Some interesting passages from Leipold's Citizen Marx on the origins of republican socialism, which grew out of critiques of the anti-politics of socialists then. We see here the anticipation of what would become the Marxist model for the transition from Capitalism to Communism

Marx, some time before becoming a communist, for the 1st time arriving at the conclusion that the proletariat, "an emergent class that still barely existed" would one day become the class to lead the revolution which would emancipate humanity from domination by private property.

Sylus S. responds to a recent essay on political independence and the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) by Genevieve R.

Antisemitismusbeauftragte sollten jüdisches Leben schützen. Doch in der Praxis sind sie dazu da, öffentliche Kritik an Israel zu unterbinden und unter dem Deckmantel von deutscher Schuld nationale Interessen der Bundesrepublik voranzutreiben.

This page exists to promote the Marxist idea that those who own the properties of a society are the real rulers of that society, and that the only way to achieve both economic and political democracy - true socialist democracy - is to put those things in the hands of the ordinary people. (Thread)

just finished Lyndal Roper’s new book on the German Peasants' War of 1525. It’s brilliant! I was really frustrated, though, by how it ends with an extremely superficial caricature of Marx and Marxism as inherently economistic and promethean. On the very last page Roper praises “the sheer... 1/6

Im Kampf um eine gesellschaftliche Mehrheit ist die parlamentarische Arbeit für Sozialisten unverzichtbar. Doch wie der »Papst des Marxismus« schon 1904 schrieb: Parlamentarier dürfen nie von Dienenden zu Herrschenden werden.