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From what i understand, successful rural guerrillas like the Shining Path and FARC weren't able to overthrown their governments because of low popular support on cities.
Why is that? How can we overcome this problem? I want to study that. If anyone got good books/videos/documentaries on the history of the Shining Path, the FARC, IRA, the Red Faction, and whatever you think will help, please share them.
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>>21764
I would say, the PCP-SL, like the CPP or the CPI (maoist) had (and have for the last two) to fight just like the CPC under Mao. What i'm trying to say is, a Guerrilla has to perservere during decades of conflict. Those decades may even be a century, but one of the truths as communists we know is that of contradictions. Though they may be for some or a lot of time slow to develop, they eventually come to a point which the guerrillas who follow a correct theoretical line can use to advance.

The other problem is that of establishment of a guerrilla in developed countries without the semi-feudal conditions the three i mentioned have.

Now, the answer i have has no example whatsoever and has no study involved. But see how Cyberpunk is described? How, there, capitalism evolves towards a complete dystopia? It is possible that capitalism can come to that, and that dystopia can create the conditions for an armed wing of Communist Party.

I have this conclusion from seeing how Japan is, they haven't come to that point though. But they are capitalism to an extreme, just not an Oligarchy, rather its people are massively depressed.

And not only that, even in countries with a history of progressive (yet liberal) measures like Northern Europe, there are signs of how capitalism makes a people depressed by expecting them to work like slaves and to exceed.

So i see capitalism is reinforcing its contraditions and it can come to a point where government has no power left, because capitalism has. Once that is achieved, a guerrilla can be possible.

By the way, people, this is a hypothesis, i ain't trying to give this a serious thought.


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>>24326
The failure of violent revolution like the Paris Commune is not because they betrayed the "contradictions" but rather due to the stragic failures of the people involved instead. For examples, not seizing the banks where they could be used to fund their goals, not attacking the government army, etc. It is literally such failures, not "unfollowing contradictions", resulted in their defeats. This can be avoided through observing the patterns of events and adjusting one's own decisions based on to it.

Events in a materialist sense is like the results of contradictions rather than existing independently from it. The contradictions itself can't be unfollowed since it is causal to all events. On the other hand, the theories of revolutionary terrorism are well developed and there are actions guided by them. Some people are better off fighting than to be enslaved. There are de facto free zones being established through terrorism like the areas under control of the Maoist ICP and SDF.

Northern Europe is not "progressive" nor does Japan (note how ridiculous "progressive" combined with "liberal" is) since they're reactionary by bing bourgeois and follows a doctrine of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. "Oligarchy" is the rule of the bourgeoisie, it is another way of telling the story. There is no factors preventing you from fighting gurrilla warfare as long as you can gather the material needed. It is literally possible to get a gun plus there are like-minded people as well. The concept "power dynamic" didn't predict the success of the Bolsheviks nor the CCP and turned reactionary by being used to deter any attempts to build communism through revolution instead.

>>24329
I was the OP of what you're replying. You actually made sense, i'm still reading some theory. But one question do i have, is revolution inevitable due to the inherent contradictions of capitalism? I mean, that's what i get from revolutionary socialism. But if yes, what we actually need, instead of blinding imitating PPW or the October Revolution, to study the actual conditions of the country we belong to and then take the steps to conquer power through what's best in the situation?

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>>24333
>What we actually need is a successful revolution, a revolution that overthrows the entity of state violence at once, that is distinguishable from other entities. All other revolutions, involving terrorism, or since they involve terrorism, are not supported by "contradictions" in a revolutionary socialist sense, are not out of thorough considerations nor fit for their revolutionary goals, therefor not relevant.

>We belong to "countries"


None of the statements are true>>24333



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Is there a PDF or book that explains the planned economic history and governmental structure of the Soviet Union in EXTREME and gritty technical & analytical detail while preferably including the Bolshevik group's ideals and wartime strategies leading to the October Revolution? Things like how precisely was the government set up, how was the economy and it's commerce were planned and what was the distinct bureaucratic structure. I'll be eternally greatful

Request fulfilled; see:
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>Literally every dictionaries you can find on google are bourgeois with "indoctrinate" and "propagate" being treated unequally and "consumerist" being listed as "derogatory" and stuff

I want to know what English dictionaries could be used ideally for a person learning Marxist critiques? Is there any good dictionary at all?
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>>24234
>and "consumerist" being listed as "derogatory"
It is thobeit.

>>24236>>24238

1. The bourgeois interpretation of language is being listed as common usage regardless the fact. For example: the term "bourgeoisie" being defined firstly "the middle class" then the common defination "in a Marxist context" in Oxford Dictionary. Such distinction of "Marxist context" should not exist since the Marxist and liberal contexts are parallel instead of one is greater than another.

2. Bourgeois dictionaries are being used to legitimize the distatorship of the bourgeoisie. A classic example is oligarch vs entrepreneur in OED where the role of the former in state institutions is present with subjective interpretation that attempted to label them as being mostly related to former Societ Union. (not true) On the other hand, the latter is a bourgeois newspeak of the former and are being used daily to mitigate the political meaning of the former, as well as manipulation of the image of the subject to make them compatible with bourgeois morals (taking the risks) thus legitimizing their rule through moral superiority. Both mitigation and manipulation are propaganda. Such acts need be countered by dictionaries that point out the political meaning of the latter from a Marxist critique.

>>24241
>Such distinction of "Marxist context" should not exist since the Marxist and liberal contexts are parallel instead of one is greater than another.
Valid, I think it'd be nice to see that formatted like a table instead.
>A classic example is oligarch vs entrepreneur in OED where the role of the former in state institutions is present with subjective interpretation that attempted to label them as being mostly related to former Societ Union. (not true)
I knew Oxford was trashy but Holy Shit.

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>>24234>>24241
Midori is not a real catgirl but some hybrid biomechanical creature like a raw organ plunged into a body of anime girl where the "mechanical" parts of her body is solely built for sexual attraction like genitalia which anime girls themselves are pretty similar since they're not people, they're the materilized sexual attractiveness that serves a capitalist agenda of treading the ability of the production of semen for production goods for the gain of the bourgeoisie.

You can created bio-enhanced semi-catgirl soldiers to fight in Ukraine, where they're faced the danger of being raped by a 3BM60 APFSDS in the ass and may need a proctectomy in the battlefield conditions where they're constantly bombed by Putin's artillery. It is not the ideal condition for a cat maid that is 15 years old since she may get splinter injuries over her face and will be made looked bad in a capitalist aesthetics and will not benefit the slave owner in a slave labour market of the catgirls




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Where can I get a periphery perspective on the imperial core?

I would be interested in an outside analysis. I feel like everyone here is absolutely fucked in the head.

Are there like Chinese ethnographies of America? I wonder what revolutionaries fighting in India have to say about the imperial core. Shit like that.

Okay, found Wang Huning's "America Against America" which is very interesting so far.



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This resource also acts as a copypasta that is to be posted on threads created by liberals that espouse said ideology's talking points.
Combat Liberalism by Mao Zedong
We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon. But liberalism rejects ideological struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a decadent, Philistine attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain units and individuals in the Party and the revolutionary organizations. Liberalism manifests itself in various ways:
> To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.
> To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination. This is a second type.
> To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame. This is a third type.
> Not to obey orders but to give pride of place to one's own opinions. To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.
> To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.
> To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>24217
>We could name more.
Combat Liberalism DLC when?
What are some other types of liberalism to combat?



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Is mathematics discovered or invented? I my opinion I suspect that math is discovered, if so, that imply that there's a "true" reality that is independent of human invention and opinions, so, what's the LeftyPol opinions about the nature of mathematics?
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its discovered and is just one manifestation of the higher order or Absolute

>>22934
Discovered but indelibly partial due to the interfacing of human limitations, so both 'real'/a fragment of the absolute, symptomatically, and also insufficient/a construct of the human mind in correspondence to its perceptible immediacy.
In other words, it is partially discovered and partially invented.

HOLY IDEALISM

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How do we educate and radicalize the downwardly trending PMC, the educated, the Wine-Moms, the Rural Lumpen-Proles, the population of the country. We are clearly heading towards revolutionary conditions. We can't miss the chance like the French did in May 68, or fail like the counter-culture did. How does it happen? Is there hope?
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>>24107
Wine moms, depending on how you define/identify them, are perhaps some of the best suited (some of them) to turning left. A lot of them just buy into whatever NPR or MSNBC tell them sure, but so many feel disappointed and dejected every time the Democrats fail. I know because I literally see it. The American voter, buy being so uneducated, have such insane politics it would drive you mad. I've met Hillary Clinton Stans who also love Luigi Mangione, or Pussy hat wearing protesters who want to see tribunals for ICE. It's crazy. You can't pick and choose your population in the country, you just have to work with who you have.


>>24121
>Wine moms, depending on how you define/identify them, are perhaps some of the best suited (some of them) to turning left.
Just start asking them about Palestine and they'll start talking about how the Free Palestine movement is a Russian conspiracy against the Democrats. Ask them how they feel about homeless people and they'll say they should be sent "somewhere" unspecified and that it's all mental illness and drug addiction that has absolutely nothing to do with obscenely high rent. Given the Hitler particles you can see just oozing from the "Wine Mom" types when you bring up homelessness, I honestly wonder what "somewhere" they have in mind. They don't want socialism, they want another Obama and they'll get that in 3 years, likely in the form of Cory Booker.

You start with a clear and concise idea of communism, based on Marx's writings, and establish a political program of tactics meant to bring about that idea. Then you ask people if they agree with your program and if they do, they can join your movement.

If you don't give a shit about the end goal you're gonna have a bad time. The average alienated worker's ideas are a grab bag of incoherence, even if they are 'radicalized' they are not gonna swing your way unless you dose them with logic. Maybe you could have some success with single-issue campaigns but those never lead to anything greater and can easily be copied or co-opted by the reactionary right.

>>24098
No offense but OPs like these are why people don't like leftism.

>>24106
>Have you seen the tendencies of the rural working class? Or like, everyone in America.
Here's something you don't hear because the online Left is more likely to have read Sakai than Marx: The average Russian worker in 1917 was about as racist as the average White worker in America at that time. What were pogroms but the equivalent of lynching in America? Yet, they created socialism, not fascism. That's because there was a revolutionary party with a revolutionary theory; instead what we have are a bunch of petit-bougeois podcasters and their fans whose entire slogan to workers is "Live with less" instead of "Peace, Land, Bread". This New "Left" notion that petit-bougeois activists and intellectuals are going to save the world should die already.



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>Labour, by its very nature is unfree, unhuman, unsocial activity, determined by private property and creating private property. Hence the abolition of private property will become a reality only when it is conceived as the abolition of labour.

>Karl Marx, Draft of an Article on Friedrich List’s book: Das Nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie, 1845



I’ve been thinking for a while about starting a study group on how the idea of labor has been reconstructed throughout the history of philosophy—once I’m done with my thesis. I’ve never actually organized one, and only joined one briefly before, but reading Bataille (my favorite degenerate and the focus of my thesis) got me thinking about trying a genealogical critique of labor. Plus, it gives me the perfect excuse to get back into some anarchist and communist texts I’ve been meaning to revisit for a while.

If you’ve got any tips on running study groups or know of any good readings on the topic, I’d really appreciate the suggestions.

Why is labor allowed to be hated but not education?



 

Something I have never seen seriously discussed is reprimand when a laborer breaks some rule. Let’s take the example of absenteeism or repeated failure to follow safety rules (either those that protect the worker or those protect the consumer).

On the anti-communist side, I see the standard criticism of forced labor, which doesn’t really answer my question. On the pro-communist side I just hear anecdotes that amount to “we won’t need that because personally I will never break safety rules!” which also doesn’t answer my question, but I love that for you.

So where can I find examples of these policies written out? Has no one thought about workplace misbehavior at all? It’s really difficult to find anything that discusses this.
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Amazing how people will readily question the need for labor discipline but will get offended over questioning school discipline

Labor disciplines itself when set to some task. If you don't do the job assigned to you, if you don't pull your weight, you won't work at some place. The other workers do not want you there.

All of this was premised on the idea that workers know how to work and didn't need to be told. That is the most basic rule. The workers in charge means exactly that; that there is a body among the workers that handles disciplinary action.

The moment you introduce some technocratic management from outside, where the incentives are not the workers' own, you've already detracted from the task of labor itself. This is how you shit up a workplace, create intrigues, and get the slaves to attack each other. It's always for that purpose. It is premised on the belief that workers are evil and stupid and will just destroy everything if they're not managed by a boss that is detached from labor and sees labor as a purely desultory and miserable act.

Sadly, the mangers were proven true, and this happened mostly because the workers really were evil, because they were taught that evil is stronger than any goodness in the world. If workers do not want society, then what exactly are they doing among society? The genuine aim of the laboring classes is to be free of overbearing management, and they will work towards that aim. Once established, they turned viciously against other workers and the lowest class, having established security for themselves and their buddies. There is no law of labor itself or "law of nature" that required this to happen. That is how history for humans turned out, for reasons humans understood well but that "the theory" insisted wasn't happening as it was happening.

If however the question assumes that workers do this purely out of incompetence rather than malice, that is a faulty assumption. Anyone who works learns by heart what is necessary for whatever work task they are set to. If they do not know this, they will have to learn, or they will surely sink. The malice of labor against other laborers was already established in humanity since time immemorial. What management desired was to intensify that malice and glorify it, naturalize it, and essentialize it. If that was accomplished, then any impulse of the workers to band together out of necessity would be permanently negated—and so it was done, and the workers could only watch as they were set against each other by intrigues and schemes, and then were told it was illegal Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

There's more to discipline than punishing misbehavior. It's more a question of how to effectively motivate workers to work more.

>>12574
>Of course more remuneration for working longer hours and odd hours is something to be kept. And it makes sense to have some element in the salary that is performance-based as long as that performance can be unambiguously measured. Like carrying sacks… I have to admit I don't think most jobs are unambiguous like that. Some bonus might be distributed by co-workers voting on who should get it.
You are a social democrat

>>24181
The right of the producers is proportional to the labor they supply; the equality consists in the fact that measurement is made with an equal standard, labor.

But one man is superior to another physically, or mentally, and supplies more labor in the same time, or can labor for a longer time; and labor, to serve as a measure, must be defined by its duration or intensity, otherwise it ceases to be a standard of measurement. This equal right is an unequal right for unequal labor.



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It's February. Post and discuss works related to Afrika, Afrikan peoples, and the global diaspora.

<You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.

<Fred Hampton
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Here's a primer on Anarkata and contemporary black anarchism.

Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas

Anarkata: A Statement
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarkata

Diggin’ In: On the Nature of Black Power (An Intro To Anarkata Thought)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/afrofuturist-abolitionists-of-the-americas-diggin-in-on-the-nature-of-black-power

Mapping our Legacy: The Narrative of Black Freedom Struggle
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-mapping-our-legacy


Black Autonomy Federation
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Pan-Africanism is really Utopian at this point in time. You might as well be talking about pan-slavism or pan-orientalism or pan-Indianism(whatever the term for the subcontinent would be) or pan-Latinoism. If you were to say any of these others it seems immediately farcical but people always want to LARP about pan-Africanism for some reason.

>>23568
>CRT and Black Feminism
Bougie Liberal Navel-Gazing. This thread is about BLACK LIBERATION under SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM not vapid idpol analysis

https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Jackson/copinyourhead/

This deserves a read even if just for the coining of the word negrosie




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