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

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

Swimming Against the Stream (@swimmingagainstthestream)

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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!

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...

Swimming Against the Stream (@swimmingagainstthestream)

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 4h

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.

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...

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

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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

open.substack.com

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

I thank everyone on my profile. The skeptical, the curious, the weary and all comrades who stand against imperialism and capitalism no matter your tendency. I stress internationalism and solidarity more than anything. Thank you! 😊 #Solidarity

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

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.

Swimming Against the Stream (@swimmingagainstthestream)

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...

Swimming Against the Stream (@swimmingagainstthestream)

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 5h

substack.com/profile/3946... #Marxism #Substack

Q:“ How does Marxism look at freedom?” 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 fi...

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 5h

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

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 5h

If Marxists ignored the subjective factor or individual agency; we wouldn't advocate for a revolutionary overthrow of the existing order. But humans have no agency under the trans-historical conditions in which they are born under. Under capitalism genuine free will, or freedom is impossible. 6/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 6h

We far from ignore individual agency. We call this the subjective factor. This is the conscious leadership and organized action that has repeatedly been proven throughout human history to be decisive in the historical process; as well of course over the destiny of your individual life. 5/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 6h

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

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 6h

When the collective will is no longer shackled to a ruling class, a caste, a bureaucracy or other socio-historical constructs of chains that shackle true freedom. As Engels said: “Social forces operate blindly, forcibly, destructively, so long as we do not understand, and reckon with them.” 3/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 6h

For Marxists true freedom is not an abstract, innate attribute but rather a collective achievement intrinsically rooted in the social and material conditions that shape objective lives in reality; when humanity's conscious democratically organized leadership shapes its destiny collectively. 2/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 6h

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

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 10h

The ruling class has smothered the greatest event in human history; the October Revolution, in lies and twisted it in bourgeois distortions. 7/

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

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 10h

The stage was set. The full, detailed Marxist analysis of these rotten foundations is live now on my Substack. This is history as a weapon, not just hoity-toity academic fart sniffing. open.substack.com/pub/swimagai...

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

open.substack.com

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 10h

This fraud didn't solve the land question; it sharpened it into a razor's edge. It created a mass of landless, impoverished semi-proletarians; the future gravediggers of Tsarism and the base for the revolutionary proletariat. 6/ #Communism #AntiImperialism #Substack #RevolutionNow

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ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 10h

As Marxist historian Alan Woods concludes, this "emancipation" was a "collective act of violence against the peasantry in the interests of the development of capitalism in agriculture." The ruling class was "clearing the estates" for capitalism. #Trotskyism #Proletariat #RevolutionaryHistory 5/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 10h

The "free" peasants were tied to the village commune (the mir), which was transformed into the lowest rung of the local police system. They were forced into 49-year redemption payments at 6% interest. This wasn't freedom; it was state-managed debt slavery. #AntiImperialism #Socialism #Marxism 4/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 11h

Then came the "Emancipation" of 1861. Bourgeois historians call it a humanitarian reform. It was a GIANT FRAUD. A preemptive strike by the ruling class to preserve their power. The "free" peasants lost 1/5 to 2/5 of their best land. #History #Tsarism #HistoricalRealism #WorkingClass #Revolution 3/

ameri-commie 🇵🇸 ☭ @satmarxism.bsky.social · 11h

85% were peasants. ~50% were literal serfs. They were property, bought & sold like CATTLE! Owned by 1% of the propertied feudal population. The average noble estate wasn't a small farm; it was a factory for agricultural surplus run on state-enforced terror. #RussianRevolution #ClassStruggle 2/