperialist reaction? Yes. Again, Marx was correct that an armed working class is needed to defend ourselves against another Pinochet. But we don't need a state bureaucracy guiding a planned economy, we don't need a party ruling in our name, and we don't need to be re-educated to embrace socialist values.

“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” — Karl Marx

I'm not usually one for spiritual ideas, but Hofmann makes a compelling point. Capitalism has deeply disconnected us, from nature and from one another.

I still believe that protests, organizing, and direct action are what truly drive change. Yet, shifting our perspective is just as crucial.

Russia is now #2 in the running for the country least likely to have Fully Automated Luxury #communism, right behind North Korea.

Laos has moved into the #3 slot.

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"
- Karl Marx

#marx #marxism #karlmarx #communism #socialism

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

- Karl Marx

The fact someone wants to rule over me makes me laugh, like bro, you think you can outbid my freedom? Nice try, but the only thing ruling me is dialectical materialism and the workers managing shit themselves. So fuck your bourgeois fantasies, your weak wallet, and your sad little hierarchy. Sorry, not sorry!

If you believe in me like I believe in you, they will remember us.

The idea of anyone placing another person above themselves is hilarious to me!

Trump’s pursuit of authoritarian power is demolishing the constitutional system. If the laws that govern American society are meaningless - so too are the laws that govern modern American corporations.

#eattherich #maga #capitalism #communism

https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/how-trump-could-kill-capitalism?r=2brusa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

This was basically me between the ages of 16 and now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySW5tHeKH40

"it's far from clear that a mass of #Britons are calling out for #food coop committees & #socialist ping pong"

Living in an area where #communities are struggling with the #costofliving & a lack of #affordable family activities I can't stress how wrong this is.

Today in Labor History September 14, 1960: Mobutu led a coup in Congo, against president Patrice Lumumba, just months after winning independence from Belgium. Lumumba was later executed. During years of brutal colonial rule, the Belgians slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half Congo’s entire population. However, millions more died under the Mobutu dictatorship, which lasted from 1971 until 1997.

President Eisenhower authorized the assassination of Lumumba because of his ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.

One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agency’s secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.