> looking for a new socialist party

> ask the general secretary if their party is marxist or lassallist

> she doesn't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is marxist and what is lassallist

> she laughs and says "it's a good party comrade"

> join the party

> its lassallist

“I must say that the Russian Bolsheviks have succeeded in forcing a breach in the old imperialism, in undertaking the exceedingly difficult, but also exceedingly noble task of blazing new paths of revolution, whereas you, the representatives of the working people of the East, have before you a task that is still greater and newer. It is becoming quite clear that the socialist revolution which is impending for the whole world will not be merely the victory of the proletariat of each country over its own bourgeoisie. That would be possible if revolutions came easily and swiftly. We know that the imperialists will not allow this, that all countries are armed against their domestic Bolshevism and that their one thought is how to defeat Bolshevism at home. That is why in every country a civil war is brewing in which the old socialist compromisers are enlisted on the side of the bourgeoisie. Hence, the socialist revolution will not be solely, or chiefly, a struggle of the revolutionary proletarians in each country against their bourgeoisie-no, it will be a struggle of all the imperialist-oppressed colonies and countries, of all dependent countries, against international imperialism

Characterising the approach of the world social revolution in the Party Programme we adopted last March, we said that the civil war of the working people against the imperialists and exploiters in all the advanced countries is beginning to be combined with national wars against international imperialism. That is confirmed by the course of the revolution, and will be more and more confirmed as time goes on. It will be the same in the East.

It is self-evident that final victory can be won only by the proletariat of all the advanced countries of the world, and we, the Russians, are beginning the work which the British, French or German proletariat will consolidate. But we see that they will not be victorious without the aid of the working people of all the oppressed colonial nations, first and foremost, of Eastern nations. We must realise that the transition to communism cannot be accomplished by the vanguard alone. The task is to arouse the working masses to revolutionary activity, to independent action and to organisation, regardless of the level they have reached; to translate the true communist doctrine, which was intended for the Communists of the more advanced countries, into the language of every people; to carry out those practical tasks which must be carried out immediately, and to join the proletarians of other countries in a common struggle

Such are the problems whose solution you will not find in any communist book, but will find in the common struggle begun by Russia. You will have to tackle that problem and solve it through your own independent experience. In that you will be assisted, on the one hand, by close alliance with the vanguard of the working people of other countries, and, on the other, by ability to find the right approach to the peoples of the East whom you here represent. You will have to base yourselves on the bourgeois nationalism which is awakening, and must awaken, among those peoples, and which has its historical justification. At the same time, you must find your way to the working and exploited masses of every country and tell them in a language they understand that their only hope of emancipation lies in the victory of the international revolution, and that the international proletariat is the only ally of all the hundreds of millions of the working and exploited peoples of the East.”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/22.htm

Is Lenin calling for communists to condone national liberation movements and support reactionary revolutions against imperialism here or am I just reading it wrong?

I hear this term all the time and I think I would try my hand at naming off ASS countries

Israel (Trotskyite)

Iran (Socialist Islamism Theocracy)

Burma (Anarcho-Communism)

Syria (Anarchism)

Spain (Fascist Monarchy)

Etc., Etc., “lovers of self,” “to and fro in the blink of an eye,” … Etc., impossible without the abolition of class society, capital and labor. History must progress to the end so that Christ can return. The movement that has locked history in place is social democracy. We will never see Jesus so long as there is social democracy. Social democrats want a stable society in an unstable society. They want us stuck in limbo out of their own EXCLUSIVE selfishness. The real movement that abolishes the present state of things will be the step in the right direction. A step towards the second coming. A step forward to the end. All who claim or denounce the name of Christ, but want to hold on to the present are the same. They are worshippers of the devil. Worshippers of his domain, indulging in it. If they have their way no one would ever hope to see their savior. The people of the real movement are lovers of self, not of the exclusive self, but of the whole self. Of humanity like Jesus and the Creator. That is why the real movement brings us one step closer to Him. History. His story. The movement of history begins with Him and ends with Him. From the communism of the primitive, of the Garden, to the communism of the future, of the Kingdom. The Alpha and Omega. Christianity rejects the notion of nations, the lovers of money, and the usufructuaries who damage the temple of the Lord with drink and pipe. But the real movement cannot be stopped. God cannot be stopped. He can be put on hold, but only for that the revenge will return seven fold. Setting the stage for a revenge that could only be global.

It was one am in the morning, I was curious about why people kept sending Mussolini speech bubbles so I decided to read "Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini. It was around 10-20 pages.

I started feeling sick right after that, I am shaking and have a stomach ache as I am writing this. The way Benito mentioned Marx in his book, I couldn't take it...

Am I a class traitor now? An opportunist perhaps..? Should I sacrifice my loved ones so Marx could forgive me and I could keep being a proletarian? Did comrade Engels curse me?

title + my friend wanted to know

but the walmart employees weren’t listening.

“they were the PEOPLE’S POLICE! THE PEOPLE’S POLICE!” i screamed, as i was pushed out of the door by a security guard.

i’ve never experienced such blatant DDR hatred before and i don’t know how to cope

As all communists should be familiar with, the goal of communists is to abolish commodity production and to do this we abolish the exchange of use values. Now, of course, the simplest way to abolish the exchange of use values would be to stop the need for use values. I call this program Revolutionary Enlightenment, and I'm sure it will be critical to the establishment of communism. Revolutionary Enlightenment shows that by rejecting the consumption of use values (material posessions) we can break the cycle of all history hitherto (the cycle of samsara) this achieving communism (nirvana). To do this we will all live collectively on a mountain in Tibet and dedicate ourselves purely to the communist cause. I believe this completely rational, scientific theory will be embraced by the communist party and world revolution.

I prefer to read books, and am more or less interested in stuff that expands upon what Marx theorized, or if there are some sort of "purer" revisions or translations or whatever of Marx's works that exist that I could be directed to. Going into this nearly completely blind, so please be nice.

At this point even I want to give Marx money.