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accessible resources for distro
does anyone have a primer, a leftism 101 resource (article, zine, essay, pamphlet) that i can print out and distribute to the community? i’m looking for a beginner 101 intro, something using accessible language especially for ppl who don’t have english as their native tongue. something to hand out to ppl who have never even considered the us government isnt their friend. recs? pls help
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aligns with reality.
This doesn’t mean we let technocrats rule unchecked or elevate knowledge above empathy. It means we stop confusing charisma, confidence, and inherited status with competence. You can reject meritocracy and still build systems where more accurate ideas win. In fact, you have to. To even propose an idea is to do so.
Determinist technocratic rehabilitationist anti-exceptionalisnst universalism
DTRAU lol that’s such a descriptive name.
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On misogyny and the party
We know bias against women exists both overtly and covertly, as we know capitalism is patriarchal. I have experience this first hand, even from self-proclaimed communists and inside communist organisations. Women are not are not immune to these biases.
This bias means women are not treated with equal respect and trust that men are, and whatever is written or said by women is more likely to be ignored or discredited.
Revisionism is inevitable when this bias goes unchecked. But how bad is it, and what can we do about it?
If a thread addressing this issue already exists I’m happy to be redirected, I’ve been unable to find anything discussing this subject.
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Greek universities need your solidarity
During the pandemic and as the Greek universities have been closed for one year, the government decided to bring a relevant authoritarian bill.
Some of the key point are:
Creation of police forces (1.000 policemen will guard the universities, sth like a campus police, which won't be held accountable to the University authorities, but to the Ministry of Civil Protection).
Surveillance system in all over the campuses.
Entrance checks for anyone who enters the campus.
Criminal prosecutions and expulsions of students, for putting put up banners, posters or due to noise pollution. Most of the academic community is against the bill, as it violates both our rights and the freedom to disseminate ideas and knowledge.
We fight, but its not enough, we need the international solidarity of other universities! We ask you to spread the news and help us stand against this bill!
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Can anyone please help me debunk this??
Hello comrades, I'd really appreciate if anyone could provide academic sources to disprove the RW rhetoric that minimum wages for workers are apparently detrimental to capitalists and by extension to the whole economy as it allegedly causes inflation and unemployment??
Thanks in advance,
Have a nice day
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Marx's Reproduction Schemes as an Unbalanced Growth Model
http://copejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/andrew-kliman-marx_s-reproduction-schemes-as-an-unbalanced-growth-model.pdf
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Months after historic trial, Golden Dawn leaders evade justice
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/15/disgrace-high-ranking-golden-dawn-members-evade-justice
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Communism doesn’t work
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Do you think the amount of books you read (on Marxism and other ideological ideas) determine your knowledge when discussing/debating these topics?
It feels like books can be summarized really well and there is much more information to be found out outside a book. I think it’s good to have the knowledge of the books in your head but is it necessary?
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You cannot be Marxist and non-vegan.
Animals represent the lowest class in society; the sub-proletariat. It is easy to see how Marxist theories can apply to both humans and nonhuman animals.
Animals are enslaved to produce products for our capitalist society. They have no choice in the matter, and they can easily be slaughtered for deviating from the norms expected of them as an animal. They are alienated from their product, just like how the proletariat are alienated from the fruits of labour.
Furthermore, meat itself is inherently a symbol of wealth and the bourgeoise. For centuries, only the upper classes have been able to eat it, and even today it remains a symbol of wealth, Americanism and the Global North in general.
Being vegan is inherently apart of a more communist movement. Thoughts/discussion?
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#OnThisDay 30 years ago: The US began bombing Iraq starting the “Gulf War,” after months of sanctions For 42 days, US bombs destroyed Iraq's infrastructure, killing 200k people, followed by 12 more yrs of genocidal sanctions & 1.5 million dead Then came the 2003 war.
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What should I read?
Just got into Marxism. I need to find a book that is somewhat understandable to a newcomer. Does anyone have suggestions?
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Just a question of curiosity - how many Eastern Europeans are here?
Is there any way to check the statistics? I'm doing a test, a survey on how many people from Eastern Europe want communism back and why.
Live surveys are unavailable, so i'm doing whatever i can. So far the numbers aren't that great.
I'm from Lithuania, a post USSR state. About only 1/20, if not less people want it back
The catch is that they don't want communism - they miss the USSR for the "traditionalist aspect" of it. Deffo not the economic aspects.
Is there a way i can do a survey here? Of course there will be westerners posing as Eastern Europeans, which i find funny as most from Eastern Europe want to move west, but at least it's something.
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Where to buy theory books
So I’ve been buying pretty much all my books on theory on Amazon, which feels a little ironic. Would there be any source that I could buy books that is preferable to Amazon? I know there is a bunch for free online, but I am not a huge fan of reading on my phone/laptop. Any help would be appreciated.
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Are there any older Russian/ex-Soviet citizens who defiantly call things like cities & monuments by their old names (like calling "St. Petersburg" Leningrad, or "Volgograd" Stalingrad)?
Just a really random thought that came into my head lol. I would imagine after about 3 decades-worth of "de-Russification" and "de-communization" measures that doing this now would turn some heads, but I can't imagine being a person who lived in one of these cities for so long and then the next day being forced to call it by another watered-down name. Though I would like to think there are like some 80 or 90 year-old folks who remember how things really were, and refuse to give up the revolutionary legacies of these names ...
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Questions on calculating depreciation of machinery
This is a question for all the math savants in this sub. I am currently on chapter 9 of Capital Vol 1 and have temporarily stopped at section 1 to practice the application of the formulae I have learned so far. My question is regarding how one would calculate the yearly percentage of value depreciation of instruments of production (ie machinery). I ask this because I recognize that calculating the yearly depreciation rate can be connected to production output assuming the same machinery is used (ie increased intensity of the workday coupled with increased raw materials being processed) but if new machinery is used to increase output, how would you calculate the rate of depreciation? I guess the two aspects of my question are how does one find out depreciation rate of a machine? And does one calculate depreciation of value by use (ie losing x amount of value per use of the machine in a period of time) or does one measure purely by percentage over time?
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Determinist communism/universalism
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it would really mean to build a worldview, maybe even a society, on determinism. Not just as a thought experiment, but as something you take seriously all the way down. If all human actions are causally determined ,shaped by genetics, environment, experience, and everything in between, then that should radically change how we think about justice, morality, and responsibility.
That leads to this idea: Determinist Rehabilitationist Anti-exceptionalist Universalism, or DRAU. It’s not a brand or ideology. It’s just what naturally follows from applying determinism consistently. The determinist part is the foundation. If nothing happens without a cause, then behavior, whether good or bad, is never truly free-floating. No one could have done otherwise in the metaphysical sense. So moral blame, in the traditional sense, stops making sense. There’s no villain hiding inside anyone. There’s just a long chain of causes.
Once you internalize that, the only rational response to harm isn’t punishment or revenge. It’s intervention. That’s the rehabilitationist part. You don’t fix a malfunctioning machine by yelling at it or locking it up. You analyze the structure, the inputs, the conditions. People work the same way. If something harmful is happening, you fix the environment, the education system, the psychological inputs. You change the structure. You design things better. That’s what actually reduces harm.
Anti-exceptionalism means you can’t make excuses for some people and not for others. You can’t say one person deserves compassion because of their background and another deserves punishment because of theirs. No one is outside causality. No one gets a moral escape hatch or a special exemption. That includes criminals, parents, presidents, soldiers, entire nations. If you believe in determinism, you can’t pick and choose who gets to be causally explained and who gets condemned.
Universalism ties it all together. There’s only one reality. One species. One logic. That doesn’t mean erasing cultural difference or identity, but it does mean you apply the same principles to everyone. No one gets a unique moral framework because of where they were born or how they were raised. Different histories, yes, but shared structure. Shared accountability. Shared need to intervene at the level of causes instead of just reacting to outcomes.
DRAU isn’t a dream. It’s just consistency. It’s what you get if you stop pretending people are magic and start treating them as real. It’s not soft. It’s not sentimental. It’s rigorous and cold and compassionate all at once. No blame. No excuses. Just reality. Just cause and effect. Just better design.
This is also why I don’t throw out the idea of technocracy. Not in the sense of worshiping credentials or turning scientists into gods, but in the sense that policy and governance should be handled by people whose models actually track reality. I don’t believe in merit as a moral justification for power. I don’t think someone “deserves” control because they went to the right school or can recite the canon. But I do think expertise can be measured in outcomes. If someone can reliably anticipate the consequences of their proposals, if their understanding of systems leads to better predictions, fewer harms, and more robust results, then yes, they should have more influence over how we shape society. That’s not elitism. That’s basic epistemic hygiene.
It’s like the relationship between a parent and a child. A parent doesn’t have authority because they’re better. They just happen to know more about how the world works. They understand risk, time, nutrition, emotional regulation, what causes harm and what prevents it. Their role isn’t earned in a moral sense it’s justified by predictive capacity. That authority should shrink as the child gains their own understanding. It’s temporary, transparent, and entirely functional. That’s what technocracy should be. Not permanent control, but provisional influence based on how well someone’s reasoning
both sides, it is a reactionary and capitalist war and conflict. In order to escape the danger of this war spreading, the working class, the toilers, and the free people of Iran have no choice but to expand and intensify the struggle against the Islamic Republic, make a more intensive effort to organize their ranks, and form a nationwide leadership for a mass uprising and the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic regime. Some of the bourgeois opposition forces, who are excited, must not be allowed to lead the people to premature measures such as an uprising, which requires a high degree of organization and skill, and which they are not yet ready to carry out.
The Communist Party of Iran, while condemning this reactionary war and conflict, calls on all workers, toilers, and free people of Iran to expand and intensify the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic, and calls on the activists and leaders of the labor movement and other progressive social movements to expand their efforts to organize and form a coordinated and nationwide leadership. Only by accelerating and intensifying the efforts and struggle to prepare the prerequisites for the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic Republic can we save the people of Iran and the region from this criminal regime, thwart the efforts of the bourgeois and right-wing opposition forces to create an alternative from above the people, and place a bright horizon before the workers and oppressed people of the Middle East against the imperialist and reactionary regional order of the United States and Israel.
No to this reactionary war
Down with the regime of the Islamic Republic
Long live freedom, equality, and workers' rule
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Iran
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The Communist Secret of Love | Richard Gilman-Opalsky
https://illwilleditions.com/the-communist-secret-of-love/
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Canada knew about plan to assassinate Iranian Gen. Soleimani before it happened
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canada-knew-about-plan-to-assassinate-iranian-gen-soleimani-before-it-happened
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Good documentary/YT video on the Russian bolshevik revolution?
Most videos I find seem too short to get truly deep into the state of Russia at the time,the military side of the clashes between the Red and White armies,the aftermath etc.
Any suggestions appreciated!Thanks in advance comrades.
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dangers of being a communist
to preface this I am mentally ill.
After this year of fucking around reading theory and debating in my social circle, I've decided that all my leftist navel gazing is useless if I don't actually do something about it IRL. My question is if it's actually dangerous (in terms of govt suppression etc...) to publicly be a communist (I live in NSW australia.) Thanks in advance for any insight.
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What are your opinions on forming a 5th International? Can it be done, and how effective might it be this day in age?
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Anyone familiar with Struggle La Lucha/Socialist Unity Party?
I recently stumbled on a website and some discussions about this organization. It appears that they're descended from Workers World in some way, as they have multiple articles about or written by Sam Marcy on their site, so they're in that tradition in some way. But I can't find anything about them online outside of their site. Anyone know what their origins are?
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“Developing Vietnam to socialism is a historical mistake” - A false allegation
http://tapchiqptd.vn/en/events-and-comments/developing-vietnam-to-socialism-is-a-historical-mistake-a-false-allegation/16577.html
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Western governments smear China's COVID response, while failing to contain pandemic at home
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/western-governments-smear-chinas-covid-response
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Genuine question from a baby Leftist
If there is no money in a communist society, how will resources be distributed since any officials that help in that distribution can't be paid? They don't necessarily produce anything so I'm just a bit confused there.
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Could someone explain to me why ancoms believe it would be better to not form a party to lead the struggle against capitalism? Just a little confused, thanks for the help!
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thoughts on bernie sanders?
hi friends!
i’m unsure if this has been discussed before, but i am interested in genuine criticisms of bernie sanders politics. he’s obviously very appealing to liberals—even those who might be more left-leaning than they know—but as a social democrat he’s views are still incongruent to communism.
https://twitter.com/internethippo/status/1350100448808632326?s=21 this is the tweet that made me curious.
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This week in 1968, the US launched Operation Niagara in Vietnam, 66 straight days of carpet bombing, unleashing "the most concentrated application of aerial firepower in the history of warfare”, killing 15,000 Vietnamese.
https://twitter.com/Americas_Crimes/status/1350234037605040129
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