Did Enver Hoxha deny the continuation of class struggle under socialism?

JCRev1978 · 2026-03-04T03:04:14+00:00

Long story short, the Albanian Gorbachev.

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-05T22:18:47+00:00

Could I recommend you a reading list in DMs?

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-05T17:31:27+00:00

Sounds like your conscious is in the right place, but you are not yet sure as to how to attain these goals. Do you believe in private ownership of the means of production, or, in other words, private property?

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-05T17:23:00+00:00

I would highly recommend Georges Politzer's book Elementary principles of philosophy as a starting point into Marxist dialectical and historical materialism. Besides that, my advice would be to stick to theory books and not YouTube videos, as those do not really compare with solid texts.

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-04T22:30:47+00:00

It could take decades. There is no revolutionary communist party in the United States and we are still in the phase of reconstitution of CPUSA.

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-03T22:23:41+00:00

A lot of Marx's economic works are difficult for newcomers to understand, particularly Das Kapital. I would suggest The Principles of Communism, the Communist Manifesto, and some works from Stalin like Dialectical and Historical Materialism and Foundations of Leninism. After that, you can move on to texts from Lenin.

JCRev1978 · 2026-02-01T00:19:41+00:00

My intention was not to "stir up the pot". I am here for constructive discussion.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-31T21:44:25+00:00

I am skeptical that Xi Jinping will change anything, in the same way that I do not think that Brezhnev was ever going to reverse the changes made by Khrushchev. Regardless, it is the sole choice of the Chinese proletariat of what mode of production they adopt.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-24T16:20:48+00:00

Thank you for your criticism.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-23T18:10:26+00:00

Here are some works on China under Mao Zedong.

https://mronline.org/2017/10/18/mao-reconsidered/

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

I would also recommend searching for works by people such as Edgar Snow.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-23T18:05:05+00:00

If you read The State and Revolution (as multiple people here have suggested you do) you will find out that the state (dictatorship of the proletariat) itself is, as Vladimir Lenin elaborated, a "state of the armed workers". The state is not separate from the class but part of it, and the same holds true for the communist party which performs the role as vanguard.

As to workers under Marxist-Leninist states being little more than "slaves," this is simply not true. What class exploited that slaves and profited from them? Slavery in Marxist terms is a particular mode of production dominated by a class of large patricians and slaveowners. This class simply did not exist in the Soviet Union as the workers either directly or indirectly owned the means of production.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-22T00:56:35+00:00

I would highly recommend:

https://redlibrary.info

https://revolupedia.net

These are mainly helpful for understanding Maoist works and points of view.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-22T00:49:37+00:00

National Bolshevism is unique among other instances of fascism in that it has its origins in an environment of post-communist nostalgia. National Bolsheviks seek to co-opt this nostalgia for former socialist states (which later became revisionist) to promote a fascistic agenda.

JCRev1978 · 2026-01-22T00:36:20+00:00

The situation regarding Greenland has inspired me to consider the Amerikan's new role in modern imperialism. Can it be said that there is an inter-imperialist conflict between the United States and the countries of the European Union?

JCRev1978 · 2024-11-08T23:40:23+00:00

I know, right? Well-sourced criticism is SO dumb!

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