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“Toussaint, like Robespierre, destroyed his own Left-wing, and with it sealed his own doom. The tragedy was that there was no need for it. #Robespierre struck at the masses because he was bourgeois and they were communist. That clash was inevitable, and regrets over it are in vain. But between #Toussaint and his people, there was no fundamental difference of outlook or of aim. Knowing the race question for the political and social question that it was, he tried to deal with it in a purely political and social way. It was a grave error. #Lenin in his thesis to the Second Congress of the Communist International warned the white revolutionaries — a warning they badly need — that such has been the effect of the policy of #imperialism on the relationship between advanced and backward peoples that European Communists will have to make wide concessions to natives of colonial countries in order to overcome the justified prejudice which these feel toward all classes in the oppressing countries. Toussaint, as his power grew, forgot that. He ignored the black laborers, bewildered them at the very moment that he needed the most, and to bewilder the masses is to strike the deadliest of all blows at the #revolution.”
— C.L.R. #James, The Black Jacobins
#books #Haiti #politics #history #labor

#Poema #Lenin

Cantata a la muerte de Lenin - Bertold Brecht

1.

El día que murió Lenin,
un soldado de la guardia, según se cuenta,
les dijo a sus camaradas: Yo no quería
creerlo. Fui donde estaba
y le grité al oído: Ilich,
ahí vienen los explotadores.
Pero no se movió.
Entonces supe que de verdad había muerto.

2.

Si un hombre bueno se quiere ir,
¿cómo puedes detenerlo?
Haciéndole ver que es útil.

3.

¿Qué podría detener a Lenin?

4.

El soldado pensó:
Si escucha que llegan los explotadores,
por más enfermo que esté, se levantará.
Aunque sea en muletas.
Aunque sea cargado.
Pero se levantará y vendrá
a luchar contra los explotadores.

5.

El soldado sabía que Lenin
había peleado toda su vida
contra los explotadores.

6.

Después del asalto al Palacio de Invierno,el soldado quiso volver a su casa, porque las tierras de los latifundistas
estaban siendo repartidas.
Entonces, Lenin le dijo: Quédate,
todavía hay explotadores.
Y mientras haya explotación
hay que luchar contra ella.
Mientras tú existas,
tienes que luchar contra ella.

7.

Hay hombres que luchan un día y son buenos.
Hay otros que luchan un año y son mejores.
Hay quienes luchan muchos años y son muy buenos.
Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida:
Esos son los imprescindibles.

(1935)

"For those who, like Fidel, believe that a better world is possible and worth fighting for, #Lenin's ideas are more valid than ever. That's why it had great symbolism to remember the 155th birthday of the leader of the October Socialist Revolution today in the #Havana municipality of Regla.

-Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

W tytule eseju Lenina "Trzy źródła i trzy części składowe marksizmu" nie ma nic z fałszywej reklamy. Marksizm jest nowatorski, ale też nie powstał z niczego. Kontynuuje i rozwija historyczne dokonania myśli politycznej, ekonomicznej i filozoficznej.

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#audiobook #lenin #marksizm #socjalizm #ksiazki #edukacja

Since RFK Jr's anti-neurodiverse antics are trending, and today was #Lenin's birthday, now might be a good time to point out that Lenin was probably autistic. He was known to have food issues — his wife reported frustration that he didn't seem to have a favourite food, and when questioned whether he liked a dish he didn't seem to know how to answer. He had a speech impediment, and was known for being unnecessarily pointed and aggressive in his speech. He of course also had his hyperfixations (admittedly, hard not to as a revolutionary theorist).

As far as motor criteria, one really only needs to look at the many awkward ways in which he always sat, to the point that it was stereotyped heavily in Russian media during his life and following his death: One need only "sit like Lenin" in order to be pegged as imitating him. Usually, all twisted up, one leg over the other, his elbow up, maybe his chin in his hand, or some variation of all this.

We obviously can't make a diagnosis for a dead man, but I think it's safe to say that Comrade Lenin was also a comrade in neurodiversity, and yet another excellent rebuttal to recent hateful rhetoric around people with #autism.

"Lenin - Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı": [in TR - EN subs]

"The documentary, prepared by BSM, tells in general terms how the 1st socialist state in #history, the Soviet Union, was born by focusing on #Lenin, the most prominent architect of this revolution."

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Den Emigranten #Lenin lernte Angelica Balabanoff 1905 in Zürich kennen. Es war die Zeit, als der spätere Faschistenführer Benito Mussolini noch zum Freundeskreis der in Russland geb. Führerin der ital. Sozialisten gehörte. Balabanoff & Lenin verband ein spannungsvolles Verhältnis: Sie geriet mit ihm als Motor der sozialistischen Antikriegsbewegung Europas + Organisatorin der Zimmerwalder Konferenzen gg den WK I immer wieder aneinander: Sie wollte die Sozialistische Internationale erneuern…. /1

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… in deren Büro sie bis 1914 neben Rosa Luxemburg, August Bebel, Jean Jaures & Lenin mitgearbeitet hatte; Lenin wollte die Internationale spalten. Die Niederschlagung des Kronstädter Aufstands 1921 ließ sie, die einst durch Antonio Labriola zum Sozialismus gelangt war, mit Lenin brechen. Ohne Aufsehen ging Balabanoff ins Exil und verhielt sich bis zur Niederschlagung der ungarischen Revolution 1956 gegenüber der russischen Revolution loyal. Ihr Buch zu #Lenin lesen: dietzberlin.de/produkt/lenin-o /2/

Karl Dietz Verlag BerlinLENIN oder: Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel - Karl Dietz Verlag BerlinDen Emigranten Lenin lernte Angelica Balabanoff 1905 in Zürich kennen. Er war die Zeit, als der spätere Faschistenführer Benito Mussolini noch zum Freundeskreis der in Russland geborenen Führerin der italienischen Sozialisten gehörte. Angelica Balabanoff und Lenin verband ein spannungsvolles Verhältnis. Sie geriet mit ihm nicht zuletzt als Motor der sozialistischen Antikriegsbewegung Europas und als Organisatorin […]

"Bourgeois #democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of #freedom and #equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of #women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited …. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real 'freedom' as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital”

— V.I. #Lenin [born #otd], Soviet Power & The Status of Women (1919)

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Lenin (Remix)

Lenin stalks around the world.
Workers ought to spar him.
Neither soviets nor poverty impede.
His atrocities don't scar him.
Lenin stalks around the world.
All colors, he deceives them.
Language, just a carrier.
Naive ears, he aggrieves them.
Lenin stalks around the world.
The sun trapped in a jar.
Crushing workers and his pawns
There rises a red tsar.

[original by Langston Hughes]

#Lenin #FuckLenin #Leninism #Authoritarianism #Bolshevism #Anarchism