Category: Political Economy
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What Would Marx Do? Take The Quiz Here!
You may understand Marxist theory all you want, but it won’t serve you unless you’re able to apply it to practice. Here are 12 scenarios where Marxism would be applicable. Select the answer that best reflects what you’ve read so far in theory. If you’re satisfied with your results, great! If you’re not, you might…
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Down With U.S. Imperialism
With a taste of truth, anybody could see why such a reactionary institution as the U.S. government is to be burnt to the ground. As they claim to be promoting democracy, freedom, and human rights, their practical record shows that they’ve been doing anything but that. Instead, they leave a legacy of villages bombed, activists…
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The Problem Ain’t Just “Bad Capitalists”
We frequently hear from capitalists that what problems may arise from their system come from a small clique of “bad capitalists”. The rest of the capitalist class, according to them, we should let off the hook. This is idealistic. The capitalist system itself is the problem. It causes everything that these idealists blame on “bad…
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Why Social Democracy Doesn’t Work
If social democracy ran the way liberals say it does, I wouldn’t see a reason not to adopt it. We’d have no inequality, where everyone could be paid the same and live in a gigantic mansion. People could stop having to worry about big medical bills or those god-awful student loans, obviously, the government takes…
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Let’s Talk About Democracy
One of the explanations the bourgeoisie uses to justify their rule is that capitalism and only only capitalism can provide for a free, democratic society. In the west, many people see communism as inherently authoritarian and undemocratic. This turns out to be quite harmful. Under the banner of false democracy, it is much easier for…
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Is Socialism Really When People Are Paid The Same?
The notion of “absolute equality” is an anti-communist idea that genuine Marxist-Leninist-Maoists must not support. However, reactionaries strawman communists and try to say that communists want everyone to get the same incomes, outcomes, etc. This makes no sense to anyone who actually read communist texts; all Marxist leaders and theoreticians have condemned bourgeois notions of…
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An Introduction To The Labor Theory of Value
Basic Terminology and Theory To understand capitalist society, we must understand its most basic unit, the commodity. Commodities have use value and value; they can also only be obtained by exchange, so if a good can be made by anyone without exchange, it is not a commodity, so it has no real value (regardless of…
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Did Communism Really Kill “100 Million People”?
Whenever the bourgeoisie explains communism, they feel that it is necessary to include absurdly high death tolls for the ideology. The methods they use to get such statistics are strange; they take existing numbers of those executed, inflate them by a factor, add more deaths randomly, include deaths from starvation and other unintentional deaths, include…
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“Capitalism is Meritocratic” is Incorrect
Defenders, or bootlickers, of capitalism claim that in capitalist systems, people can work to achieve their goals. We can “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps,” they say. In contrast, they assume that socialism does not reward merit, equalizing pay, rewards, etc. For this post, we will attack the first of those points, the idea that…
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Against Revisionism, and Against Ultra-Leftism
Adopted from our in-progress book Revisionism Within Marxism-Leninism, there are many revisionist ideologies that do not represent the proletarian line. These ideologies end up helping the restoration of capitalism. Such ideologies include Khrushchevism (including other similar variants, like “Goulash Communism” in Hungary), Dengism, and Titoism. These variants are blatantly rightist in nature, and they reverse…