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  1. cpmk.org/87-recent-news/444-th

    Banger of a read from Kenya.

    >Communists should indeed reject sectarianism.
    >‎
    >Sectarianism isolates revolutionaries from the masses.
    >‎
    >It substitutes slogans for investigation.
    >‎
    >It mistakes organisational isolation for ideological purity.
    >‎
    >But there exists another danger.
    >‎
    >Liquidationism.
    >‎
    >Liquidationism dissolves the communist party into the general Left.
    >‎
    >It blurs ideological distinctions.
    >‎
    >It dismisses organisational discipline.
    >‎
    >It celebrates diversity while abandoning revolutionary coherence.
    >‎
    >If sectarianism builds walls where bridges are necessary, liquidationism removes the foundations upon which the bridge itself must stand.
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    >Marxism Leninism rejects both.

    ---Booker Ngesa Omole

    #politics
    #kenya
    #socialism
    #communism
    #marxism
    #MarxismLeninism
    #leninism
    #vanguardism
    #sectarianism
    #liquidationism
    #BookerNgesaOmole
    #BookerOmole
    #capitalism
    #neocolonialism
    #neoimperialism
    #colonialism
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    #theory
    #practice
    #praxis
    #HistoricalMaterialism
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  2. The Radical Buddhist Project is a dual-purpose scholarly resource: a comprehensive text archive and a contextual encyclopedia. It is dedicated to recovering, preserving, and analyzing the historical intersections of Buddhist doctrine with left-wing political philosophies, such as socialism and anarchism, and Buddhist involvement in anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and radical social justice movements
    #buddhism #buddhist #marxism #socialism #anarchism #engagedbuddhism
    radicalbuddhism.net/wiki/Main_

  3. If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?

    For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric.

    polymathchristian.wordpress.co

  4. The Lover of Che and Marx

    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
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  6. "In 2022, when Mike Davis died at age seventy-six, obituary writers rightly praised his radicalism, his anti-imperialism, his warnings of environmental catastrophe, and the sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism with which he observed capitalism’s dystopian transformation of Los Angeles and other cities. Many called him “the prophet of doom.”

    His energy was enormous. He had twenty books to his name, and some, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums, have become classics with an ever-widening influence. But his rough, tough, working-class persona, forged in the gritty, downscale reaches of the Southern California suburban frontier, has often obscured his relationship to the ideas and texts that he encountered, mastered, revised, and deployed in a forty-year outpouring of work whose vitality and breath continues to astound readers. So how did Mike Davis, the San Diego County redneck, become Mike Davis, the transatlantic intellectual, a man whose first book and his last were histories of the working class?"

    jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis

    #Marxism #MikeDavis #Capitalism #History #Urbanism

  7. The marquee was a nice touch. Also, intro post.

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  8. "[V]alue is the product of wage labour in a capitalist system, and all the things that this entails. Value is not an ontologically distinct, ‘abstract’ substance, existing in some other plane of reality, birthed into that plane by the demonic machinations of capital. Value – like gravity – is a conceptual representation of a complex process that is difficult for all of us to comprehend.

    To repeat: value is not an object, but a process. Many have said this, but the implication I emphasise here is this: if value is not an object, but a process (or set of processes) it cannot be a ‘real abstraction’, insofar as this term is commonly understood to refer to something immaterial. Everything that creates value happens here, in this world, and is explainable within it, without need for reference to a wicked Narnia where a white queen of value coordinates our realm through her interdimensional spyglass."

    radicalphilosophy.com/article/

    #Marxism #CriticalTheory #RealAbstraction #Ontology #WertKritik

  9. ‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’

    Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:

    berlinergazette.de/the-end-of-

    #politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism

  10. 🧵 1/5
    A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.

    Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.

    Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.

    I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.

    Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.

    Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.

    These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.

    Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....

    versobooks.com/products/1035-m

    #TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory

  11. “Fake Lefties” vs. the "Berniessance" | Reacting to Secular Talk/Vanguard (from #S4A Livestream 127)

    Watching & critiquing pro-Berniepalooza comments in videos by Secular Talk/Kyle Kulinski and The Vanguard YouTube channels + livestream chat & discussion

    #socialism #marxism

    youtu.be/1Gi9h4VQXYE

  12. Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.

    theanarchistlibrary.org/librar

    #AsianMastodon #ChineseHistory #ChineseAnarchists #ChineseRevolution #AnarchistLibrary #AsianAnarchism #essay #RecommendedReading #educational #AntiFascist #AsianAnarchyHistory

  13. For years on this channel, we've been talking about the need for the US left to detach from the Democratic Party and for the existing, mostly quite small left parties to join together in a #LeftCoalition or #LeftCongress to intensify the class struggle and increase workers' economic and political power. This week in France, the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) or New Popular Front, which has done just that, took the lead in the national elections and, together with the "center" ("moderate" right) forces behind Macron, pushed the extreme-right Marine Le Pen and her fascist National Rally party into third place at a time when they had been expected to win control of the government.

    The NFP includes parties from the center-left to the far-left such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Unbowed (La France Insoumise or LFI), Mitterand's and Hollande's Socialist Party (PS), the French Green Party (LE-EELV), and the French Communist Party (PCF), among others. While all of these deserve significant criticism and most likely will not be able to guide the French masses out of capitalism in their present form, they are far preferable in the short term to Macron's neoliberal austerity ghouls or the flat-out neo-Nazis of the National Rally. The French masses now must take every opportunity to strengthen the fight for better conditions, increased class consciousness, and an independent, internationalist, revolutionary party of the proletariat as they struggle to build a movement capable of ending capitalism in France.

    From the NFP's website:

    "You asked us; we did it: the new Popular Front was born to govern and change everything.

    "We have united, beyond political parties, around a program of rupture, solid, coherent and fair, quantified by economists and experts:

    "1) To defend purchasing power and wages;

    "2) For public services everywhere, from overseas to the countryside via working-class neighborhoods;

    "3) For all women who demand equality and an end to violence;

    "4) To defend the climate and living things;

    "5) For all those who experience racism, anti-Semitism or Islamophobia;

    "6) To defend the Republic against the far right.

    "We are the camp of social, ecological, popular victories and peace. Progress and bright tomorrows. Our history is great. We must now write the future of our country."

    source: france24.com/en/france/2024070
    source: nouveaufrontpopulaire.fr/

    #news #politics #france #nfp #newpopularfront #socialism #communism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist #revolution2030 #rev2030 #s4a #socialismforall #marxismleninism #election #elections #frenchelections #frenchelection #macron #tatertube

  14. In finance, an inverted yield curve is when interest rates on short-term debt instruments rise above the interest rates of longer-term debt instruments of similar creditworthiness. In other words, this is an unusual situation in which, all else being equal, shorter-term investments return more money than longer-term investments.

    Historically, inverted yield curves on US treasuries have been reliable indicators of impending recessions or economic downturns, and more prolonged inversions generally correlate with more severe crashes, as this video by the Game of Trades investment channel demonstrates: youtube.com/watch?v=ELF_EivMCM

    (The last 30 seconds of this video are just ads for the channel's trading advice services.)

    Our current situation in 2024 is that the yield curve has been inverted for 540 days, which is comparable to the durations of the inversions preceding the 1974 crash and the 2008 global financial meltdown (low 500s each) and second only to the 1929 market crash that kicked off the Great Depression (700).

    The stock market is currently still going up, but keep in mind that the stock market went up for a long time after the 2008-era inversion as well: a record 657 days. If the market were to keep rallying for that length of time today, then the crash would begin this August.

    2008 showed us that the average person will be angry and more ready to question capitalism itself when events like this happen. As Marxists, we must prepare to do widespread agitation, education, and organizing in its wake, spreading real knowledge about how to understand, resist, and fight back against capital.

    #yieldcurve #ustreasury #federalreserve #invertedyieldcurve #recession #crash #financialcrash #financialmarket #economy #economics #news #politics #gfc #globalfinancialcrisis #2008 #greatdepression #depression #yieldinversion #capitalism #socialism #communism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist #revolution #rev2030 #revolution2030 #tatertube #s4a #socialismforall