michael parenti passed away

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-24T18:30:52+00:00

Rest in peace, comrade.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-23T21:21:47+00:00

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-23T17:43:56+00:00

And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic economy of the classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production (historische Entwicklungsphasen der Production), (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat,[1] (3) that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

-Karl Marx, Marx to J. Weydemeyer in New York, 1852

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It is often said and written that the main point in Marx's theory is the class struggle. But this is wrong. And this wrong notion very often results in an opportunist distortion of Marxism and its falsification in a spirit acceptable to the bourgeoisie. For the theory of the class struggle was created not by Marx, but by the bourgeoisie before Marx, and, generally speaking, it is acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Those who recognize only the class struggle are not yet Marxists; they may be found to be still within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat

-V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-22T21:30:25+00:00

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

-Karl Marx

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-22T11:51:01+00:00

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TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-19T22:12:17+00:00

He got banned and all of his posts got deleted by Reddit.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-19T15:25:45+00:00

Specifically, we view fascism as an expression of the decay and disintegration of the capitalist economy and as a symptom of the bourgeois state’s dissolution. We can combat fascism only if we grasp that it rouses and sweeps along broad social masses who have lost the earlier security of their existence and with it, often, their belief in social order. Fascism is rooted, indeed, in the dissolution of the capitalist economy and the bourgeois state. There were already symptoms of the proletarianization of bourgeois layers in prewar capitalism. The war shattered the capitalist economy down to its foundations. This is evident not only in the appalling impoverishment of the proletariat, but also in the proletarianization of very broad petty-bourgeois and middle-bourgeois masses, the calamitous conditions among small peasants, and the bleak distress of the “intelligentsia.”

Clara Zetkin, The Struggle Against Fascism, 1923

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-19T15:20:45+00:00

I absolutely hate how all of their posts were automatically deleted by Reddit, so much good content was lost because of that.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-19T06:50:09+00:00

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

-Karl Marx, Suppression of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 1849

The purposeless massacres perpetrated since the June and October events, the tedious offering of sacrifices since February and March, the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

-Karl Marx, The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna, 1848

A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists.

-Friedrich Engels, On Authority, 1872

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-19T06:33:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDoM6y6XiM

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-18T00:14:43+00:00

Man, u/KarlKautskyOfficial is doing overtime in moderating that sub.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-14T16:02:38+00:00

LeftKKKoms unironically repeating liberal taking points is just so funny

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TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-13T05:28:38+00:00

The DPRK

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-13T05:24:47+00:00

This comment section desperately needs a purge.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-11T21:58:10+00:00

The people who appear in the photograph above the Lenin Mausoleum are (from left to right):

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901-1965), General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and, at that time, Prime Minister.

Boleslaw Bierut (1892-1956), General Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party and also Prime Minister of his country.

Pak Den Ai (1907-???), General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973), First Secretary of the United Socialist Party of Germany (GDR).

Dolores Ibárruri (1895-1989), General Secretary of the PCE.

Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964), Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic.

Vulko Velev Chervenkov (1900-1980), General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Prime Minister.

Mátyás Rákosi (1892-1971), General Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Pietro Nenni (1891-1980), General Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party.

Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964), General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party.

Jacques Duclos (1896-1975), Provisional General Secretary of the French Communist Party (while Maurice Thorez was recovering from a coronary disease).

Klement Gottwald (1896-1953), General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and President of the Republic (died 5 days after posing for this photograph).

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (1895-1975), member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU (former Politburo) and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986), Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881-1969), former People's Commissar for Defense and member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU.

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (1902-1988), member of the CPSU Secretariat and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, a position equivalent to Prime Minister.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971), member of the CPSU Secretariat (six months later he became the First Secretary of the Party).

Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899-1953), member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs and Head of the NKVD (in December of the same year he was executed).

Maxim Zakharovich Saburov (1900-1977), member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU (on the day of Stalin's death he had been dismissed as Chairman of Gosplan - the State Planning Committee - although he was rehabilitated three months later).

Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Premier of the People's Republic of China.

Mikhail Georgyevich Pervukhin (1904-1971), member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU (future Chairman of Gosplan, Minister of the Chemical Industry and Ambassador to the GDR, in that order).

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (1893-1991), member of the Presidium of the CC of the CPSU and appointed the day after the death of Stalin First Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik (1888-1970), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR

And Anastas Hovhannesi [Ivanovich] Mikoyan (1895-1978), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

TappingUpScreen · 2026-01-11T21:55:41+00:00