Karl Marx suffered from a debilitating skin disease. Poor people had limited medical care and child mortality was high. So yeah he had a problem with the exploitative system that kept people poor, sick, and killed his children.
Germany was liberated by an international coalition united in solidarity against nazism.
East Germany repaid this debt by helping other peoples fight against their oppression: DPRK, Vietnam, Palestine.
West Germany armed the oppressors instead: The US, Israel, Saudi Arabia.
The problem isn’t that the state is everywhere. The problem is that capital seeks to turn everything into a commodity. Without public ownership and regulation, the market doesn’t stop at luxury goods; it reaches water, healthcare, housing, education, and every necessity of life, turning human needs into profit opportunities.
June 3, 1963.
Renowned Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet died in exile in Moscow. Stripped of his citizenship by the Turkish government and driven from his homeland for his communist convictions, he spent his final years abroad, but never left the hearts of millions.
His verses still belong to all who dream of freedom, justice, and a better world.
You're a worker. You don't have to agree with every decision of the communist movement or of the socialist states throughout history, but to disavow them in their entirety means you disavow your own right to imperfectly fight for liberation. This is your history, too.
Quand t'entends l'humanité des discours des communistes du 20eme siècle, tu comprends pourquoi les capitalistes ont eu besoin de les repeindre en dictateurs sanguinaires pour les discréditer.
The Israel Lobby has adapted and refined their approach.
The NewDem Action Fund accepts Israel lobby dark money from the Pro-Israel Network via Democracy Engine (payment processor) and then distributes to 115 members so FEC does not label it Israel lobby money.
Stay vigilant.