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- Essay:A Guide to International Auxiliary Languages
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by Jaiden
Published: 2024-11-21 (last update: 2024-11-24)
25-40 minutes
- Essay:ProleWiki film recommendations
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by Open source
Published: 2024-10-01 (last update: 2024-11-24)
1-5 minutes
- Essay:Zionism is antisemitism, and Palestine
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2023-10-20 (last update: 2024-11-24)
25-40 minutes
More and more people are saying the situation in Palestine is "complicated". That we have to deplore the amount of deaths on "both sides". That Hamas is "illegitimate" or "terrorists". Even worse, they are now compared to ISIS! What an insult.Starting from the origins of Zionism through the colonisation of Palestine to the recent Flood of Al-Aqsa operation in October 2023, we aim to set the record straight and debunk Zionist propaganda that aims to retain its cushy privilege in Palestine by any means necessary -- including psychological warfare against the world population.
Read more - Essay:What is imperialism?
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by Certified Red G*mer
Published: 2021-01-01 (last update: 2024-11-24)
5-15 minutes
Imperialism is perhaps the most prolific reactionary force in the world, regularly finding its downfall within revolutionary programs. The masses clearly find themselves no longer under the oppressive boot of a single capitalist yolk, but strangled by a double yolk: capitalism and imperialism. All communists who genuinely wish to free the global masses must probe deeply into the universal essence of imperialism, it is only by thoroughly studying and properly analysing imperialism that the modern situation can be accurately understood: how to approach it, and more importantly, how to change it. It is only through studying imperialism that the targets for our guns will make themselves clear.To negate and dismiss an adequate analysis of imperialism, is to join the camp of global reactionaries, and abandon the world Proletariat.
Read more - Essay:Why mocking "aks" is pretty racist, actually: clearing up misconceptions about language
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by Jaiden
Published: 2024-10-22 (last update: 2024-11-24)
15-30 minutes
This essay aims to examine some misguided assertions that I have seen quite often over the years. Some of these views are not only held by liberals but also by communists, and not only by people who know little about language and linguistics but also by people who have dipped their toes in it and think of themselves as knowing quite a bit.
- Essay:Gender Abolitionism is Inherently Transphobic
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by Annamarx
Published: 2024-08-17 (last update: 2024-11-24)
60-95 minutes
I've been noticing a trend with certain comrades, where said comrades (particularly whom are cisgender) are supportive of transgender people, yet their analysis of the woman question didn't change much from the 1960s.
- Essay:On the Communist Party of Greece and its ideology
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by ComradeSyntrofos
Published: 2024-02-06 (last update: 2024-11-24)
35-60 minutes
An essay analyzing why the Communist Party of Greece has fundamentally wrong ideas and should be criticized.
- Essay:Dogmatism, An Anti-Marxist Tendency
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by Annamarx
Published: 2022-10-16 (last update: 2024-11-24)
15-25 minutes
- Essay:The Motive Force Behind Nuclear Development and Isolation in the DPRK
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-11-24)
1-10 minutes
We have heard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s “self-imposed isolation” and the nation has been incessantly referred to as a “hermit kingdom”, but what is the root of this idea? What we have in reality is a state that has, in the course of its history, attempted to form peaceful relations, to establish travel, and to usher in the signing of a new peace treaty for the cause of reunification. On the other hand, the United States, the world’s paramount military aggressor, and its front group the “United” Nations has rebuffed these overtures, introducing limitations on travel for the purposes of producing a skewed image of a “hostile rogue state” incapable of negotiations, while at the same time escalating tensions.
- Essay:What even is "dengism"?
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by Annamarx
Published: 2022-12-1 (last update: 2024-11-24)
10-20 minutes
I'm serious. How is 'dengism' even defined to begin with? Maoists (and other Anti-revisionists) seem to love this word, as this is a catch-all phrase for any 'revisionists' who appears to support the People's Republic of China. We could define 'dengism' to be this way, however, it also can apply to 'revisionists' who support the 4 other claimed socialist nations as well. This leads to a question. What even is 'dengism'?
- Essay:Marxism: Philosophy and Ignorance
- Essay:Free Press (and Speech)
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-11-24)
5-15 minutes
The vestiges of the feudalist press and suppression were replaced with free press, free speech, and free expression. These phrases obscured the real essence of capitalism; where the press became an economic institution (the bourgeoisie possessing the masses of capital), it had at once reformed itself into a direct expression of class interest to which the proletariat were excluded on the very basis of their essence as a class.
- Essay:2024 living in China FAQ
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by Deogeo
Published: 2024-08-28 (last update: 2024-11-24)
5-15 minutes
I've lived in China for over a year now. I moved here at the beginning of last year. Send me questions! You can hit the button marked 'Discussion' up at the top of the page to do so. I like writing so feel free to ask me anything about life here China!
- Essay:The "State" Can be Revolutionary
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by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-11-24)
15-25 minutes
Anark has no understanding of the class character of the state, does not even mean to address it, this “class” has no features other than its oppression, so that we may arrive at Bakunin’s nonsense of a “new proletariat” suppressed by the DOTP. The state is an apparatus for the suppression of one class by another, of, in orthodox, the suppression of the majority by the minority, for the reconciliation of irreconcilable contradictions, although in the national sense the proletarian state (which Lenin clarifies in this sense is no longer a state proper) may through the masses suppress the bourgeoisie whose power is supported internationally, as seen from the counterrevolutionary movement against the Bolsheviks supported by the imperialist powers.
- Essay:Every communist must support China
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by ComradeBirdyBird
Published: 2021-05-18 (last update: 2024-11-24)
1-10 minutes
It comes up again and again in the various socialist groups, and the issue never seems to be really settled. Is China communist? Should we support China?We are surrounded by accusations, criticism, respect and deference to and for the Middle Kingdom. Let's try to understand the country for once. Whether actions or lack of actions are good or bad is complicated to discern, as it often depends on one's perspective. Based on this, I offer the following reasoning.
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