The pamphlet »Quite Right, Mr Trotsky! Some Trotsky Myths Debunked; and how Trotskyists today hamper the Fight for Peace and Socialism« written by english communist Denver Walker in 1985 comes with 21 cartoon sketches

all of which are to be documented in this thread😊
🧵🖼️[1/22] [Trotsky[ists] be like]

"Down with the communists and socialists!
Down with the Soviet Union!
Down with the people's front against fascism and war!
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!"

📕 CAPITAL Vol.1, Ch.1, Sec.1: "The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)"

🧵 18 paragraphs as screenshots, accompanied by a dry plain 1-page-ish summary of the section (not exactly aligning with the screens)

[0/18] [¶1] First, Marx announces for chapter 1 to begin with the analysis of the *COMMODITY* because in capitalist societies the commodity appears as the elementary form of wealth.

[1/18]

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.

@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".

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: 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.

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: 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:

70 years ago, on March 5th, communist revolutionary Joseph #Stalin died.

Here are 10 recommended texts by Stalin contributing to the development of #Marxist theory and criticism.

Stalin’s works are concise, and important reading for proletarians and oppressed people worldwide. 1. “Anarchism Or Socialism?”

Written in 1906/1907, Stalin’s work “Anarchism Or Socialism?” is a Marxist critique of anarchism and a response to anarchist criticisms of Marxism. 35 pages.

Text: marxists.org/reference/arch…

Audiobook: youtu.be/5d5IAJE5Zls

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.

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.

🧵 10 nice quotes from Marx' 1859 "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"

1⃣ [Use-value of bread if it rained from sky] 2⃣ [x tins of boot polish = 1 palace]

Marx/Engels Manifesto does NOT demand "Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family!"

just as it does NOT demand idealist crap like "Abolition of Property!"

See the 9 "Bourgeois objections to Communism" in Manifesto + how they get DEBUNKED + replaced with SPECIFIC=MATERIALIST demands 🤩 A close reading of the Manifesto passage "Abolition of the family" clearly shows that Marx/Engels DISCUSS the idealist demand "abolish THE family"

like "WHAT YOU EVEN TALKIN BOUT?😹"

concluding that its the PRESENT family, the BOURGIE family, THIS family FORM which will VANISH

🧵LENIN ON SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY

📚 A collection of 179 Lenin quotes on the possibility of "Socialism in one Country" ("SIOC") and the conditions for its final victory on global scale

179 tweets in chronological order (1915–23)

each with 1 excerpt + date + source🔗+ picture "Uneven economic and political development is an absolute law of capitalism. Hence, the victory of socialism is possible first in several or even in one capitalist country alone."

Lenin 1915

marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

Aah Those Lenin-Trotsky Convos😹

"1. Lenin here."

"2. I should like to consult Stalin before replying to your question."

"3. Stalin has just arrived, I shall discuss it with him, and will shortly let you know our joint reply."

"4. Please inform Trotsky. Return to Petrograd"😹 "Dont make shit up, comrade😡"

"... *** ...🙄 😅😅😅"

volume 26 p427

if capitalism by a chance was an APPLE🍏😋

the dictatorship of the proletariat would be a BLENDER

processing apple to yummy socialist SMOOTHIE to pour into our mouths SOON 🤤

after 1 second the mush in that blender does not resemble an apple anymore.

Its MUSH, NOT CAPITALISM! if capitalism by a chance was an APPLE🍏😋

the dictatorship of the proletariat pretty much CONSISTS OF blades and process of cutting that apple into palatable pieces

to prepare it for our lovely delicious SOCIALIST APPLE PIE🤤🍎🥧🚩

the FIRST CUT being the DEATH of the apple🤩

Facts versus Myths: Soviet edition🚩 Facts versus Myths: "Who invaded USSR?" edition

very annoying are always all those overgeneralising leftists

with their f*ing bullshit rudeness

and blurry pseudo-criticism of authentic leftists

being in fact no leftists at all

but treacherous fascist scoundrels

to be reported to twitter

and extradited to the cops!

🤡 i mean, of course "you" dont need to agree to "me",

its pretty normal in this world to be a fascist.

i mean, look at my tweet. it got round about 7.7 billion NOT-likes (double accounts not even counted in!) so you get a pretty precise idea of how widespread fascism is already😱

"SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY"

was theorised by LENIN in 1915

explicitly and publically

as INTERNATIONALIST STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION based on Marx/Engels theory🤩

and NOT as "nationalist deviation" "invented" by Stalin.

This thread provides some Lenin quotes proving the point. -> 4 links to interesting texts where Lenin EXPLICITLY speaks about the possibility or even unfortunate necessity of victory of SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY:

marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

More to follow later on😊

So

who invented "Socialism in one country" again? Oh bad, almost ONLY WRONG ANSWERS so far?

Dear comrades, i asked in all sincerity!

I would prefer CORRECT answers this one time.

Lets educate ourselves a little on this interesting matter?

😊

1/WHO INVADED USSR IN 1941? A Thread

Silly question: Almost everybody round the world may heard about hitler fascists invasion of USSR.

The "barbarossa" invasion army of german imperialism is considered the largest attack force in world history.

But the germans were NOT alone! 2/

Besides german imperialists eastern armies invading USSR from june 22, 1941 with an estimated staggering 3 million troops,

especially Finland and Romania flanked the german attack: Finland from north with 475.000+, Romania from south with up to 680.000 troops: alone in 1941!