Category: Lenin’s Contributions
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The October Revolution: the First Successful Proletarian Revolution
To celebrate the 106th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, we will go over a brief history of the party behind it and how it led the masses in seizing state power. This will be based on our book. Brief History of the Revolution The Bolsheviks were the revolutionary faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labor…
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Happy Birthday to Vladimir Lenin!
Recently passed Lenin’s 153rd birthday. We celebrate Lenin as a very important theorist and practitioner of Marxism in his time; like we said before, his theory transformed Marxism into Marxism-Leninism, and his practice created the first workers’ state, caused fear and terror for the world’s ruling classes, and inspired tens of millions of workers and…
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The State is not the Main Issue
Anarchists of all stripes, both capitalist and “communist”, claim that the state needs to be abolished. The capitalist ones assume that capitalism means “less government” while the “communist” ones claim that abolishing the state must happen right when the proletariat revolts against the capitalist system. Both of these are incorrect conceptions of the state, class…
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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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Some Notes On Democratic Centralism
By Omar Elsayed Democracy has accompanied socialism throughout it’s history as democratic centralism. As Stalin That all directing bodies of the Party, from top to bottom, shall be elected. That Party bodies shall give periodical accounts of their activities to their respective Party organizations. That there shall be strict Party discipline and the subordination of…
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On the October Revolution
Today, in the former USSR, it is November 7th, the day of the Bolshevik Revolution. 105 years ago, the workers of Petrograd, led by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party, seized political power, overthrowing the bourgeois Russian Republic and giving all power to the Soviets. The revolution itself was quick and fairly bloodless, but the…
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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…
Maoism For The Masses 