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

selucha:

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Today In Latin American History

Prominent Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui died in Lima at age 35 on April 16, 1930.

You can purchase an English-language anthology of his works here.

classe: goddamn, mariátegui death, ratzinger birth. Good choice for my returns of the day.

marxistromanticist:

Thousands of people from across the world will be heading to Marxism 2012. Join us to debate, discuss and to organise the resistance. You can get more details about the event from the website: http:// www.marxismfestival.org.uk/

Confirmed speakers so far:

Hossam el-Hamalawy,
Tariq Ali,
Gary Younge,
Ghada Karmi,
Costas Lapavitsas,
Owen Jones,
Danny Dorling,
Nina Power,
Alex Callinicos,
Alberto Toscano,
Michael Rosen,
Haifa Zangana,
Mark Serwotka,
Tony Benn,
Kevin Courtney
+ hundreds more tbc

More top speakers confirmed…

Latest speakers to confirm for Marxism include:

Tommy McKearney former IRA hunger striker

Ghassan Makarem Lebanese revolutionary socialist and LGBT activist

Ronnie Kasrils former leader of ANC’s armed wing

Rafeef Ziadah Palestine campaigner and performance poet

Zita Holbourne PCS NEC and Co-founder/National Co-Chair of BARAC

Steven Rose author Genes, Cells & Brains

Book before the end of March to get £5 off your ticket! http:// www.marxismfestival.org.uk/ index.php?option=com_conten t&view=article&id=65&Itemi d=78

classe: Yeah, I’ll see you there comrade.

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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thesocialest:

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

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

August 21, 2011: 40th anniversary of the assassination of comrade George Jackson, Soledad Brother, Black Panther prison leader, and revolutionary Marxist theoretician.

England rioters: young, poor and unemployed

dontfeartahrir:

from truthdig:

The Guardian put together a database of court cases of those detained during and after the unrest that swept London in early August after Metropolitan Police shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in the city’s Tottenham neighborhood.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the riots “were not about poverty,” but analysis showed that 41 percent of rioting suspects within the judicial system live in areas that rank in the top 10 percent of the most economically dispossessed places in the country, with 66 percent of the neighborhoods in which the accused live having become poorer between 2007 and 2010. Heavy youth unemployment, child poverty and lack of educational opportunity were found in almost all of the areas where rioting was the worst. More then 90 percent of the accused are male.

What anarchists should know about the "dictatorship of the proletariat"...

determinatenegation:

“The dictatorship of the proletariat [is] an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors,the exploiters, the capitalists. We must suppress them in order to free humanity from wage slavery, their resistance must be crushed by force; it is clear that there is no freedom and no democracy where there is suppression and where there is violence.” - Lenin State and Revolution

“Only communism makes the state absolutely unnecessary, for there is nobodyto be suppressed - “nobody” in the sense of a class, of a systematic struggle against a definite section of the population. We are not utopians, and do not in the least deny the possibility and inevitability of excesses on the part ofindividual persons, or the need to stop such excesses. In the first place, however, no special machine, no special apparatus of suppression, is needed for this; this will be done by the armed people themselves, as simply and as readily as any crowd of civilized people, even in modern society, interferes to put a stop to a struggle or prevent a woman from being assaulted.” - LeninState and Revolution

“So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.”
-Lenin State and Revolution

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