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Sep 16, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Facts versus Myths: Soviet edition🚩
Facts versus Myths: "Who invaded USSR?" edition
Facts versus Myths: "Socialism in one country" edition
Facts versus Myths: "Holodomor" edition
Facts versus myths: 1939 edition
Facts versus Myths: "Poles are reactionary" edition
Facts versus Myths: GULAG edition
Facts versus Myths: "Old bolsheviks" edition
Facts versus Myths: "Commodities are capitalist" edition
Facts versus Myths: 1939 edition with lil extension babble.

stuff can probably be improved a lot, but its noteworthy that not a single myth by now could be debunked with an even shorter fact formulation😅

so the VILNIUS > LITHUANIA issue is just another aspect of the 1939 issue
MYTH: myths can be debunked with facts

FACT: facts alone wont debunk myths 😅

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Oct 1
Under capitalism, labourers are not paid according to their contribution to social production but according to the reproduction costs of the one commodity they have to sell: labour-power.

To think otherwise betrays a liberal misunderstanding of Marx's theory of *surplus*-value.
The comrades who yawn at the fact that in the socialized soviet industries, labour was compensated according to contribution to the social working day and *not* according to reproduction costs of labour-power, seem to think that capitalism is when workers get paid for their work.
These comrades totally collapse Marx's main point that capitalists compensate labourers exactly NOT "according to work done", NOT in correspondence to the product of their labour

but "according to the costs of labour-power" = products necessary for the reproduction of labourers.
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Apr 17
@Tigger0000 @bartok_mlm @jfcoliveira261 @ianpaulwright 😅this would be embarrassing even if i had to teach much here.

also a lot on the concept table, i can merely put out some opinion based on pedantic sticking / referring to Marx's theory at this point --

to begin with, Marx does not call value "intrinsic value" for good reasons.
@Tigger0000 @bartok_mlm @jfcoliveira261 @ianpaulwright It is not a minor correction to John Lockes "intrinsic value" being subjectivist and arbitrary crap through and through, and we don't just add a bit of objective determinate moment of SNLT-determination to the issue of value to now arrive at a "more objective" "intrinsic value".
@Tigger0000 @bartok_mlm @jfcoliveira261 @ianpaulwright Only SNLT "measured" (actually: deciphered!) in an environment of commodity producers = exchangability of products among different proprietors, attains the quality of value. otherwise value would be *identified* ≡ SNLT, and contradictions value<>SNLT would be ideally liquidated.
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Apr 8
Reminder that the famous author of a book called »How to Read Marx's Capital«, Michael Heinrich, publicly falsified the first *paragraph* of Marx's »Capital« in order to slander Engels and to promote Heinrichs very own private anti-Engels *and* anti-Marx »interpretation« of Marx: Image
Some guy who does not *prohibit* being praised as "the world's leading scholar on Marx" in advertisements for his books should not be taken seriously anyway - but there are certain strange remnants of theoretical credibility surrounding this author.

Michael Heinrich is a fraud. Image
receipt of ad:

receipt of text: libcom.org/library/michae…
marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
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Feb 4
Some comrades claim that Engels wrote in 1847: "Nations won't exist under communism."

These comrades are profoundly mistaken. They should reconsider and read Engels more closely instead vulgarizing live on anglo twitter dot com what Engels actually wrote in 1847: Image
It should be added that the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" from 1848 does not contain anything resembling the static notion of "Nations won't exist under communism" either, talking about a *process* of vanishing of national differences and antagonisms between peoples at most: Image
Only petty-bourgeois radicalist *distortions* and *vulgarizations* of Marxism, of Marx' & Engels' theories & works, entail such clumsy static lines of thought as "Nations won't exist under communism", cutting out the critical sting of Marxism and reducing it to a dogmatic decree.
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Nov 25, 2022
The basic condition for value and commodity production is but one twofold: a) private property of means of production + b) division of labour.

The basic conditions for capitalist production are but these 2 twofold: value (a+b) + "Means-free, deprived, commodified labourer" (c+d)
The capitalist mode of production cannot "exist" without the basic conditions for value (a+b) met.

Commodity production cannot "be" capitalist without the further basic conditions for capitalism (c+d) met.
See ch.6 of Marx' "Capital" vol.1 for "c+d" as the 2nd, further basic twofold condition of capitalist production:

"the free labourer, free in the double sense, …"
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Nov 24, 2022
One consequence of establishing communist society is that social relations come along without money & value which cease to exist✅

But slogans like "abolish money" & "abolish value" are NOT scientific expressions of communism🚫

There petty-bourgeois distortions of Marx begin.🧵
Just like "abolish money", "abolish the state", "free unicorn rides for all🦄" etc,

the slogan "abolish value" one-sidedly isolates a partial consequence (and insufficient sub-determination) of a characteristic of communist society AGAINST the real movement to achieve communism.
It is telling that we find neither the expression "abolish money" nor "abolish value" in the entire works of such conscientious scientific-critical communists as Marx and Engels who provide us such a rich and even bloomy variety of ACCURATE, SCIENTIFIC expressions of communism.
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