Communists understand the world through the use of dialectical materialism. But what actually is dialectical materialism, and what makes it a good analytical tool?
We'll look at what dialectics means & what materialism is and how those two help Marxists interpret the world ⬇️⬇️
With origins in numerous ancient societies, dialectical reasoning seeks to find and expose the
contradictions in an argument in order to resolve them. Philosophers focused on the dialectics of opposites; we can't know what evil is without knowing what good is, for example.
Dialectics understands the world to be one undifferentiated whole. This whole is in constant flux, with things coming into being and dying off every day. Everything is one system - we can't understand things on their own. We have to understand the relation of it to the whole.
In the face of fascist attacks on Indigenous Rights, RAS expresses its full solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples targeted by the settler-colonial U.S. empire. The latest assault is led by none other than the Supreme Court.
Learn about the Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta decision🧵⬇️
The Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta decision sets precedent that U.S. states which occupy protected Indigenous lands have the “authority” to violate their sovereignty by prosecuting people who commit crimes in tribal territory.
This is a blatant violation of Indigenous sovereignty.
This Supreme Court decision signals the U.S.’s blatant disregard for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People sovereignty.
In 2007, 144 countries voted in favor of the Declaration and 4 voted against.
We are losing our right to safe abortions. This violent policy was decided on like the flip of a switch. The ruling class imposed their political will over the people and now we suffer.
This is state violence against the people. This ruling class dictatorship must end. Thread⤵️
The overturning of Roe v. Wade leaves abortion rights to a state by state basis. Access to abortions varies in each state, some being more repressive than others. One of the most reactionary examples is Texas, where recently the state has taken multiple violent measures.[1]
2014 – Texas passed House Bill 2 which banned abortions after 20 weeks.
2020 - Governor Abbott deemed abortions an “unessential service” in the midst of a pandemic in which abortion clinics had to temporarily close their doors [2]. Many abortion clinics had to permanently close.
We hear everyday that the U.S. is a shining example of democracy; that it stands for the people. We ask, “Which people?”
The recently leaked court ruling is massively unpopular - only 30% of the country supports it.[1] Rights are for the rulers.
This is ‘bourgeois democracy.’
A country does not exist in a vacuum. It is the product of the classes that make up a society, and the result of the conflicts between those classes.
The U.S. was born out of bourgeois revolution; in 1776, a section of the colonial ruling class rebelled against the British.
The establishment of the U.S. settler state was by and for the ruling class. A state takes on the class character of the class that controls it as a means to maintain power its benefits.
The U.S. ruling class set up a violent, punitive system to secure more land and more profit.
Among socialists, #NATO is often referred to as Nazi Arming and Training Organization. As NATO members give money, weapons, training, covert ground support, and political legitimacy to Ukrainian fascists, it is important to reflect on NATO’s own Nazi history.
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In the wake of World War 2 in 1949, #NATO was founded explicitly as an anti-Communist military alliance. Naturally, their first true allies were the fascists who had just spent the past 6 years doing everything they could to slaughter and destroy the Communists:
the Nazis.
In 1949, few people had more experience leading the charge against the USSR than Nazi commander and Hitler’s own Chief of Staff, Adolf Heusinger.
The same Adolf Heusinger who was later appointed as #NATO's Chairman of Military just a few years after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
#OTD in 1961, the great revolutionary and theorist Frantz Fanon passed away. Born in French-occupied Martinique, Fanon's writings and work would not only impact the Algerian revolution and the entire African revolution, but also revolutionaries the world over.
Even after the imperialists are defeated, many of the wounds they inflicted on our world will still have to be healed. Malcom X once said, "if you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress... (continued below 👇)
If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less healed the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." - Malcolm X