LEAVING out of account the weak echoes of pre-Revolutionary ideologic systems, the only theory which has opposed Marxism in Soviet Russia these years is the Formalist theory of Art. The paradox consists in the fact that Russian Formalism connected itself closely with Russian Futurism, and that while the latter was capitulating politically before Communism, Formalism opposed Marxism with all its might theoretically.
Literature and Revolution: The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism
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Stalin on: The October Revolution, Socialism and Industry, Cold War
The Khazar myth and Marxism? 🤦🏼♀️
Someone questioned me about the Khazar myth in relation to Marxist ideology. I immediately thought of the Jewish Bolshevism and Cultural Marxism myths. I have never heard of this Khazar myth before, but it sounds like an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. So far, I have seen claims that the Communist Party of China is working with Jewish Marxist academics to incite a Communist revolution in the United States. Hahaha! I want to find these Jewish Marxist academics! Bring on the Communist Revolution! I wish people would pay more attention to the true enemies—the oligarchs behind the politicians—rather than these ridiculous conspiracy theories. 🤦🏼♀️
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Donald Trump: Bonapartist?
DOGE Sets Its Sights on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
The Republican record on Social Security: Getting worse all the time
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The false narrative that Trump has ended regime change ops, & the covert nature of the empire’s next actions
Anyone who’s simply saying Donald Trump has dismantled USAID, without including the other parts of this story, is putting forth a narrative of false hope. The potential for ending U.S. imperialism’s global destabilization efforts cannot be found within any top-down policy change; it can only be found within the effort to overthrow our capitalist state. The Trump White House hasn’t been pressured into dismantling the regime change network, and if Trump were to do this, the imperialist deep state would assassinate him. The thing he’s actually done is transfer resources from the State Department and its non-governmental organizations, to the covert operations programs of the CIA. Which means the destabilization efforts are now going to be much better hidden, and those who oppose them will need to be more diligent in detecting and exposing them.
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Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution
or:
Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (PDF)
I’m going to take some melatonin for my insomnia and hopefully get some sleep. When I wake up, I’ll start reading.
A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work” (2020)
The question of women’s liberation is central to any revolutionary project, and thus so is the question of “sex work.” Esperanza Fonseca’s contribution, although coming from a Maoist political orientation with which we often have differences, [1] makes the stakes of this debate crystal clear, as she combines personal experience, public policy research, and historical materialism to argue that Marxists cannot uphold what she calls “sex-trade-expansionary feminism.”
Content Warning: Descriptions of rape.
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The right of the subordinated classes of men to buy access to women’s bodies has been used historically to break class solidarity in order to maintain the dominant social relations of the time. This was true in feudal Europe and remains true today: when proletarian and petit bourgeois men get to buy women too, they develop a false consciousness and build solidarity with bourgeois men of their own gender rather than aligning with women of their own class. And because the overthrow of capitalism is only possible by the overthrowing of the bourgeoisie, prostitution serves two great purposes: (1) allows bourgeois men access to a reserve army of women for their pleasure, and (2) prevent class consciousness and thus helps stop the proletariat from organizing as a class.
A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work” (2020)
The socialist attitude to the tragedy of Luigi Mangione
The case of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year old who allegedly assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the streets of Manhattan, has become a major public issue in the United States. While many details remain to be explained, the response from different layers of society raises fundamental class questions.
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