The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (DotP) is one of the fundamental concepts in Marxism. It doesn’t describe the dictatorship of a single person or a small group, but rather the dictatorship of a whole class over the rest of society….
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“Emphasis on public participation by Cubans is focused not only on periodic voting but also on continuous participation in governing.” MarkH. Kruger (2007) Community Based Crime Control in Cuba Countries like the US and UK treat crime as if it’s…
Dialectical Materialism is the philosophical framework with which Marxists analyse the world. Historical Materialism is the application of Dialectical Materialism to history. Videos About Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism Channel: Politics in Command Idealism vs Materialism https://youtu.be/tKFLBjfAhsY Metaphysics vs Dialectics…
It’s easy to get lost in efforts to convert your country to Socialism, and that is the most useful place to apply most of our efforts. However, it’s worth asking now how we’ll protect Socialism once we manage to achieve…
A common talking point amongst apologists for Capitalism is that wage labor isn’t exploitative because people enter into it voluntarily. But this simplistic explanation hides some very interesting points about the true nature of the relationship between owner and worker….
The following is an extract from a manual issued by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS,) a predecessor to the CIA, giving advice designed to help imperialist agents sabotage the states of Axis powers and their collaborators. This is provided…
While it’s common for people to use the words state and government interchangeably, Marxists view the two terms as having very different meanings. What’s the difference between the state and the government? To Marxists, the state consists of all the…
For those new to Socialism, the task of removing Capitalism can seem daunting to the point of being impossible. What can an individual do to bring down Capitalism? How can Socialists, a group of ordinary citizens, take control of the…
A common refrain from baby leftists is that we need to unify the left. They look around at the fragmented factions of Democratic Socialists, Anarchists, Marxist-Leninists (MLs), and Marxist-Leninist-Maoists (MLMs), and declare that we should create a single, gigantic leftist…
When you talk to people about socialism, one of the first arguments doubters trot out is that communism could never work, because people are too lazy and greedy to behave altruistically. According to the doubters, people won’t bother to work…