Category: Current Events and History
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Women Hold up Half the Sky!
March 8 is International Women’s Day. On this day in 1917, the February Revolution started as female workers protested over the rationing measures that the Russian Empire implemented for World War 1. While that revolution was only a bourgeois-democratic revolution, the proletariat and peasantry were heavily involved in it, and they were able to build…
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“Vuvuzela Stinky, Socialism Bad”
This is one of the funniest one-liners reactionaries use to attack socialism and fool workers into opposing it. People assume that Venezuela was doing really well under “laissez-faire” capitalism and only got bad when “socialists” took power and enacted welfare policies; they say Venezuela turned “socialist” after the “United Socialist Party of Venezuela” took power…
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Socialist China’s Successes
I felt that we had neglected China’s successful application of socialism compared to how much we covered the implementations in the USSR and Albania. That is why we shall make this post. (We will borrow heavily from our almost-done book.) The CPC liberated China from the KMT’s government in 1949, founding the People’s Republic of…
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On Palestine
Adopted from our nearly-finished book, and in memory of Comrade George Habash, who passed away on January 26, 2008 For the uninitiated, Palestine is a region in the Middle East, and Israel is the current state that controls most of this region. Now, Israel claims to be a homeland for all Jews of the world.…
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Comrade Lenin Is With Us Forever!
Vladimir Lenin passed away on January 21, 1924 after being shot in 1918, a series of strokes, the stress he faced from leading the RSFSR and then USSR, and other health issues. The opportunist rat that shot him, Fanny Kaplan, did so because she wanted “multi-party” socialism; this would have weakened the proletarian leadership of…
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In Defense of Socialism in One Country
Excerpts from our in-progress book Socialism in one country is a concept that Joseph Stalin contributed to Marxism-Leninism. Socialism can be constructed in one country, contrary to the idea that the revolution must be spread to the whole world before socialism is actually constructed and its relations of productions are established. While many Marxists believed…
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The People’s (Socialist) Republic of Albania
Partly adapted from our in-progress book Today, January 10th (in CET), is the 77th anniversary of socialist Albania’s founding. The Albanian people struggled during World War 2 against feudalism, bureaucratic-comprador capitalism, and imperialism, in particular the imperialism of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Party of Labor of Albania courageously led the partisans of its…
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Happy CENTENNIAL to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)!
It is extremely strange to go from remembering its passing to celebrating its founding in four days, but that’s alright. What’s really important is that on December 30th, 1922, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR), Transcaucasian SFSR, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR), and Byelorussian SSR joined together to form the Union of…
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On the USSR’s Dissolution
Our view of the USSR’s dissolution is mixed. We see that the USSR by 1991 was not a socialist state, but a capitalist-imperialist superpower with terrible problems in its system. If the country remained socialist, it probably would be around today, but its capitalist restoration weakened its economy by causing shortages, stagnation, and corruption, so…
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Happy 129th Birthday to Chairman Mao Zedong!
Mao was born on December 26th, 1893, in Shaoshan, China. Just as Stalin was an important Marxist who greatly led the people of the USSR, Mao led the millions of Chinese workers and peasants to independence from feudalism, bureaucratic-comprador capitalism, and imperialism. Just like Stalin, Mao had many achievements in his leadership. Mao led the…