Classe

ftm-communist:

amodernmanifesto:

Last night I finished “Why Marx was Right” by Terry Eagleton.

Excellent book, brilliantly written, by someone who obviously knows his Marx back to front. His writing style is tenacious, and very funny.

His defence of Marxism is incredible, he doesn’t just beat off the opposing argument, he tears it to ribbons. By the end of his defence, you are left quite in awe by his ability.

It has given me a deeper knowledge of not only Marxist theory, but also the immense beauty of his ideas and his work, in all its brilliance and imperfections.

It has also allowed me to get my thoughts on the topic in order enough to be able to defend Marxism myself, it refutes very common critiques and accusations, often made without evidence or argument.

It is a necessary companion for any Marxist, and an important read for anyone else involved in liberation movements of any kind.’

EVERYONE READ IT!!!! IT IS GREAT!!!!

100% agreement - THIS IS THE BOOK FOR MARXISTS!

classe: reading right now ftw

thepeoplesrecord:

Some of my favorite Marxist quotes:

“I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.”
— Eugene V. Debs

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” – Karl Marx

“Without a guiding organization, the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam not enclosed in a piston-box. But nevertheless what moves things is not the piston or the box, but the steam.” – Leon Trotsky

“For Marxists, alienation doesn’t describe an emotional condition, but an economic and social reality of class society. Marxist alienation refers to the way in which work and the products of our work are outside our control and dominate us.” - Sherry Wolf

“A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The liberation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the liberation of Poland from German oppression.” - Friedrich Engels

“Most of us own neither the tools and machinery we work with nor the products that we produce—they belong to the capitalist that hired us. But everything we work on and in at some point comes from human labor. The irony is that everywhere we turn, we are confronted with the work of our own hands and brains, and yet these products of our labor appear as things outside of us, and outside of our control. Work and the products of work dominate us, rather than the other way around. Rather than being a place to fulfill our potential, the workplace is merely a place we are compelled to go in order to obtain money to buy the things we need.” -Paul D’Amato

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turkishbolshevik:

BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 11: Students study legal texts under a stained glass window featuring Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Russian October Revolution of 1917, in the law faculty library at Humboldt University.

iwanttheairwaves:

hall0weenjack:

ava-marx:

stickyembraces:

Marty McFly travels back in time to tell Philosophers about their legacy, Part #1: Marx

Oh my god I just laughed so hard my coffee came out of my nose

I guess he would be irritated by that.

Some eastern European people too… and oh, lots of place in Asia. Teh fuckery right?

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anticapitalist:

(that’s the coolest fucking picture ever)

Why Karl Marx was right

Roubini, whose predictions of the financial crash of 2008 earned him the nickname “Dr. Doom,” has referred his patients to a specialist in capitalist crisis: Dr. Karl Marx.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Roubini said:

Karl Marx had it right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot keep on shifting income from labor to capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That’s what has happened. We thought that markets worked. They’re not working. The individual can be rational. The firm, to survive and thrive, can push labor costs more and more down, but labor costs are someone else’s income and consumption. That’s why it’s a self-destructive process.

For several hours on August 12, theJournal website ran the video of the interview as a top story, under the headline, “Roubini: Marx was Right.”

Considering that the first edition of Marx’s three-volume masterwork Capital appeared in 1867, Roubini’s revelation isn’t exactly news to socialist opponents of capitalism. But given the intractable nature of the current crisis—a deep global recession, a weak recovery in the traditional core of the system in the U.S. and Europe, and now the possibility of a lurch into a second recession—mainstream, or bourgeois, economics has been exposed as ideologically driven and incapable of offering solutions.

Damn straight.

(via amodernmanifesto)

classe: always reblog. Vale anche per il terziario raga.

thesocialest:

Been trying to get the full set of these for awhile.

(via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)

In China, a Place Where Maoism Still Reigns

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Wang Hongbin, a 60-year-old man with deep creases lining his face, took a break from his duties as village chief this month to show me around Nanjiecun, in the wheat-heavy center of the country. It was unlike any place I’d seen in my years in China. No commercial advertisements cluttered the streets, just billboards screaming proletariat platitudes and memorializing Communist icons. “Long Live the Invincible Mao Zedong Thought,” read the inscription on an archway near the main government building. In the town’s three convenience stores, female clerks wore olive uniforms meant to evoke the People’s Liberation Army. And in the village square, surrounding the gigantic statue of Mao, stood four 30-foot portraits — one of Marx, one of Lenin, one of Engels and one of Stalin.

classe: fuck yeah. Anzi leggendolo fuck no. E’ un articolo del New York Times, per cui prendetelo con le pinze. Anyway interesting.