Errico Malatesta issue on Anarchy provides a good point to understand the concepts, concerns, and critiques.
He was an Italian anarchist that personally met Bakunin and Kropotkin. He was also persecuted during Fascist Italy.
He had his own ideologically inclusive form of libertarian communism (see 2/3), and believed in a labour movement that brought together disparate groups in order to form stronger unions (see 3/3)
Here's a challenge. Talk to at least one different person IRL a week about socialism or communism. It can be about anything. Working class struggles, free healthcare/education, revolution, anything. We can no longer relegate our activity solely to the internet. As useful as the internet is, real change can only be made by going outside and interacting with people in real life. Go! Change the world! #communism#socialism
Our comrade #FionaLali just launched a campaign for the coming #ukelection as MP for Stratford and Bow.
As communists we should have no illusions that the problems of the working class can be resolved by parliamentary means. This campaign will be used at every turn to expose the #tory and #labourparty alike as war criminals complicit in British #imperialism.
For healthcare, not warfare!
For books, not bombs!
Kick out the war criminals!
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Alternative history. If the US had just given up at this point of war, all of (united) Korea would probably be in the same stage as Vietnam today. That is: just fine.
But they went on for 3 years. Killing 2-3 million Koreans to save them from communism.
Then they killed 1-3 million Vietnamese to try to save them from #communism and lost.
Seriously, let's say the #ww3 the US/EU/NATO/ISRAEL/UKRAINE have been provoking to start eventually starts and you are stuck in a country that you feel is in the wrong side of the war-front?
What do you do?
Engage in guerrilla warfare against the people around you who blindly conform to their state? Become vocal and suicidal as a peace activist? Run away to a strange country on the other side of the war front?
From my Cold War primary source shelves: J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit (1958) replete with high school student scholarship contest! #history#ColdWar#books#America#Communism
Jonathan Chait is real mad that leftists aren't taking liberal shit anymore. I got the link from archive.is to avoid giving his BS any extra clicks. It's way longer than it needs to be. This paragraph caught my attention though because it's at least an attempt at clarifying what liberals see as leftism and why they're wrong (which is why they should shut the fuck up, because they have been proven so very fucking wrong, so often, and for so long):
I don’t want to bore you...
lol
by attempting the umpteenth definition of liberalism,
Funny how liberals hate defining liberalism
so I will lay out the distinction as briefly as possible. On economic questions, leftists have an overwhelming bias for state action over markets, while liberals are more selective.
This is incorrect. Leftists differ radically on how much state action over markets is needed. What unites leftists is the belief that we need democracy in economic realms as well as political ones. (I personally don't accept fully authoritarian MLs as leftists, one can debate that, but that's where I stand.) Liberals think it's just fine for us to have democratic politics but for most people to work for institutions that are run as dictatorships.
...On politics, liberals take very seriously notions of individual rights and universally applicable principles, while leftists tend to criticize political liberalism as a recipe for maintaining inequalities of power between the privileged and the oppressed.
Sort of true, but Chait tellingly leaves out the substance of the leftist critique, the reason why they think that political liberalism is a recipe for maintaining inequality, to wit: the lack of democracy in most people's workplaces. If economic power is concentrated while political power is distributed, then inevitably political power will become concentrated as well. Because money is power.
Anyway, Chait hates "Solidarity" the book and he also hates solidarity the concept. Of course he gets paid to represent left-of-center thought at major USA publications. Feel free to discuss your disgust for this type of guy further in replies.
No corporation or private entity should be allowed to own land (property). Land should belong only to those who live and work there.
Discuss... #Capitalism#Socialism#Communism#Auspol
Today is 87 years since Antonio Gramsci died at the hands of the Italian Fascists.
Gramsci, a founder and leader of the Italian Communist Party, was imprisoned by Mussolini’s regime in 1926. During his imprisonment he wrote extensively about history, politics and society.
His work on the role of culture, ideology, and the consent rulers obtain from those they rule has been influential in understanding how groups gain and maintain power.
"It is certain that the coming Revolution — like in that respect to the Revolution of 1848 — will burst upon us in the middle of a great industrial crisis. Things have been seething for half a century now, and can only go from bad to worse. Everything tends that way — new nations entering the, lists of international trade and fighting for possession of the world’s markets, wars, taxes ever increasing."
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism#socialism#anarchism#libertarianism
"Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor."
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism#socialism#anarchism#libertarianism
"But a free society, regaining possession of the common inheritance, must seek, in free groups and free federations of groups, a new organization, in harmony with the new economic phase of history."
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread #communism#socialism#anarchism#libertarianism