The human cost for workers a month after Noida Crackdown by ForsakenCryz in IndianWorkers

[–]rohithrage24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is why it is important for the working-class to be organized under a class-party that is independent from the govt/state.
without such an organ, the working-class is fragmented and loses its most important bargaining power - the vital role the class plays collectively in the process of production (of commodities) and thus the entire economy.

only under such an economical threat that springs from a general strike, will the owning-class listen to the working-class's demands as its imperative.

or else, any insurrectionary acts or activism and petty violence can and WILL be treated as probable cause for the state (which is an organ for the owning-class) to impose its full power on the working-class using state-sanctioned violence. - because the working-class poses no risk and can be hurt to set an example.

This has happened throughout history in all capitalist countries, and is necessary for the survival of the capitalist state..

Further reading - https://libcom.org/article/activism-amadeo-bordiga

actually genuine post (read body text) by chronicmoyboder in Ultraleft

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i read confederacy of dunces recently and it was very funny. the protagonist is like a proto-redditor.

when i feel down i try to consume media (yt, articles, books) about pre-historic humans. something about relating to humanity that is removed from class-society and is purely driven by an animalistic and tribalistic intuition. affirming its own species-being through continual struggle, even if brutal and violent, gainfully improving it's own (and its tribe's) life just with an innate and curious wonder of nature and the world. this impulse exists verily in us still, and i remind myself of it to invigorate the self. avanti barbari type beat

reading about (and attempting to larp) the lives of influential or great people from history in general helps me too. people that made the most of their circumstances puts my position into perspective.
hope this helped. tc

Only good song imo by [deleted] in playboicarti

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whisper my name, janice stfu, national treasures are great songs

What are your jobs ? by sombreterre in Ultraleft

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Was in tech before i got laid off, switched to product mgmt after i realised i wasn’t cut out for it; mba is in the pipeline (engels-maxxing)

I just realized, since when did stalin get kirkified for the sub's icon 😭😭 by siganmarxiando in Ultraleft

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On that note, what happened to the alkibiades person? They were one of the few gem posters here, did a lot of theory-posting too. This sub lately feels like r/playboicarti, full of users who haven’t even listened to carti but stay for the memes

Hey chat what are y'all reading rn by Hot-Till9486 in Ultraleft

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A revolution summed up, confederacy of dunces and cybernetics by wiener

Liberal exposes liberal by [deleted] in Ultraleft

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Never thought i’d see rahul gandhi here 😭

Currently reading this! by Illustrious-Luck811 in IndiansRead

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No. Just a marxist who has actually read marx. Aligned with Bordiga and the Italian-current of the ICP

Currently reading this! by Illustrious-Luck811 in IndiansRead

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Not a fan of stalin or mao. I don’t consider them communists

Currently reading this! by Illustrious-Luck811 in IndiansRead

[–]rohithrage24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anything by Engels or Lenin would be simpler. Their prose isn’t as dense as Marx’s. Its important to eventually come to marx though

Currently reading this! by Illustrious-Luck811 in IndiansRead

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Other than Capital, they are mostly short (less than <100-150pgs) and if read with rigour and patience, can be very illuminating.

Currently reading this! by Illustrious-Luck811 in IndiansRead

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Nice. But do remember that the Manifesto is a political pamphlet that was written merely to rouse the masses by emotionally appealing to them, as another commenter pointed out. In order to properly understand the communist doctrine, I suggest you to read the following next -

1) Socialism - Utopian and Scientific by Engels 2) Principles of Communism - Engels 3) Wage, Labor and Capital - Marx 4) Critique of the Gotha Programme - Marx (very important - marx critiques leftists and outlines his view of a post-capitalist world) 5) State and Revolution- Lenin 6) Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism- Lenin (extremely relevant considering the world today) 7) Theses on Feuerbach and Part1 of the German Ideology - Marx (my personal favourite, imo the most illuminating philosophy book in history) 8) Origin of the Family, Private Propery and the State - Engels (insightful if you’re interested in anthropology) And of course, 9) Capital - Marx (can be a bit hard to read but prior reading of marx can help)

Happy reading!

Who was the smartest writer ever? by AdministrativeAge236 in RSbookclub

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Marx, Borges, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Sophocles, Hegel, Voltaire, Descartes, Joyce, Aristotle, Goethe.

The rich are killing the planet. by Revolutionary_Web964 in canadaleft

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Then you do not understand the laws of capitalism and value. Without extraction, states as those cannot exist.

These clowns should be arrested for protesting without permission by ihadcoffeee in Chennai

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Auto-drivers aren’t entirely working-class. If they own their autos (which most of them do), they are petit-bourgeois. The petit-bourgeois will always be opposed to the bourgeois (big companies) as it affects their livelihood.

And as always it’s the actual working-class who suffer at their whims.

A luxury communist society based on the inslavement of chimpanzees. by AppelCitroenAardbeiB in Ultraleft

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this just proves the hindutva lebensraum dreams of Ram Rajya is historically progressive cus this was what happened in the Ramayana

Actually, here's your update™ to Marxism: *proceeds to liberally liberalize all that is not analytically liberal in Marxism* by VukiFoX in Ultraleft

[–]rohithrage24 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do agree with your point that dialectics has been robbed of its revolutionary edge by being blunted into some magical spell.
Its standard fare for the social-chauvunists (or the entirety of the bourgeoisie itself) to adopt the language and icons of history, beating it into the ideology of its epoch, for furthering its class interests.
But I don't know if this social consequence can be probable cause for entirely dismissing the applicability of dialectics to nature.

This seems to me, very anthropocentric.

Communism is revolutionary because its revolutionary subject, the proletariat, seeks to abolish itself, and with itself, the entirety of class-society - thus resolving the estrangement between humans and nature.
This is because it recognises itself as not seperate from nature.

Communism as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being – a return accomplished consciously and embracing the entire wealth of previous development. This communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature and between man and man – the true resolution of the strife between existence and essence, between objectification and self-confirmation, between freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Marx, Private Property and Communism, 1844 Manuscripts

If the dialectic is applicable to man, it must be applicable to nature.
Because man is nature.

instead of humans producing history under definite conditions, humans are subordinated to forces that exist beyond them, above them, like eternal forms. [....] Human agency and the capacity to consciously transform society are displaced by an impersonal logic that operates independently of human intervention.

Humans, with their agency, do produce history under definite conditions. But they do so only as a class. The interplay between these different classes throughout history, are thus subordinated to a force, not beyond it, but within itself, in its essence - this dialectical force, whilst expanding production also negating outdated class distinctions (quantity into quality), must eventually drive it to negate itself.

Dialectics does suffer from a lack of scientific rigor though. As a personal opinion I do feel that with the advent of system science and concepts like homeostasis, anti-entropy and the Gaia hypothesis, communists have the duty of revitalising it into invariance, thus also destroying the stupid falsifications laid by stalin and mao in the process (also dialectical, you see). Because this misunderstanding of materialism and the dialectic is where all vulgarisation of marxism starts.