on Lenin's Revisionist Version of
"Dictatorship of the Proletariat"

Exploring State-theory. In Marxist theory, the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" stands as a crucial, albeit contentious, idea.

Friedrich Engels dedicated a whole chapter to critiquing the "radical equality socialism" put forth by Duhring in opposition to Marxist socialism.

Jordan Peterson's statement suggesting that women need to "step it up and start inventing cool things" can be considered problematic and potentially misogynistic because it implies a stereotype that women, as a group, are not already contributing significantly to innovation. Such a generalization overlooks the countless achievements and inventions by women throughout history and reinforces gender-based assumptions about capabilities.

In reality, many women have made groundbreaking contributions to various fields. Some examples include:

Marx and Engels' Critique of Idealism:
Expanding on the Criticism of "Illusions of Philosophy"

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of Marxism, were critical of what they perceived as the undue emphasis on abstract ideas divorced from material reality. 💡 Marx and Engels' theory focused on critiquing intellectuals (ideologists) who produce a form of social analysis (ideology).

Bob Dylan's lyrics have often contained social and political themes that lend themselves to a Marxist analysis. Let's look at some of his old and new lyrics from a Marxist perspective: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1963):
This iconic song speaks to the changing social and political landscape of the 1960s. From a Marxist perspective, it can be seen as a call for societal transformation, where the old order is giving way to new ideas and movements.

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Princeton University study from 2019 by Joel Finkelstein showed that those who began their YouTube commenting history on Peterson’s channel migrated twice as fast to alt-right content compared to those who had not started there. njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/princeton-scie…

Moreover, Peterson was favorably referenced in altright and white supremacy social media postings in relation to "their most heinous misogynist and white supremacist ideas."

@ClarkeMicah

The struggle for socialism is not an ethical imperative based on some lofty or liberal notions from a university. It is found embedded within the experiences of the oppressed and exploited

https://twitter.com/BypassMirkwood/status/1636408133961777153

(recall as Marx noted the seeds of destruction, the end of capitalism, lie within the very internal contradictions it cultivates). Their intimate understanding of their own social circumstances including the alienation which is pervasive in every engagement.

Why Capitalism doesn't create individual freedom: Why doesn't create individual freedom:

Not everyone even “can” acquire private property no matter the hypothetical used when comparing it to the actual functioning of capitalism. Capitalism (and to a greater extent even, Imperialism) is built upon the social division of labor

@ClarkeMicah pbs.org/newshour/show/… The Vatican supported Hitler because he was anti-communist

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Franz Neumann described the economy of the Third Reich as "totalitarian monopolistic capitalism"

Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism Economy And Class Structure Of German Fascism
by Alfred Sohn-Rethel

"In the early 1930s Alfred Sohn-Rethel worked as editorial assistant at the Fuhrerbriefe, a current affairs newsletter circulated exclusively among the upper echelons of German big business; [cont-]

It’s laughable to conclude that a system of decision making where those with more wealth have more influence could be anything but a functional tyranny.

https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1635976235485372417

Liberal democracy is only democracy for property owners, and you should know that, if you've had a "revolutionary teaching" as you claimed in a tweet not too long ago....

CHATGPT ON Marxist Terms:

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

Dialectical materialism is a philosophical approach to understanding reality and history that was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is based on the idea that material conditions, such as the economy and technology, shape society and human history.

Marx/Engels on property-relations under capitalism, in The Communist Manifesto. "How many times have you heard the claim that socialism sounds good in theory, or that socialists are just lazy, or that socialists want to take your stuff?"

Do Socialists Just Want To Take Your Stuff?

by @_SecondThought

Economics Manuscripts: Capital vol. 1
by Karl Marx

"SECTION 1
THE TWO FACTORS OF A COMMODITY:
USE-VALUE AND VALUE"
[...]
"A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another."

"Trades Unions"
by Friedrich Engels

Reproduced from the newspaper; the Labour Standard
Written: May 20, 1881;
Published: No. 4, May 28, 1881.
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In our last issue we considered the action of Trades Unions as far as they enforce the economical law of wages against employers. We return to this subject, as it is of the highest importance that the working classes generally should thoroughly understand it.

Marx believes that this resolution was not adopted by the Basle Congress; after checking he acknowledges that a resolution in this sense was passed.

That was a pious wish, he himself at that time held that the thing was possible; now he is convinced that the trade unions would never agree to such a federation.

The trade unions, he said, are an aristocratic minority. The poorer workers could not join them: the great mass of workers, driven daily by economic developments from the villages into the cities

Marx from interview with New York World, July 18, 1871:

"It is necessary that our aims should be thus comprehensive to include every form of working-class activity." "To have made them of a special character would have been to adapt them to the needs of one section — one nation of workmen alone. But how could all men be asked to unite to further the objects of a few?"

Engels to Cafiero

July 16, 1871
The trade-union movement, among all the big, strong and rich trade unions, has become more an obstacle to the general movement than an instrument of its progress; and outside of the trade unions there are an immense mass of workers in London who have kept quite a distance away from the political movement for several years, and as a result are very ignorant.

Productive and Unproductive Labour Here we should like briefly to anticipate our results, before we consider any further the changed shape of capital which emerges as a result of the capitalist mode of production.

Trades’ unions. Their past, present and future (a) Their past.

Capital is concentrated social force, while the workman has only to dispose of his working force.

Some time ago the London journeymen tailors formed a general association 120 to uphold their demands against the London master tailors, who are mostly big capitalists. It was a question not only of bringing wages into line with the increased prices of means of subsistence, but also of putting an end to the exceedingly harsh treatment of the workers in this branch of industry.