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- Essay:Summary and Defense of Lenin's Theory of Imperialism
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2025-12-05)
20-35 minutes
- Essay:State Capital vs. Finance Capital: Why China is not -- and Cannot Become -- an Imperial Hegemon
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2025-12-05)
20-35 minutes
- Essay:A thousand chains we will have to break
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-11-15 (last update: 2025-12-05)
5-15 minutes
What is the morality of the communist? What are our ethics? On what basis? The morality adequate to our struggle is not the morality of the ruling class dressed as universal ethics but the morality born from the recognition that our liberation requires their expropriation, that our humanity requires the negation of their inhumanity, that our flourishing requires the transformation of the system that produces our immiseration.
- Essay:All of Mexico awaits the death of the dollar
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-06 (last update: 2025-12-05)
5-10 minutes
- Essay:Intellectual property in the times of AI
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2025-11-07 (last update: 2025-12-05)
55-90 minutes
Regardless of one's feelings on the matter, we can clearly say that AI has been transformative because it never fails to provoke heated arguments. And not only that, but the arrival of commercial models, that is, models that can be run either in your browser (on a cloud service) or on your own machine (local) seems to have shifted perspectives entirely. What becomes bothersome is that self-proclaimed communists seem to have done a complete 180 on intellectual property, and this is what we want to focus on.
- Essay:THESES ON POSITIVISM
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-11-02 (last update: 2025-12-05)
5-15 minutes
The positivists have thus far only interpreted nature as data; the task, however, is to dissolve the observer into the process, to make science itself a moment of praxis.
- Essay:In defense of Aileen Wuornos: Dialectical materialism vs. Criminal law
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-10-26 (last update: 2025-12-05)
25-45 minutes
This was not individual tragedy but structural violence made visible, the routine operation of capitalist patriarchy proceeding through its normal channels toward its normal outcome. She is dead. The structure that killed her remains. It is producing others like her at this moment, subjecting them to the same conditions, offering them the same impossible choices, preparing them for the same destruction. Our task is to identify with precision what must be abolished and to organize the collective force necessary to abolish it.This requires dialectical materialist analysis capable of grasping totality without losing sight of individuals, structural determination without eliminating agency, historical necessity without accepting the inevitability of any particular outcome. It requires rage disciplined by theory and compassion disciplined by materialism.
Read more - Essay:Against gender libertarianism
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by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2025-10-20 (last update: 2025-12-05)
1-10 minutes
This essay discusses the nature of gender libertarianism, expanding on the ideas of comrade Sanserifseraphim.
- Essay:The Two Perspectives on the Transgender Question
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by Sansserifseraphim
Published: 2025-10-20 (last update: 2025-12-05)
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In the history of the transgender question there are primarily two perspectives which have emerged and developed since the late 19th century. Those two views are: Social Pathology or Social Revolution. The social pathology view emerges in its modern form with the development of capitalism and science (specifically sociology, psychology, and eugenics) is it fundamentally rooted in sophistry, the continual questioning of trans existence. The second perspective is social revolution, while prefigured by scientific developments especially in Germany and the early Soviet Unions. It emerges alongside the second wave feminist, civil rights, and gay rights movements of the 20th century. It is generally the view held by the most politically organized members of the trans community, and was developed by organizations like Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries1 and the Worker’s World Party2, events like the Stone Wall Riots, and people like Sylvia Rivera and Leslie Feinberg. The social revolutionary perspective is rooted in science and an understanding of the class and patriarchal roots of trans oppression.
- Essay:On Prostitution
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-10-17 (last update: 2025-12-05)
25-45 minutes
Is prostitution just another job? Or is it fundamentally coercive i.e. commodified intimacy extracted through economic desperation that cannot be reformed, only abolished? Can consent exist under threat of destitution? Does calling it "sex work" liberate anyone, or does it naturalize existing structures and social relations? If revolutionary violence against structures is justified, what becomes of systems built on gendered commodification? These aren't moral questions but material ones, demanding answers grounded in class struggle rather than liberal platitudes about "choice" and "empowerment". This text attempts to rigorously face the various questions directly.
- Essay:Femboys and the structure of gender
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by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2025-10-17 (last update: 2025-12-05)
5-15 minutes
This paper discusses gender and it’s interactions, internal mechanisms and development through a dialectical-materialist lens, and is to be treated as a piece denoting a framework which must be developed upon collectively to further our understanding of gender and it’s interplay with society.
- Essay:Against "anti-capitalism"
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by Mitzo
Published: 2025-10-11 (last update: 2025-12-05)
1-5 minutes
Something that bothers me is the label of "anti-capitalist" as if it's a real, concrete belief, and not just a rule of thumb. it's been used for marxists, anarchists, social-democrats, etc. But the truth is, most ideologies are anti-capitalist by this definition, even if, materially, they serve only to reinforce capitalism and strike against proletarian organization.
- Essay:Imperialism: The Current Highest Stage of Cultural Erasure
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-10-10 (last update: 2025-12-05)
10-20 minutes
In which I explain how we survived and why we are now under threat of cultural extinction.
- Essay:Ecological crisis and the Marxist understanding and resolution from a dialectical materialist lens
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-09-29 (last update: 2025-12-05)
15-30 minutes
This paper addresses two interconnected questions concerning the dynamics of a classless communist society. First, with the abolition of class antagonisms, what drives historical development and growth, and is progress even possible without class contradictions as the engine of history? Second, if growth continues and non-antagonistic contradictions persist between humanity and nature, who or what enforces necessary limits and restraints to prevent humanity from exhausting nature and thereby destroying itself, given that humanity exists not separate from or above nature but as an integral part of it?
- Essay:Indigenous Principles
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by Charhapiti
Published: September 3rd 2025, originally drafted June 9th 2024 (last update: 2025-12-05)
10-20 minutes
Furthermore, every individual is originally native to some place based on historical relationship to a Community, and their membership to a Community is defined by a complex and nuanced interaction of lineage from that Community and their actual productive activity, their work. (...) We thus conclude that the indigenous question is the national question, and the national question is the indigenous question. The national question is a question of unity and of community and of people and of collectivism. The national question is a question of love, and Communism is all about the practical expression of the highest form of non-egoic, selfless love directed towards all humanity and all life: through service to the people a Communist demonstrates the principle: we want everyone to be well fed, to thrive, to be happy. In fact, the national struggle is also the class struggle, so the indigenous struggle is too a class struggle. For after all, every national and class struggle is a struggle for control and ownership of a state. If indigenous people are to liberate themselves, they must control the state. Yet at any given time, a state is controlled only by a specific class. Therefore, it is always a dictatorship of the proletariat representing the interests of the indigenous population that Communists should be struggling for and nothing less.