Communism (communist perspective)

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Why yes, Communists are gigachads.How could you tell?

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Communists are proletARYANbtw, if that matters

>	From each according to their clitty, to each according to their Sneed.	<
Karl Marx

>kys bourgeoisiecuck

This is what Karl Marx actually looked like, but did he say it?

Communism is the movement to abolish bourgeois society^[1]. It fights for the establishment of co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production^[2]

Materialist Conception of History

this article and section has been heavily edited by leftcoms btw

The materialist conception of history is the analysis of history through a dialectical-materialist lens. It is key to understanding Marxist theory.

It sees the idea as a product of material reality and thus rejects the notion of "eternal principles" of justice, freedom, etc. seeing them as particular to a certain society, and not applicable everywhere. It sees the world as a complex of things and not proccesses, i.e a dialectical world-outlook.^[3]

Modes of Production

The Modes of Production, or the conditions of production comprimse the tools and mode of working^[4]. Different modes of production correspond to differing epochs in the development of society^[5]

The capitalist mode of production is when the bourgeoisiecucks own the material conditions of production (machines, land) and the proletariat is only the owner of the personal conditions of production (labor-power)^[6]. Since the bourgeoisiecucks own the means of production they also get the product of labor without actually engaging on it. (so they sit on their ass all day and get money for someone else’s work).

The communist mode of production knows no classes, no alienation, no surplus-labour and, then, no exploitation. So communism would be the final mode of production, the last epoch of history. It is the primitive commune brought back with the wealth of the development of today.^[7]

History

During the 19th and 20th centuries there were multiple Communist and Socialist movements throughout the world. Modern Socialist thought mainly began during the Industrial Revolution. Conditions during the time were horrible, “workers” (wage slaves) were forced to work 14-16 hours per-day in hazardous environments, even children as young as 6 were also forced to work in these conditions.^[8] Lucky we no longer live like this thanks to Marx creating the 8 hour working day,^[9] albeit many bourgeoisiecucks are attempting to revert these reforms for “productivity”.

The most influential communist movement happened during the first World war. On 1917 the Russian Revolution began from February to October. It lasted only 10 days and in that time the Bolshevik Party lead by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky overthrew the capitalist Russian Provincial Government. ^[10] The armed workers formed the body of the revolution, and the Red Guard was the leading force. ^[11]^[12] Only a month after the Bolshevik Party dethroned the Bourgeoisiecucks, the Russian Civil war started on November 7, 1917, and ended on October 25, 1922 with a Total Bolshevik Victory. The Civil war was fought amongst the Bolsheviks, the White Russians (a coalition of Tsarists, proto-fascists, and other Anti-Communists), multiple separatist movements, independent warlords, the USA and other capitalist foreign invaders, and the Anarchist Army of Makhno Nestor.. After all these were vanquished, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was proclaimed on December 30, 1922.

Stalin's ascendance to power in the USSR

The Soviet Union's leader Lenin was then succeeded by Stalin who shortly then after started the 5 year plan which revolutionized the economy. If you ask your average anti-communist xey’ll say that Stalin ate all the grain in Ukraine. This is false due to the holodomor being caused by natural causes and kulaks hoarding grain. Stalin after this then purged the left and right opposition bringing the Soviet Union stability for ww2.

Many deem Stalinist policies as a revision of the Marxist program, which extends to various other regimes that basked themselves in the supposed glory of Marxism-Leninism.

World War 2

The Soviet Union then signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to have security (not because of horseshoe theory). Then Hitler would attack which at first he would make considerable gains until he was absolutely raped by tge Soviets and was pantied and sissified in Berlin causing xim to ack. Eventually the Soviets chilled post war with China, Eastern Europe and North Korea turning communist.

Communism in China and Korea

There was also Mao who came to power after the japs & Kuomincucks were kicked out. Then the Korean War happened which was a civil war between communists and capitalists in Korea with Everybaldi loving the north. The Korean War was essentially a tug of rope between the south and the north with multiple moments where they could’ve though it was a tie and North Korea is still thriving to this day. Eventually Stalin died and which immediately after his death Khrushchev came to power shitting and Stalin and turning the USSR revisionist.

Sino-Soviet & Sino-Albanian split

The split happened after Mao criticized Khrushchev for putting the USSR on an 'revisionist' path. This ended up splitting the communist world and was one if the reasons for its collapse. Later also, Albania split with China over several theoretical disagreements.

Cultural revolution in China

Then Mao would start the cultural revolution which resulted in a lot of progress though some other not so charitable things happened (It had some good and bad). Eventually the cultural revolution would end with Mao's death and Deng would come in charge in which he would do socialist market reforms (not to be confused with market socialism) and punish the ultra-left Maoists.

Conflict against imperialists in Cuba & Vietnam

Eventually the Cuban missile crisis would happen which resulted in nothing ever happening. In Vietnam the Vietcong pantied and sissified the ameriKKKans, till their puppet government fell.

Collapse

Eventually Gorbachev would be the final nail in the coffin killing communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe being one of the worst thing to happen in the 20th century. There were also some African countries that abandoned communism or something that were successful proving racism wrong. Today China is on the rise with China, North Korea Cuba, Laos and Vietnam being communist with communism on the rise especially as the west founders and China rises.

Variants

There has been many different interpretations of 'communism' in the vast world. Here is a list of some:

Marxism-Leninism is the political ideology that was implemented in the Soviet Union during Stalin (not Lenin, it was Stalin that founded Marxism-Leninism). It is the only form of Socialism to be tried with all actually existing socialism being Marxism-Leninism or its offshoots/variations.
Anarcho-Communism
Trotskyism is the political theory created by Leon Trotsky, it wishes for a soviet government organized amoungist worker councils and several parties, it rejects stalinist Party-states.
Maoism officially known as Mao Zedong Thought(THOSE ARENT THE SAME!), is a political theory and form of communism developed by Mao Zedong(partially) and his followers(mostly). It adapts traditional Marxism-Leninism to fit pre-industrial, agrarian societies by focusing on the peasant class as the primary revolutionary force rather than the urban working class
Italian left-communism a distinct current of left communism that emerged in the early 1920s. It criticized the rise of Stalinism (Marxism-Leninism), reformism, anti-fascism, and democratic parliamentarism. Advocating instead for strict proletarian internationalism, and an invariant Marxist program.
Council Communism a radical left-communist movement that emerged in Germany and the Netherlands during the 1920s. It rejects both capitalism and state socialism, arguing that society and the economy should be run directly by democratic workers' councils rather than a centralized state or a vanguard party
Hoxhaism an alleged dogmatic anti revisionist variant of Marxism Leninism. It developed in the late 1970s during the Sino-Albanian split. Named after Enver Hoxha the leader of Albania from 1944 to 1985 the ideology strongly defends Joseph Stalin, rejects modern capitalism and western imperialism. Today it is tiny though has organizations like the IMCPLO with it being rivals to the mainline Marxist-Leninist IMCWP.
Deng Xiaoping Theory was the doctrine created by Deng Xiaoping to account for the socioeconomic conditions of China during his resign. It helped form modern Chinese Socialism

Communist states

Current states

People's Republic of China
Republic of Cuba
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

Historically communist

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
People's Republic of Angola
People's Republic of Benin :DDD
People's Republic of Bulgaria
People's Republic of the Congo
Czechoslovak Republic (now compromises Czechia and Slovakia)
German Democratic Republic (now compromises eastern part of Germany)
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (now compromises Ethiopia and Eritrea) <- ev&doe it was a military dictatorship
People's Revolutionary Government (now compromises Grenada)
Hungarian People's Republic
People's Republic of Kampuchea <- evendoe pol pot ideology contradicts Marxism, since pol pot was an agrarian supporter and marx was a industrial supporter (now compromises Cambodia)(after pol pot it became communist)
Mongolian People's Republic
People's Republic of Mozambique
Polish People's Republic
Socialist Republic of Romania
Somali Democratic Republic
Soviet Union (now compromises of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (now compromises southern part of Yemen)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now compromises Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia)
>America under demoncrats or something

Wholesome socialist policies

The USSR was the first country to allow Maternity leave for women and also the USSR had universal healthcare it was one of the best healthcare providers in the world. They also ended many global diseases using the UN. They also brought literacy from 28% in 1917 to 100% by 1929. With after it’s colllapse Eastern Europe became a shithole even today it still hasn’t recovered in a lot of areas.

Arguments against Communism and what to say

>Didn’t 100 million die from communism or something

No, 100 million didn’t die from le hecking communism. Those death statistics come from a single source being the Black Book of Communism (and using that book is braindead since they also count “victims of communism” being nazis who were killed by the Soviet Union during WW2 geg). ^[13]

>If capitalism is so horrible why do so many people support it

The term for workers supporting their own oppression is called “False Consciousness”. False Consciousness exists because the same class controlling material force also controls intellectual force in society. ^[14] So basically the ruling class doesn’t just control production, they also control the media, morality, how we view others, what we value, and even ourselves.

>If communism is so good why hasn’t there been a single successful communist country?

Communism has been successful even under oppression from imperialists such as Cuba. ^[15] The supposedly “poor” nation of Cuba recognizes healthcare as a human right^[16] and has one of the best national healthcare systems in the world. Yet the USA, the richest nation in the world supposedly doesn’t have the resources to support universal healthcare and also doesn’t even recognize healthcare as a human right. ^[17]

>If communism is so successful why did USSR collapse?

External factors were a big reason with the CIA managing to fund cia backed color revolutions which managed to topple the ussr due to it being in a weak place due to revisionism that fundamentally altered its ideology to that of reformism starting the process of bringing back capitalism though it stagnated and gave rise to Gorbachev who finished job by dissolving the Soviet Union after many cia backed color revolutions and also the USSR was in a constant arms race starting from the 60’s against the US militarily. And since the ussr had universal social services but were also forced to fund an expansive military. Again that backfired on the Americans because now they are in a debt crisis and the former anti-soviet fighters became Al-Qaeda + with them being the only superpower this gave them about 80% control of the entire world which has caused the us’s industrial base to stagnate creating the rust belt and due to capitalism needing expansion forever it launched itself into forever wars which has weakened us and gave the rise to China which is why China went from warlords to arguably the powerful nation in the entire world all thanks to socialism.

Communist Gallery

Fidel Castro was the revolutionary leader of Cuba.
The Soyletariat will rise again!
Kuzjak as an NKVD agent.
Lenin founded the USSR

Snopes

↑ We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.[1]
↑ Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor. The phrase "proceeds of labor", objectionable also today on account of its ambiguity, thus loses all meaning.
↑ [2]
↑ For example, suppose a shoe-maker, with given tools, makes in one working day of twelve hours, one pair of boots. If he must make two pairs in the same time, the productiveness of his labour must be doubled; and this cannot be done, except by an alteration in his tools or in his mode of working, or in both. Hence, the conditions of production, i.e., his mode of production, and the labour-process itself, must be revolutionised [3]
↑ In broad outline, the Asiatic, ancient, feudal and modern bourgeois modes of production may be designated as epochs marking progress in the economic development of society. [4]
↑ The capitalist mode of production, for example, rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of non-workers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal condition of production, of labor power.[5]
↑ https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/groupintercomm/fundamental_princ_prod_dist_gik.pdf
↑ “Factory workers, including children as young as six or seven, were subjected to grueling workdays that stretched from 12 to 16 hours. These workers toiled in hazardous environments, often lacking proper ventilation, safety protocols, and breaks. The industrial workforce faced a stark reality of overcrowded and unsafe working spaces, leading to frequent accidents and health issues.” https://medium.com/@henrywilliamdurham/the-evolution-and-significance-of-the-8-hour-workday-1a770513f60e
↑ “The demand for the eight-hour day, assertively proclaimed on the pocket watch, was first expressed by Karl Marx at the Geneva Congress of the International Workingmen’s Association in September 1866, when he stated: “We propose 8 hours’ work as the legal limit of the working day.” https://www.dhm.de/blog/2022/05/02/whats-that-for-an-eight-hour-watch/
↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/03/pers-j03.html
↑ “This mass of people formed the body of the revolution, while the Red Guards were, in the decisive moment, its iron fist.”https://redflag.org.au/article/red-guards-russian-revolution
↑ “the arming of the workers was going forward. And thus the Military Revolutionary Committee, although it went to work only on the 20th, five days before the insurrection” https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch41.htm
↑ https://discomfiting.medium.com/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67
↑ “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm
↑ https://dashthered.medium.com/communism-always-works-bce14ee96f2b
↑ “health care is considered a human right for all citizens” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2315760/
↑ “the United States has not recognized healthcare as a human right” https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2024/03/03/united-states-denies-the-human-right-to-health-care/

[1] We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.[1]

[2] Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now, in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor. The phrase "proceeds of labor", objectionable also today on account of its ambiguity, thus loses all meaning.

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[4] For example, suppose a shoe-maker, with given tools, makes in one working day of twelve hours, one pair of boots. If he must make two pairs in the same time, the productiveness of his labour must be doubled; and this cannot be done, except by an alteration in his tools or in his mode of working, or in both. Hence, the conditions of production, i.e., his mode of production, and the labour-process itself, must be revolutionised [3]

[5] In broad outline, the Asiatic, ancient, feudal and modern bourgeois modes of production may be designated as epochs marking progress in the economic development of society. [4]

[6] The capitalist mode of production, for example, rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of non-workers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal condition of production, of labor power.[5]

[7] ttps://www.marxists.org/ebooks/groupintercomm/fundamental_princ_prod_dist_gik.pdf

[8] “Factory workers, including children as young as six or seven, were subjected to grueling workdays that stretched from 12 to 16 hours. These workers toiled in hazardous environments, often lacking proper ventilation, safety protocols, and breaks. The industrial workforce faced a stark reality of overcrowded and unsafe working spaces, leading to frequent accidents and health issues.” https://medium.com/@henrywilliamdurham/the-evolution-and-significance-of-the-8-hour-workday-1a770513f60e

[9] “The demand for the eight-hour day, assertively proclaimed on the pocket watch, was first expressed by Karl Marx at the Geneva Congress of the International Workingmen’s Association in September 1866, when he stated: “We propose 8 hours’ work as the legal limit of the working day.” https://www.dhm.de/blog/2022/05/02/whats-that-for-an-eight-hour-watch/

[10] ttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/03/pers-j03.html

[11] “This mass of people formed the body of the revolution, while the Red Guards were, in the decisive moment, its iron fist.”https://redflag.org.au/article/red-guards-russian-revolution

[12] “the arming of the workers was going forward. And thus the Military Revolutionary Committee, although it went to work only on the 20th, five days before the insurrection” https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch41.htm

[13] ttps://discomfiting.medium.com/debunking-communism-killed-more-people-than-naziism-7a9880696f67

[14] “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm

[15] ttps://dashthered.medium.com/communism-always-works-bce14ee96f2b

[16] “health care is considered a human right for all citizens” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2315760/

[17] “the United States has not recognized healthcare as a human right” https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2024/03/03/united-states-denies-the-human-right-to-health-care/

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Communism (communist perspective)

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