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...
- 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. | |