If you are and have been looking for socialist/communist rap, give Dead Prez a listen, surely you wont be dissappinted. Been listening for 15 years now.

"I take a slug for the cause like Huey P."

"Bring the power back to the street, where the people live."

"Organize the wealth into a socialist economy. A way of life based off the common needs and all my comrades are ready, we just spreading the seed."

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Basically the title. Or did he expect life would get worse and worse for the workers in the capitalist countries? I'm asking because I couldn't find the answer on google.

Edit: I mean the western capitalist countries.

If I'm correctly understanding Marx and Engels, ideology arises when labor is divided and societies change from primitive communal living to class-based societies. Individuals are now assigned specific roles, leading them to lose a well-rounded understanding of their society. As a result, people become more one-dimensional, which limits their perception of reality. This shift becomes especially pronounced with the establishment of fixed social classes, where class interests and struggles begin to shape how people think and understand the world.

Ideology then refers to this limited understanding of reality, which is complex and multifaceted. Among the different social classes, the proletariat has the unique ability to see beyond ideology because of its position and interests. As the last oppressed class, the proletariat aims to escape its exploitation and has a vested interest in dismantling the entire class system.

In striving for communism, essentially a society without classes, the proletariat can break free from its limitations. By achieving this liberation and destroying the bourgeois class society, it can eliminate the social foundations of ideology altogether. In a communist society, ideology will no longer hold power.

In this case then, should we say that communism is more a realization of a new social order, aimed at creating a classless society, rather than a fixed set of beliefs or ideas seen as a more or less coherent worldview of a specific class?

I've had this question for a while and am wondering if anyone has any insight or resources related to it — so I've heard of some Marxist parties lumping scientists, doctors, lawyers, and even other professionals like accountants into the petty bourgeoisie. It seems to be implied that engineers are part of this group. Does anyone have any resources discussing the class position of engineers, the relationship of engineers to the labor movement, and/or how the engineering profession was transformed in historical socialist nations? The view that makes the most sense to me as far as class position goes is that most engineers are part of the proletariat, but their predecessors in the early industrial revolution were part of the petty bourgeoisie who contracted out their services and gradually became proletarianized as time went on. Because of the origins of the profession, their salaries, and other factors, engineers still largely have a petty-bourgeois mentality (which is evident to me as a practicing engineer - haha). Interested to see what you all think about this question!

I recently attended a sociology of labour lecture and this term popped up. My professor claimed that this was a new class that emerged in modern times.

I was very disappointed to realize that this class was basically a giant fib from the introductory lecture so there is really nothing interesting in this class to discuss, but this peaked my interest.

I searched online and saw that it is used by sociodemocrats and even by a “communist” party in my country (I know little of their work and history to be certain.)

Is this a term that has Its usage in theory or is it just ideological sham? I’m ready to dismiss this but wanted to hear someone’s thoughts first.

The feudal mode of production followed upon the ancient mode of production because large empires collapsed and the people of Europe were forced back into subsistence farming by the new material conditions. In the Americas and Africa, the development of modes of production beyond primitive communism and ancient slave economy couldn't naturally occur because European colonizers forcibly established the capitalist mode of production there. So the question remains, were ancient empires always doomed to collapse under their own contradictions before developing the material base for capitalism or could there have been a case where the capitalist mode of production develops directly out of the ancient slave economy?

Hi, I'm Quebecers and here we have a big separatist movement (parti québécois, center-center left) and we don't hear a lot about international belief about this besides some french president and Bill Clinton. So what does you Communist/socialist/Trotskyist/Marxist think about it ?

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What the title says.

I should also add that I'm not really familiar with dada. I've just recently saw people talking about it on my social media feed, and I started to wonder what the marxists of the time said about it.

I enjoy reading magazines. I normally enjoy NY Times because of the high quality of the articles, however I do not like the general political leaning of the authors and how they serve US imperalism and capitalism. Are there any leftist magazines which I can subscribe so that I can increase my knowledge and understanding of the world?

Feels like there is a real lack of quality text on the subject. Any recs?

I remember I came across this video talking about this sanction that didn't allow North Koreans to travel to most places and that video got taken down and now I completely forgot the name of the sanction perchance does any of y'all know the name of it?

In one of the greatest propaganda gifts "israel" could have provided to the cause of armed Palestinian Resistance, they released drone footage showing Yahya Sinwar's final moments before his death. He died sitting upright in a chair, fighting till his very last breath. This was after him and other fighters repelled cowardly IOF ground troops who resorted to tank strikes to murder Sinwar.

This reminds me of people who talk about Chairman Gonzalo's speech from the cage , which was meant to humiliate him but only served as an immortal reminder of courageous resistance. Since I wasn't alive to see that, this is probably how that moment felt. Maybe "israel" thought this would be some sort of symbolic win for them, except it utterly failed. There is no better piece of media that can rally the Palestinian People and the armed struggle.

Long Live the Palestinian Resistance,

Long Live Palestine.

I saw the title Wittgenstein and marxism in Wittgenstein's Wikipedia article references. Is there a relation between Wittgenstein and communism?

I want The German Ideology in print to read, and I'm curious if there are any good English translations out there people are aware of

Unabridged if possible (but also interested in good abridged versions if not)

Haven't really seen many people I know talk about this but I do know it was thee most peaceful election in many years and I haven't really seen any anti-communists propaganda on it either. Just curious to see what's happened so far.