Read Franz Fanon's FULL TEXT "Concerning Violence" from his book "THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH" (1961)
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http://www.openanthropology.org/fanonviolence.htm
Never let anyone make you feel like a monster or a villain or "just like the [INSERT BAD PEOPLE]" for recognizing the necessity of violence in defeating oppression. It's the pacifists who are the real monsters and villains, or at least their collaborators.#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #racism #antiracism #colonialism #anticolonialism #pacifism #pacifist
"Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect." – Franz Fanon (1925 -1961), From "THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH" (1961)
Historical Materialism
Chapter 3 of Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (BEST CHAPTER; MUST READ!)
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm
"The State was the official representative of society as a whole; the gathering of it together into a visible embodiment. But, it was this only in so far as it was the State of that class which itself represented, for the time being, society as a whole:
in ancient times, the State of slaveowning citizens;
in the Middle Ages, the feudal lords;
in our own times, the bourgeoisie."
–Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
"The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production into State property. But, in doing this, it abolishes itself as proletariat, abolishes all class distinction and class antagonisms, abolishes also the State as State." – Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
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"The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure" – Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
"Dialectics"
Chapter 2 of Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm
"Achievements and Difficulties of the Soviet Government"[excerpt] (1919) by Vladimir Lenin. Audiobook.
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #leninism #marxismleninism
https://youtu.be/SS9WyXEUhoQ
"The Development of Utopian Socialism," Chapter 1 of Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm
"History (the role of Religion) in the English middle-class," a 1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Frederick Engels, written in London, April 20, 1892
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-hist.htm
A very important discussion by Engels about materialism:
1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
[General Introduction and the History of Materialism]
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm
Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nihilism #anarchism #communism #chernyshevsky #russia #novel #fiction #Revolutionary #commune #socialism #books #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon
How shocking is it really when the ruling classes rule over the institutions they control? White shoe law firms and ivy league schools depend on money, big money, in order to operate. The individuals in question may be republicans or democrats but at the end of the day money is the determining factor in how they make decisions. It is time to end the naivete about the elites who run universities and powerful law firms.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/trump-exposes-elite-classes
The complete audiobook of Moissaye J. Olgin's "Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in Disguise" (1935)
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #leninism #marxismleninism
https://youtu.be/4KujovKnTek
