I live in China, and I am now very worried about the future social order in China, whether our country still really belongs to the workers and peasants, and when the rights and interests of the working people are not protected or even suppressed, I am very sad. Whether Trotsky's 'theory of permanent revolution' was a good medicine, I scoffed at Mao's Cultural Revolution, but now I think that perhaps Mao, like Trotsky, anticipated the corrosive effect of capitalism on the socialist countries, but there were big problems in its implementation.

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I apologize if this has been covered before, but what do Comrades familiar with them think of the Russian group Lenin Crew/ Their articles translate quite accurately with google translate, but their name is actually in English.

Hello Comrades.

I'm struggling with finding objective books about the Soviet Union, especially about its achievements. Most of what I read is, unsurprisingly, from western historians holding an obvious bias towards socialism and, by extension, the USSR.

I need books that help me show the achievements of the union!

I remember there was (maybe it still is) a huge collection of books in archive.org, but I forgot the name, I don't have the adress and I can't find it!

Anyways, any book recommendation focused on this are appreciated!

Good books I've already read include 'Is the Red Flag Flying?' and 'Human Rights in the USSR' both by Albert Szymanski.

In particular I’m interested in understanding the nature of the civil war, what made way for Franco and how it managed to persist.

Relatively less discussed in this part of the world. I have read some novels on Spain during that time but I don’t have any sense of where to look for an analysis. Would really appreciate if you can point me in that direction.

Tangential/ general reading that relate to counter-revolution are welcome.

What class are salaried/wage-earning doctors, engineers, software engineers, lawyers, teachers and professors in semi-colonialised semi-feudal countries?

1. Do these professions even have anything to do with eachother, or is it a case by case scenario?
2. If they are proletarians, is there a significant distinction between them and industrial workers? If they are petite-bourgeois, why, they don't own private property(?), and are they primary part of the left wing, right wing or center of the petite bourgeoisie? Can the term labor aristocracy be applied to the global south?

2'. What actually is the intelligentsia? 3. Are these professions unitary, or can there be distinctions within them? 4. What were they considered historicaly by marxist theoreticians (marx, engels, lenin, stalin, mao etc.) and did they change their class nature (I know for example that doctors in the past owned their practice, but today it's mostly no longer the case) ? 5. What should be our political attitude towards them (as communists in preparation or in the process of a new democratic revolution) ?

https://x.com/ibrahimhamidi/status/1884707398968877066

Those who called this, myself included, do not take any pleasure in reporting this news. I will attempt to update this with the response by the party if one is released.

E: update in comments

Watching the video critically i notice many of his points about it being sectarian and cultish just seem wrong, just based off what he says, but there are other claims I´d like to see answered, like the claim that a party member was purged from the party for sleeping with gonzalos lover

I´d also like a deep clarification on what was lucanamarca what were exactly its execesses etc

I also alredy dont think his argument against the pcps attack on the rondas were valid if they were reactionary and were formally incorporated into the army, even if they are historic and have a long history of self-defense

Also I´d like some clarification on what are blood debts mentioned by the PCP, though it doesnt seem problematic to me, just seems like an aknowloadgment that some people need to die for the revolution

Like how committees are created, finances arranged, needs determined, projects managed, and how awareness is spread.

The nitty gritty.

TIA

Hi! I'm looking for her diaries. Where can I find them please? Thank you!

Moving through leftist circles I have occasionally ran across this term and people identifying as it or some people using it as an insult. From context of the reference it seems that it’s someone who typically is pro Stalinism or someone who supports violent action and authoritarian forms of marxism. In looking it up I found that it was a term first used by British anarchist to criticize the ussr. As well as several different competing definitions I have found.

I am not personally making any claims against anything and not looking for arguments. I’m just genuinely curious and I am looking to understand what this form of Marxism actually stands for and what makes it different than other forms. Thanks for any information!

I am aware of the "Death of Stalin" film - if we can even consider it like a film of Stalin. However, I would like to know if there's any soviet, socialist or historically accurate movie of comrade Stalin's life.

Hi, I’m looking for this book. It used to be on archive org. I can’t find a copy on Abe books etc.

Can anyone help?

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I’m very new to learning about communism, so I might be melodramatic or idealistic. For those of you who follow the tech sphere, China just burst the bubble with an armor piercing round with an open-source model that outperforms OpenAI’s latest model while being completely free.

I tried it and its reasoning, accuracy, and non bias are impeccable. It lays out its “thought process” when it “thinks”.

I know capitalists are freaking out right now without even researching it. I just want to know what’s next for humanity as this the turning point.

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a good day today. I am reaching out to see if there are any parents on this page that could give me some thoughts for some questions I have regarding Communism and parenting. I am still very to to this and still in the beginning of learning. I just need some guidance. Please feel free to dm me! Thank you!

I want to get out there and contribute In some way

I'm looking to set up an internal wiki for our communist youth group. Has anyone good advice and is using something similar? What about other technical tools

In Vietnam, the Communist Party is the ruling party, directly governing the country and encompassing all professions and sectors. At the primary school level, there is the "Young Pioneer Team," and in secondary school, activities are organized under the "Communist Youth Union." In the workplace, companies often establish Party branches and labor unions for people to participate in. So, in countries like the U.S., Germany, Brazil, and others, what do communist parties do to persuade and attract people?

In the Revolutions podcast, Mike Duncan says during the episode 3.23 that Lenin studied this insurrection closely. Does anyone know:

1. where he sources this claim?
2. what Lenin might have read on the topic?

or 3) what Lenin took away from his studies on the insurrection?

Thanks in advance

I am curious if anyone can recommend a book that outlines what a transition to socialism (initial step on path to communism) would look like in today’s US. What would the mechanics be? Looking for a blueprint of such a transition. Thanks in advance.

Hello Comrades, English is not my first language, so please bear with me. Basically, I can't find almost any source that can differentiate the economic decentralization promoted by Mao Zedong from the decentralization done by Khrushchev in the 1950s. The only texts I found were an article from the Hoxhaist party, and it basically claims that Mao promoted a decentralized economy with anarcho-syndicalist tendencies. From what I understand, there was a process of transferring the means of production to local authorities and promoting trade between different regions.

Another text I found were excerpts from the Shanghai Textbook, which stated (if I interpreted it correctly) that this decentralization was more about consulting local authorities than giving them actual power.

What I want to know is whether these accusations from the Hoxhaists are true or exaggerated. What differentiated the reforms of Mao and Khrushchev? Do Maoists defend a decentralized economy (similar to the anarchist idea of self-sufficient communes trading with each other)? Wouldn't this hinder the path to communism, since the goal would be to progressively reduce mercantile relations in favor of conscious resource planning, and this decentralization only led to an increase in the role of the market? If this idea existed in the past, what is the current position of Maoists on it?

Sorry for the many questions, which may not necessarily be relevant today but arose after reading many economists associating Mao's decentralization with experiments for the later reforms of Deng in the 1970s/80s.

P.S.: Apologies for using the term "Hoxhaist", I’m just using it to differentiate them from Maoists.

Link to the Hoxhaist article: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/rpo-china.htm

Does anyone have sources to read on the line followed by ELN and FARC? It seems that ELN has launched an offensive in FARC controlled areas and I want to know more about the history of these two.