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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/swimagai... THE GLORIOUS OCTOBER REVOLUTION: Part 1 is LIVE.
They tell you 1917 was a coup.
They're lying. It was a NECESSITY. You cant understand 1917 without understanding the prison it escaped.
Tsarist Russia wasn't just backward. It was a continent-sized feudal plantation.

the Glorious October Revolution: Part 1 "The Rotten Foundation of Tsarism and Serfdom"

They called it an empire. It was a plantation. The story of how Tsarism's brutal backwardness forged its own gravediggers.

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 4m

This is the inevitable, real-world result of the philosophical idealism I was describing. Plato's perfect state requires the complete subjugation of the individual and material reality to an abstract ideal.

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 1h

My cats loaf is ultimate. #cat #catdad

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

They cant comprehend that a people can hold contradictory ideas; some reactionary, others revolutionary; because their consciousness is forged in the life or death struggle against Empire. The demand for purity from those under bombs is just complicity with Empire. 6/6 #FreePalestine #Gaza #FreeGaza

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

The Ethan Kleins of the world and other reactionaries who use this argument reveal their petty-bourgeois consciousness. They judge the anti-imperialist struggle of the oppressed through the lens of identity politics. 5/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

Their survival teaches them the primary enemy is empire, a truth petty bourgeois Western liberals, insulated by privilege refuse to understand or study. Your moralizing is a weapon of the oppressor. 4/ #Imperialism #Socialism #Marxism

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

Ethan Klein types decry homophobia in Iran/Palestine while ignoring the material reality that imperialism fosters reaction! The masses under siege develop an uneven consciousness; socially conservative yet militantly anti-imperialist. Rich liberals get militant over words, let alone bombs. 3/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

Their "progressive" politics are bankrolled by the very imperialism they refuse to condemn. A Palestinian under the bomb has a more advanced understanding of the global class enemy than any podcasting liberal can hope to understand. 2/ #Marxism

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2h

Petty bourgeois libs like Ethan Klein can't grasp the uneven development of consciousness. They use homophobia in oppressed nations as a cudgel to dismiss anti-imperialism, blind to their own privilege. 1/ #Antiimperialism

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 3h

Every “great” Empire in history was the principal master of oppression. The British Empire once occupied America’s seat, and they committed crimes against humanity regularly. the American Empire has taken up that mantle proudly 2/2

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 3h

The American Empire is the most reactionary, most destructive imperialist force on this planet. The bourgeoisie who dictates over it are an ensemble of the worst most evil people on the planet. The logic of hegemony. #FuckTrump #TrumpisaDisgrace 1/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 3h

substack.com/profile/3946... #Anticapitalism #GazaGenocide #Imperialism #Monopolies #Antifa A study looked at over 37 million companies all over the world. They discovered that 147 of these companies control 40 percent of the total wealth on the planet. This is the logic of capitalism.

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This study looked at over 37 million companies all over the world. They discovered that 147 of these companies control 40 percent of the total wealth on the planet. They found that 737 companies contr...

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 3h

This is from The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods. I'd heavily recommend it to anyone interested in exploring this more. 4/4

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 4h

Plato's theory of Forms holds that truth exists beyond material conditions, implying a realm of pure, immutable ideas to which the changing world of phenomena is merely a flawed reflection. This is the crux of all idealism; it abstracts the individual from their material and social conditions. 3/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 4h

For us Marxists Platonic idealism, while historically significant, fundamentally misconstrues the nature of truth, knowledge, and social organization, serving ultimately as an ideological framework that justifies social hierarchy and intellectual elitism. 2/ #Marxism #Materialism #Idealism 2/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 4h

Platoism posits a realm of perfect, eternal, and unchanging truths that exist independently of the material world. This idealism profoundly shapes his political philosophy, particularly in The Republic, where he envisions a just society ruled by "philosopher-kings". #Philosophy #Plato 1/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 4h

Will Donald J Trump ever be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?: marxist.com/will-donald-... #antitrump #dumptrump #trumpsucks #resist

Will Donald J Trump ever be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

“When the leaders speak of peace, the common people know that war is coming.” (Berthold Brecht)

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 19h

Judeo-Christianity for example implies that ultimate liberation are fundamentally eschatological events reliant on divine exodus; rather than purely human material continual transformation. 8/ #Atheism #Materialism

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 19h

The worker is forced by economic necessity to sell their labor-power, becoming a commodity; like anything else sold on the supposed “free market”. Society is governed by the anarchy of production, where the product governs the creators. 7/ #ClassStruggle #WorkingClass

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 19h

Bourgeois consciousness paints human nature in many different colors but one that is blatantly ignored is humanities trans-historical ability to transform the world through our conscious collective labor. 4/ #Socialism #Theory #Philosophy

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 19h

Q: "How does Marxism look at freedom?” A: We do not see free will as a static, pre-existing condition but instead a dynamic everchanging socio-historical construct. Real human freedom is when we can finally depart from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom. 1/ #Marxism #Communism

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 3d

substack.com/profile/3946... Marxism is a materialist science. Darwin introduced a scientific and dialectical view of nature, which is why reactionaries to this day still detest Darwin and his theory of evolution. Marx did the same for human society. #Philosophy #Marxism #Evolution #Darwin

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“The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all ...

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 2d

States are not living beings with rights. They are transient, malleable coercive instruments of class rule. The "right to exist" they defend is the right of the Israeli bourgeoisie to perpetuate the Nakba in perpetuity. 2/ #Nakba #FreePalestine

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 1d

substack.com/@swimmingaga... #Gaza #Palestine #Ceasefire #GazaCeasefire #Socialism #FromTheRiverToTheSea THE MASS MURDERERS "CEASEFIRE"! THEY TURNED GAZA INTO A PILE OF CEMETERIES! NOW THEY INTEND TO TURN IT INTO A PERMANENT REFUGE CAMP!

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Much has changed regarding the concrete material conditions in Gaza since my piece on it a few weeks ago. The butchers and mass murderers offer a "ceasefire". Trump, Blair, and their Arab puppets plan...

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 19h

Marxists reject this. We say that true free will is not a heavenly promise, it is a material, earthly process, realized through collective, conscious human transformation of the world. 9/9 #DialecticalMaterialism #HistoricalMaterialism #RevolutionaryThoughts #Dialectics

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 17h

substack.com/@swimmingaga... #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #Settlercolonialism #Colonialism #Ceasefire #Gaza #Socialism

The Zionist regime has destroyed all of Gaza. They turned it into a WASTELAND and called it peace! This is the barbarism of imperialism of Zionism. Look at it. Socialism or Barbarism.

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