Aimé Cesaire, in Notebooks of a Return to the Native Land writes: “Begin what? The only thing in the world worth beginning: the End of the world, of course.” For revolutionaries and communists, this beginning is an axiom: “The existing world is not necessary”.
China didn’t develop through free markets, it developed through strategic state intervention
The government picked industries, directed credit, protected domestic firms, and managed trade.
That’s the opposite of what the IMF prescribes for Africa.
@quill65@babadookspinoza I mean apart from rejecting the idea that we don't have any choice in the matter, which is silly and idealistic. Like what does that even mean to you? If you're a communist I would look into the theory of social formations bc I think it runs contrary to your opinion.
Lenin on Marx’s inviolability:
‘We do not regard Marx’s theory as some thing completed and inviolable; on the contrary, we are convinced that it has only laid the foundation stone of the science which socialists must develop in all directions if they wish to keep pace with life’
@DecolonialMarx@trini87 On me haha Mass Line more like Massive Welts would be left on yall foreheads if you seriously engaged with the revolutionary strata of the US ahahhaha LA prols forget that you need to know what you're talking about, be professional,and offer the masses something to get shit going
@DecolonialMarx@trini87 Big fax, I know that no real ones been in the "organizing spaces" in my city cuz they are always out of pocket. Asked one dude for friendly fade after he was talking nutty and bro was flabbergasted hahahahaha THESE UPPITY MFS NEED TO BE SANCTIONED HAHAHA
One of the keys to my understanding of US history is keeping in mind that, to paraphrase Lenin, the US is a “prison house of nations”. This is the interpretive key to US history and it has to inform any class-based histories of this country and any histories of North America