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“When the Paris Commune took the management of the revolution in its own hands – the old world writhed in convulsions of rage at the sight of the Red Flag, the symbol of the Republic of Labor, floating over the Hôtel de Ville.” - Karl Marx
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@bolshefish
classical social democrat
Joined September 2021
- many of you have the same politics of pre-fascist mussolini. you aren’t immune to becoming him.
- what a stupid point to make. the october revolution and the soviet experience demonstrated (again!) that another world is possible, even if it may have been deeply faulty.
- i think you can deduce that that they are petit-bourgeois from the fact that they own a business.sorry but where did you get "petite bourgeois" from "black and native owned businesses"
- “In all my writings, I never called myself a social democrat, but a communist. For Marx, as for me, it is absolutely impossible to use such an elastic expression to designate our concept.” - Engels, 1894
- communism is the real movement that abolishes the present state of things (however, it does not abolish the state, nations, religion, etc… those are eternal, you silly ultra)
- Replying to @catpoopburglar and @StatisticUrbanbiggest self-report and most blatant cope i’ve ever seen. do you know anything about the history of socialist movements at all?
- Replying to @liverpoolsolfedthis is such a joke. conflating israeli colonialism and palestinian resistance is blatant chauvinism
- acting like russian colonisation and imperialism didn’t exist …
historian professor at yale thinks contemporary russia invented colonialism 🕊️ - the whole of this thread relies on the conflation of the political victory of the proletariat in one country and the existence of an isolated lower-phase communism, as a mode of production, in one country. literally pure sophistry.🧵LENIN ON SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY 📚 A collection of 179 Lenin quotes on the possibility of "Socialism in one Country" ("SIOC") and the conditions for its final victory on global scale 179 tweets in chronological order (1915–23) each with 1 excerpt + date + source🔗+ picture
- the revolution must not be an affirmation of the proletariat as proletarian, or the glorification of its wage-labor
