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1. What is Marxism-Leninism? The hegelian synthesis whose two parts are Marx's theoretical modeling of capitalism and Lenin's Praxis on how to move 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 a understanding of science and history thru the lens of dialectical materialism.
Lenin adds to this body work in several ways. These include, imperialism, democratic centralism, the vanguard party, and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Imperialism is the understanding that the business cycle or the boom-and-bust cycle is anti-competion. Or pro-monopoly. This is the engine that has produced the modern megacorp, like BlackRock or Disney. To quote Muchael Parenti... INSERT QUOTE ABOUT EXPANSION IN BEGINNING OF YELLOW TALK HERE
2. What is socialism?
The lowest stage of communism. A contradictory economic and ideological state in which a society has established a dictatorship of the proletariat yet still has many bourgeois elements. The root of which is capitalist enterprises. Countries in this phase of development include Cuba, Laos, the DPRK, China and Vietnam.
3. What is the dictatorship of the proletariat?
4. Explain the pre-conditions necessary for imperialism.
5. What are the relations of production? 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....
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? Imperialism is a paper tiger.
8. What is political economy? The study of human wealth and material needs thru their production and distribution.
9. The study of the production and distribution 9. What is opportunism? 10. What is anarchism? Both communism and anarchism share the end-goal of a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Where they differ is how to get there. Anarchists methods rely on utopianism. They declare the state to be abolished immediately with...
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