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German classical philosophy was a movement of idealist philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Idealism is a philosophical position that holds that the only reliable experience of reality occurs within the human consciousness. Idealists believe that human reason is the best way to seek truth, and that consciousness is thus the only reliable source of knowledge and information.
- . . . fluctuating between proletariat and bourgeoisie, and ever renewing itself as a supplementary part of bourgeois society. . . The individual members of this class, however, are being constantly hurled down into the proletariat by the action of competition, and, as modern industry develops, they even see the moment approaching when they will completely disappear as an independent section of modern society, to be replaced in manufactures, agriculture and commerce, by overlookers, bailiffs and shopmen.
1. What is Marxism-Leninism? The inverted-hegelian synthesis of two parts: Marx's theoretical modeling of capitalism and Lenin's Praxis on imperialism + how to organize the proletariat for moving beyond capitalism. To begin diving into these two halves, let us use Marx and one of his chief inspirations, Hegel. Marxism inverts, or stands on its head, hegelianism, out of which falls a materialist philosophy. More specifically dialectical materialism, akin to hegelian dialectics, but rather couched in and biased towards materialism and historical materialism which is the understanding of science and history thru the lens of dialectical materialism. What does dialectical materialism mean in practice? Consider patriotism. Patriotism under the lens of dialectical materialism is both good and bad. Which of the two qualities is expressed depends on material conditions. Patriotism in AES, namely Laos, Cuba, Vietnam, China and the DPRK is extraordinarily based. As is patriotism in any country within the anti-imperialist block, like Bolivia or Palestine. By contrast, patriotism in the USA white-washes its brutal history. Which consists of nothing but slavery and genocide. Lenin adds to the marxism body of work in several ways. These include, imperialism, democratic centralism, the vanguard party, and praxis for the dictatorship of the proletariat. An extremely brief summary: his work outlines how the most radical elements of the working class must work together, united as Marxists, under a vanguard political organization to lead the working class in the overthrow of capitalism so that communism can be established.
2. What is socialism? The lowest stage of communism. A contradictory economic and ideological state (political economy) in which a society has established a dictatorship of the proletariat, yet still has many bourgeois elements, such as billionaires or private ownership of land mixed with more socialist elements like worker cooperatives and central planning. Countries in this phase of development include Cuba, Laos, the DPRK, China and Vietnam.
3. What is the dictatorship of the proletariat(DotP)? Per Lenin’s State and Revolution, the state is a tool of and arises out of class conflict. As such, in a class-based society there is a dictatorship. In most of the world, this is the dictatorship of the bourgeois, or the dictatorship of Capital over the wage-slave/proletariat class. The DotP, then, is the reversal of the bourgeois dictatorship wherein the state has been seized by the proletariat. The DotP thus oppresses Capital, begining the transition from capitalism to communism.
4. Explain the pre-conditions necessary for imperialism. The 5 pre-conditions are 1. a dominate monopoly capitalism. 2. finance capitalism, a merger of banking and industrial capital. 3. the export of capital thru the mcm cycle, rather than mere commodity exporting of the old colonial system. 4. there exists international monopolist organizations or cartels, like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. 5. the division of the world into global north or ‘core’ countries and global south ‘periphery’ countries. This core-periphery system is marked by the domination of core countries over subordinate countries by the above groups and tools.
5. What are the relations of production? The summation of all social relationships between people required so that they can survive, produce and reproduce. These can take the various forms of private production, as seen with slavery, feudalism and capitalism. In the form of socialism, namely thru state or public production. In the form of primitive communism thru clans or tribes production. Or in the form of communism, where production is cooperative and communal.
6. What is historical materialism? Historical materialism is the understanding of science and history thru the lens of dialectical materialism. It is the rejection of bourgeois history like 'the great man theory' and is the application of dialectical materialism's dialectical laws. This lens allows us to understand history as a series of of struggles between classes. Whether that’s slaves vs masters under slavery, serfs vs lords under feudalism, or employees vs employers under capitalism. Michael Parenti's history of Rome is a solid example of these principles put into the practice.
7. What is Mao's input to Marxism-Leninism? In the broadest of strokes, Mao adapted Marxism Leninism to the material conditions of Chinese society and culture. This is usually referred to as Marxism Leninism Mao Zedong Thought or ML-MZT for short. Some of his developments include 1. Imperialism is a paper tiger. 2. The mass line. 3. Primary contradiction.
8. What is political economy? It is the name for the school of study that lies at the intersection of political science, economics and sociology+history. The study of human wealth and material needs thru their production and distribution. The various production and distribution questions namely, by/for who, to do whats, the wheres, whys, and hows. Who does the production, where does distribution happen, how are goods and services produced/distributed and so on. As well as how the systems of production and exchange reproduce.
9. What is opportunism?
10. What is anarchism? Both Marxism Leninism and anarchism share the end-goal of a stateless, classless, moneyless (SCM) society. Where they differ is how to get there. Anarchists methods rely on Utopianism Socialism, that is, the realization of communism without any use of material analysis. More specifically, Anarchism posits that this SCM society can be reached simply by abolishing the state immediately, in full. Or with a single stroke, rather than a protracted effort requiring the use of the state and scientific principles as Marxism-Leninism advocates.
There are 6 major marxism leninism experiments thus far, these include the USSR, the DPRK, China, Laos, Cuba and Vietnam. These experiments have been highly successful. In particular, the USSR and China are Marxism Leninism experiments that gave birth to the two greatest economic miracles in the history of the human species. In a scant 50 years, the USSR went from one of Europe most backwards and poor societies to a world super-power, second only to the United States of America. China has had a similar ongoing miracle for the last 30-odd years. Rapidly accelerating its material wealth in ways the USSR could only dream of. By some estimates, China outgrew the United States economy is size and strength by 2015, and already is stronger by Parity Purchasing Power measures. Further, China is set to do so under bourgeois science standard of GDP some time within a decade as of writing. The real-world success of Marxism-Leninism is most visible in the facts that it produced the fast bulk of poverty reduction in the last hundred years and in the phenomenal handling of the COVID-19 crisis by China, Cuba, Vietnam and the DPRK.
Meanwhile what have anarchists accomplished? What anarchist experiments that have been attempted, like the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone have rapidly collapsed and failed to meaningfully overthrow the dictatorship of Capital or affect positive change in peoples’ lives. Penultimately, Anarchism fails to move humanity towards a SCM society. Ultimately, Anarchism is an ideology of failure.
- A Brief Introduction to Successful Marxism-Leninism Revolutions
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- A Brief Introduction to Successful Marxism-Leninism Revolutions
The Chinese flag has 4 little stars encircling a big star. The 4 stars are in unity, in an alliance with one another, represented by the big star. These 4 stars represent the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie.
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- timelines
The 5 flowers, the united states, and the ussr Potential timeline code. A short timeline of Marx and Engels, much of it taken from the 4th reprint of March 2020 of Critique of the Gotha Program published by Boitempo in Brazil.
| Year | Marx | Engels |
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| 1818 |
Karl Marx was born in Trier, capital of the Rhine province in the Kingdom of Prussia on May 5, into a small bourgeois family. |
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| 1820 |
Engels was born on November 28 in Barmen, Prussia. He grows up in a religious and conservative bourgeois industrial family. | |
| 1835 |
Marx writes Reflections of a young man on the choice of a profession and takes the final examination for a Bachelor's degree in Trier. Although he wanted to study philosophy and literature, he went on to study law at the University of Bonn at the age of 17 under pressure from his father. | |
| 1836 |
In the summer, she is engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, her neighbor and childhood friend in Trier. |
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| 1837 | You transfer to the University of Berlin.
In a letter to his father, he describes his contradictory relationship with Hegelianism, the prevailing doctrine of the time. |
At his father's insistence, Engels starts working in the family business. |
| 1838 | Marx leaves law school and begins to study philosophy.
Karl Marx's father dies on May 10. |
Engels begins to write literary and socio-political essays, poems and philosophical pamphlets in different periodicals. |
| 1839 | Engels starts to dedicate himself to the study of Hegel's philosophy. | |
| 1841 | He finishes his doctoral thesis on the differences between the philosophies of Democritus and Epicurus and receives his doctoral degree from the University of Jena on April 15. | |
| 1842 | He begins to collaborate with the newspaper Rhenish Gazette (Rheinische Zeitung, in German). | |
| On November 16th, Marx and Engels contact each other for the first time, on a visit of Engels to the headquarters of the Rheinische Zeitung. | ||
| 1843 | The Rheinische Zeitung is closed by the Prussian regime.
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In Manchester, Engels met Mary Burns (1823-1863), a young working woman with radical opinions. They began a relationship that lasted until her death two decades later, although they never married.
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| 1844 | Writes the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.
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| In Paris, Marx and Engels develop a close friendship and together they develop militant activities, which leads them to create ever deeper ties with the workers' organizations of Paris and Brussels. | ||
| 1845 | In collaboration with Engels, the book The Holy Family is published.
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| 1846 | Due to the lack of an editor, Marx and Engels gave up publishing The German Ideology, which would only be published for the first time in 1932 in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1847 | Marx and Engels joined the League of the Righteous, which would then be called the League of Communists. Both participated together in the First Congress of the League of the Righteous, where they were asked to write the Communist Manifesto. | |
| 1848 | In February, Marx and Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. | |
| 1859 | Publishes in Berlin, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. The book had not previously been published for lack of money. Marx comments on the case: "Surely this is the first time anyone has written about money with such a lack of it". The book, though expected, was not well received by his colleagues. | |
| 1867 | Publisher Otto Meissner publishes the first volume of Capital in Hamburg. | |
| 1875 | He writes observations to the Gotha Program of the German Social Democracy. | At the initiative of Engels, it is published Critique of the Gotha Program, by Marx. |
| 1878 | Publishes Anti-Dühring. | |
| 1883 | Marx dies in London on March 14. | He began to sketch the dialectics of nature, which would be published posthumously in 1927. At Marx's burial, he delivers the Speech at the grave of Karl Marx. |
| 1884 | Publishes The origin of the family, private property and the State. | |
| 1885 | Edited by Engels, the second volume of Capital is published. | |
| 1894 | Also edited by Engels, the third volume of Capital is published. | |
| 1895 | After long medical treatment, Engels dies in London on August 5. | |
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Marxism And Socialism With Chinese Characteristics by Jin Huiming https://archive.org/details/marxism-and-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics
Socialism With Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer https://archive.org/details/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics
Basics Of The Theoretical System Of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics by Xu Hongzhi, Qin Xuan https://archive.org/details/basics-of-the-theoretical-system-of-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics
Prominent Features Of The System Of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics by Xiangyang Xin https://archive.org/details/prominent-features-of-the-system-of-swcc
Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics by Deng Xiaoping https://archive.org/details/DengBuildSocialism
Socialist Economic System With Chinese Characteristics As The Inheritance And Development Of Scientific Socialism by Du Fengen, Cheng Enfu https://archive.org/details/socialist-economic-system-with-chinese-characteristics
The principal contradiction and its evolution in the new era of the socialism society with Chinese characteristics by Xinghua Wei https://archive.org/details/principal-contradictions-china
Marxism and Its Sinicized Theory as the Guidance of the Chinese Model: The “Two Economic Miracles” of the New China by Cheng Enfu https://archive.org/details/marxism-and-its-sinicized-theory-as-the-guidance-of-the-chinese-model
China's 40 Years Of Economic Reform And Development by Xinli Zheng https://archive.org/details/chinas-40-years-of-economic-reform
The Logic Of Economic Reform In China by Xiaojing Zhang, Xin Chang https://archive.org/details/the-logic-of-economic-reform-in-china
“Not Some Other -ism”—On Some Western Marxist Misrepresentations of Chinese Socialism by Roland Boer & Ping Yan https://archive.org/details/not-some-other-ism-on-some-western-marxist-misrepresentations-of-chinese-socialism
Calibrating The Direction Of China's Reform And Opening Up In The New Era by Jiamu Zhu https://archive.org/details/calibrating-the-direction-of-chinas-reform-and-opening-up-in-the-new-era
Meeting People’s Aspirations to Live a Better Life with a Mature and Established System in China by Xiangyang Xin https://archive.org/details/meeting-people-s-aspirations-to-live-a-better-life-with-a-mature-and-established-system-in-china
Mao Zedong Is the Great Founder, Explorer and Pioneer of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Wang Weiguang https://archive.org/details/mao-zedong-is-the-great-founder-explorer-and-pioneer-of-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics
Combining Marxism and China’s practices for the development of a socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics by Wei Liu https://archive.org/details/combining-marxism-and-chinas-practices-for-the-development-of-a-socialist-politi
Chinese Mode of Production by Wang Ran https://archive.org/details/chinese-mode-of-production
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Concise Guide by Roland Boer https://rolandtheodoreboer.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/roland-boer-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics-a-concise-guide-2021-1.pdf
On The Three Stages In The Development Of Socialism by Cheng Enfu https://archive.org/details/on-the-three-stages-in-the-development-of-socialism
Making “Four Important Distinctions” in Theoretical and Practical Issues by Qiushi https://web.archive.org/web/20171030191632/http://english.qstheory.cn/magazine/201101/201109/t20110920_111435.htm
Regarding the Construction of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics https://redsails.org/regarding-swcc-construction/
Soviet Timeline
Tsarist collapse, bolsheviks seize power, <-Pre-soviet 1922 ussr founded, 1937-38 purges,MR pact, 1964 brezhnev government takes power, 1991 ussr dissolves.
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