Kaysone Phomvihane: the Life of a Revolutionary 🇱🇦

A brief biography of the leader of the Lao Revolution, Kaysone Phomvihane🧵 Kaysone Phomvihane (ໄກສອນ ພົມວິຫານ) was born Nguyễn Cai Song on 13 December 1920 in the village of Na Seng, Savannakhet province.

Kaysone excelled in his studies in both Lao and French—so much so that in 1934, at age 13, he was sent to Hanoi to continue his studies.

One of Jimmy Carter’s more famous quotes is “We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war”

Carter is often revered by bourgeois media as one of the most peaceful U.S. Presidents, but imperialist violence is more than just bullets 🧵 Under Carter, full diplomatic relations were established between the US and the People’s Republic of China, which required withdrawing recognition of Taiwan as the sole legal government over China in 1979.

What are the four laws of dialectics? Here are some pictures and examples to summarize 🧵 DIALECTICAL MOTION

When we want to study things according to dialectics, we study them in their motion and in their change.

Take, for example, this apple 🍎. It was not always an apple and it will not always be an apple. Instead, we understand the motion of its evolution.

M-C-M': The Rotation of (Industrial) Capital

Capitalist production is inseparably connected with circulation. How do capitalists make money from this process?🧵 Capitalists start with money and buy commodities of certain kinds: means of production and labor-power. The capitalists now have everything they need for production.

This is the first phase in the movement of capital - money capital transformed into productive capital.

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This overhaul brings new titles and improved quality per stage, but the texts aren't the only change - our book covers have a total redesign too! Physical books releasing mid-march!

Our reading list is crafted to guide readers towards a foundational understanding of Marxism-Leninism, covering topics like philosophy, political economy, revolutionary professionalism, and more.

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There is not a single rail connection between Laos and any other country, period. Or at least there wasn’t until 2015. 🚅🧵 On 23 August 1975, the Lao People’s Liberation Army entered the city of Vientiane, capital of the then-Kingdom of Laos. In the months that followed, the last King of Laos would formally abdicate, and the Kingdom would be replaced by the new People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)

The rich, ruling class writes the narratives and teaches people not just what, but also how to think. To uphold ruling class power, they want the masses to think metaphysically🧵 Bourgeois rule is reinforced by implicitly teaching metaphysics to the masses through media, schooling, and so on.

Metaphysics holds that all things are static, isolated, spontaneous, and that only quantity can change while quality is constant.

Markets and Socialist Construction🧵 Markets, in basic terms, are the real-world exchange of goods and services. Many revolutionaries today have been led to believe that this exchange—these markets—are synonymous with Capitalism. This is not the case!

The Secret War: US Terror in Laos 🧵

In late 1964 the United States unleashed hell upon the people of Laos — the most heavily bombed country in human history. “In 1965, the airplanes began to drop bombs on the people. In this picture, people died in the holes. There were many people who couldn’t get out.

All that could be seen were heads, and legs, and hands.

A man who went to dig them out; his child and wife were buried inside.”

What is the Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub? A thread about us and our resources🧵 MLRH is unaffiliated & unassociated with any political party or organization.

Our goal is to help as many comrades as possible establish a foundational understanding of Marxism-Leninism through study groups, daily quotes, publishing & donating books, analysis, and more!

Dogmatism and Revisionism: Remembering Historic Leaders🧵

Marxism-Leninism is often called “a living science.” This necessarily means that it is rigorous and it is empirical; the basis of all modern sciences. From this basic first principle, it becomes abundantly clear that there is no “national science.” There is no form of scientific thought in existence that is relevant to only one single country or geographic area; natural phenomena in the real world do not work that way.

Dialectics and how to practice it🧵 This is an example application of all the dialectic features to an everyday task/event. Dialectics can be confusing initially as Marxists because we are not exposed to these ideas in bourgeois society, so they are often foreign to us.

With the recent ALU victory and the mass movement of other workers in many other companies unionizing or striking across the country, we wrote a brief Marxist-Leninist analysis of unions 🧵 We first need to look at Marx's analysis of commodities from Wage-Labor Capital. Marx writes that labor-power is a commodity that workers are required to sell. They exchange labor-power for wages which they use to obtain means of subsistence (food, shelter, etc.).

Today we're going to do a short thread on China's Great Green Wall, an effort to stop desertification and combat climate change.🧵 Desertification has been a growing issue not just in China, but throughout the world. In China specifically the problem had begun to worsen as the Gobi desert in China began to grow, affecting almost 400 million people.

This is the first of many posts we will be doing to explain the Belt and Road Initiative China is doing!
This will be an overview, future posts will be about specific experiences that countries have had. The Belt and Road Initiative (abbreviated BRI) is a development strategy and framework, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily between China and the rest of Eurasia, although it is open to any country