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#karlmarx

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Paria sans portefeuille

"#Marx participated in the #1848revolutions in Prussia [...] Those #revolutions failed [...] Marx and many [exiles] ended up in London, but many of them ended up in the United States and they become known as the #48ers [...] they joined the Republican Party, they joined the #abolitionistMovement..."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #AndrewHartman, author of #KarlMarxInAmerica

kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-p

#UShistory #USCivilWar #abolitionism #KarlMarx #AmericanMarxism #books @bookstodon @histodons

KPFAKarl Marx's Influence in the US | KPFAGuest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and his latest, Karl Marx in America.  
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Gebrauchskunst

Entstehung des Kapitalismus: THERE WILL BE BLOOD - Kritik & Analyse

youtube.com/watch?v=VcLNpyIASf

> Paul Thomas Anderson hat in diversen Interviews beteuert,
dass sein großartiger Film „There Will Be Blood“ keine Geschichte über den #Kapitalismus sei, statt...

#ThereWillBeBlood
#EntstehungdesKapitalismus
#Imperialismus #das24.Kapitel #dasKapital #KarlMarx #MarxEngels #Bauer #SubsistenzLandwirtschaft #Land #Arbeiter #Wirtschaft #Produktionsmittel #Besitz #Wohlstand #Bürger #Familie #Familienwerte #Arbeitskraft #Geld #Emanzipation #Ausbeutung #Vernichtung #Individuum
#Glaube #Kirche #Sekte #Religion #MaxWeber #HannaArend #rosalux #luxemburg #Rosaluxemburg #Landnahme #Seele #Herrschaftsreligion #Unternehmer #Sucht #Monopol #Produkt #Produktion #Markt #Digital #Digitalkonzerne #SchauennichtSehen #Akkumulation #Missbrauch #Einsamkeit #Vereinsamt #Alkohol #Entsozialisierung #Vereinzelung #Raubbau #Natur #RaubbauanderNatur
#BlutundFeuer

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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴

To end off this thread here on Mastodon, I want to affirm that I firmly stand by the anarchist and syndicalist traditions that have inspired me throughout my journey. These traditions emphasize freedom, direct democracy, and the self-management of workers without reliance on centralized authority. Rudolf Rocker’s ideas continue to guide my commitment to a society based on voluntary cooperation and the abolition of all hierarchical power structures.

I believe that state socialism has no place on earth—neither now nor ever. History has shown that concentrating power in the hands of the state leads to repression and the replacement of one form of domination with another. True liberation requires dismantling the state and building communities rooted in solidarity and mutual aid. This is a path I will continue to support and work toward, without compromise.

#Communism#KarlMarx#Marxism
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴

I want to be real and honest about something important to me as an anarcho-syndicalist: the anarcho-syndicalist revolution in Spain during the Civil War was much closer to real communism than the so-called communist USSR ever was. In Spain, especially in places like Catalonia, workers took direct control of factories, farms, and services, organizing themselves through federations of workers’ councils and practicing direct democracy. This wasn’t just state ownership or top-down control—it was genuine self-management and voluntary cooperation, embodying the stateless, classless ideals that communism truly aspires to.

By contrast, the USSR established a highly centralized, authoritarian state that concentrated power in a bureaucratic elite rather than dissolving it as Marx had envisioned. The Soviet system was marked by state socialism, where the state controlled the economy and political life, but the workers themselves had little real democratic control. The Spanish experience, though incomplete and ultimately crushed, showed that a revolution from below, based on direct worker participation and the abolition of hierarchical authority, is possible and more faithful to the original communist vision.

That said, the Spanish revolution was not perfect. The CNT and other anarchist groups faced enormous challenges, including internal divisions and external repression, and the revolution was eventually defeated by fascists and Stalinist forces. Still, it remains a powerful example of how communism can be practiced in a way that respects freedom, democracy, and workers’ self-management. This legacy inspires me and shapes my critique of state socialism and authoritarian models that claim the communist label but fall far short of its true promise.

#Communism#KarlMarx#Marxism
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴

I love communism because of its vision of a society based on equality, solidarity, and the abolition of class and state oppression. The idea of real communism, as envisioned by thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Karl Marx, inspires me deeply. It’s a world where people freely associate, manage their own workplaces, and share resources according to need. This ideal has never truly been realized in history, which makes it all the more important to keep striving for it.

At the same time, I am critical of state socialism and state capitalism, which have often been mistaken for communism. Systems like those in the USSR, China, and similar countries centralized power in authoritarian states rather than abolishing it. While Marx saw the dictatorship of the proletariat as a temporary phase, I find this problematic because, in practice, it has often led to entrenched bureaucracies and repression. My critique extends to Marxism and Marxism-Leninism for their acceptance of strong state control, which I believe contradicts the emancipatory goals of communism.

As an anarcho-syndicalist, I have great admiration for Rudolf Rocker’s approach, which emphasizes direct worker control, voluntary association, and the rejection of all hierarchical authority. Even so, I remain wary of any form of state socialism, as it risks replicating the same problems of domination and alienation. What I love about communism is its real form—the dream of a stateless, classless society where freedom and cooperation replace coercion and exploitation. That is the vision worth fighting for.

#Communism#KarlMarx#Marxism
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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin

Tipp: unseren Autor Christoph Jünke zu dem zu Unrecht fast vergessenen, marxistischen Theoretiker #LeoKofler in der Kommunisten Kneipe hören! Kofler reflektierte eine sozialistische Praxis, die sich weder im Reformismus verliert noch im Dogma erstarrt: open.spotify.com/episode/5wEiV
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🎧 Auf YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=wFKZFDBQJY
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📕 Jünkes tolles Kofler-Buch selber lesen: dietzberlin.de/interventionen

Sharepic der Kommunisten Kneipe im Interview mit Christoph Jünke zu »Leo Kofler — Ideologiekritik für die Praxis«
#marx#karlmarx#sozialismus
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kriykat

Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age
consortiumnews.com/2025/05/18/
The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination. By Chris Hedges in Cairo, Egypt ScheerPost It…
#Politics #Analysis #Bangladesh #Cambodia #Colonialism #Commentary #Egypt #Gaza #Genocide #History #HumanRights #India #IndigenousPeople #Israel #Libya #MiddleEast #Palestine #Racism #Rwanda #WarCrimes #BenjaminNetanyahu #Cairo #ChrisHedges #GeorgWilhelmFriedrichHegel #JosephConrad #KarlMarx #KingLeopoldIi #LouisAugusteBlanqui #Raffah

Consortium News · Chris Hedges: The New Dark AgeThe Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are  mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination. By Chris Hedges in Cairo, Egypt ScheerPost It is 200 miles from where I am in Cair
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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin

Mit Engels über „Wir müssen in diesem Land wieder mehr arbeiten“-Merz lachen #TGIF Den Zusammenhang von Profitgier des Kapitals und der Verelendung der lohnabhängigen Klasse arbeitete Marx’ Partner + BFF bereits im 19. Jahrhundert heraus. Gute Lektüre, spannend wie unterhaltsam geschrieben, dazu mit ausgewählten Original-Texten: dietzberlin.de/produkt/friedri

„Nichts ist fürchterlicher, als alle Tage von morgens bis abends etwas tun zu müssen, was einem widerstrebt.“ – Zitat von Friedrich Engels in „Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England“, zu lesen in den Marx-Engels-Werken, MEW 2, S. 346
#engels#friedrichengels#karlmarx
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Mess around Marx

Are we experiencing what Karl Marx had foreseen as re-occurrence of history as farce? A fascist, supremacist lunatic is realizing his plan to make a luxury holiday resort out of Gaza by utilizing the extermination mania of Zionist settler-colonialists against the indigenous inhabitants of their "holy land". Welcome to the 21st century! Is this the farce of 20th century history?
#KarlMarx #Marx #historyrepeating #fascism #supremacism #Zionism #Gaza #Gaza_genocide
mastodon.social/@engfromgaza/1

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